The Apollo Hospital Chennai will provide each patient with an Ekahau T301B badge tag that will track their movement within the 30,000 square foot hospital, as well as their current location and time spent there. Ekahau Inc. teamed with India’s systems integrator ICEGEIN to deploy the Ekahau real time locating system at Apollo Hospital Chennai, […]

Proxima and Phase IV Engineering announced a partnership in an effort to produce high-frequency RFID enabled sensing products, based on the new Melexis MLX90129 integrated circuit design. The MLX90129 consists of an internal temperature sensor, two external sensor ports with differential inputs to accommodate a wide range of sensor types, and a standard ISO15693 high […]

By the end of June the country of Kenya will require importers, exporters, clearing agents and transporters to comply with a new regulation requiring use of electronic tracking devices with all cargo shipments. Hi-G-Tek, Inc., a provider of wireless sensing solutions that monitor and capture real time location, security, and condition information about cargo and […]

EarthSearch Communications announced the launch of an intelligent GPS that communicates wirelessly with passive and active RFID devices – coined the LogiBoxx. LogiBoxx enables real-time tracking and management of individual assets by wirelessly communicating with passive RFID readers, LogiBoxx Certified active RFID tags, and proprietary electronic radio frequency seals and locks. LogiBoxx uses its built-in […]

The Halton Borough Council is moving forward and expanding a waste elimination scheme that provides incentives for those who recycle, using RFID tagged recycle bins. The expansion comes following a six-month pilot across 10,000 households. Following the results, which showed higher recycling rates, an additional 37,000 homes will soon have the option of participating in […]

Essen RFID, a Mumbai headquartered RFID provider, announced the opening of a new manufacturing facility at Baddi Industrial Town in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan District. The new 3,500 square foot facility will be home to the company’s manufacturing of custom ultra-high frequency RFID tags, such as the Metallica tag and the Acqua tag. The company’s Metallica […]

Motorola announced that Cox Industries, a producer of pressure treated wood products for distribution to building supply dealers and specialty distributors, is using an RFID solution from itself and Stark RFID. Motorola RD5000 mobile RFID readers will work in combination with Stark RFID’s Hacktrac work-in-progress inventory management system to enable the company to gain a […]