To provide real-life conditions for evaluating and optimizing RFID applications NXP Semiconductors announced the opening of the RFID Applications and System Center in Tianjin, China. Within the center, NXP has constructed a variety of environments for trialing different RFID applications, including electronic certificates, secure payments and energy monitoring. The new facility accommodates to label customers, […]

Arbor Technology announced the unveiling of a new tablet PC that offers dual cameras, an RFID reader, and the ability to survive a four-foot plummet to the earth’s surface. Arbor’s Gladius G0710S comes with a 1.1 GHz Intel Atom processor and 4 GB of flash storage, and an RFID reader that meets ISO 15693/14443A/14443B compliance. […]

PositiveID announced that it has filed a provisional patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering an interface that employs radio frequency communication for checking glucose levels. The provisional patent covers the use of radio frequency technology to help sense and communicate changes in glucose levels in the blood through an electromechanical drive-based […]

Sirit announced that it has signed a five-year agreement with MIKOH for the supply of Sirit’s RFID technology for the Government of Thailand’s upcoming electronic vehicle registration systems project. Over the next five years the Thailand project is expected to utilize hundreds of Sirit ID5100 AVI readers along with more than 30 million Sirit RFID […]

Lufthansa Technik, a global provider of aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, has been successfully using UPM Raflatac’s RFID technology in tracking aircraft components for the past two years. Lufthansa Technik Logistik, the logistics service provider of LHT, has been attaching RFID tags to documents accompanying components as they are removed, serviced or repaired, […]

Pethealth Inc. has entered in a four-year partnership agreement with Allflex USA, granting Pethealth with exclusive access to Allflex’s RFID microchip technology for companion animal distribution through the United States and Canada. The companion animal microchip is a rice grain-sized transponder that has a number burnt on it which can be read at a particular […]

An Oxfam store in Manchester, UK is trying out a system that will enable people to attach stories to the objects that they donate using RFID tags, according to a Wired news article. When a person donates an item to the store they are asked to share a brief narrative about the item into a […]