In a £3.2 million project funded through the UK government, scientists from QinetiQ and the University of Exeter are studying the wings of butterflies to develop new anti-counterfeit RFID technologies. The surface of a butterfly’s wing controls light to produce colorful iridescence through subtle changes in size and shape of tiny scales. By manipulating electromagnetic […]

Toronto-based Zerofootprint is developing a new device for the home called the TalkingPlug that uses RFID technology to track how much energy a given appliance is using. The device is plugged into a wall outlet first, and then an appliance is plugged in on top of it. An RFID chip installed in TalkingPlug records the […]

Atmel Corporation has released its new ATA5575M1 transponder, a low frequency OTP (One Time Programmable) chip designed for next-generation access control systems. Application areas include: hotel rooms, engineering departments, offices, time recording systems and parking lots, as well as customer loyalty and membership cards. The new 0.9 square millimeter transponders feature trimmed 250- or 330-pF […]

Sirit and 3M Brazil have collaborated with Dbtrans to introduce an electronic payment system for commercial truck and passenger tolling in the state of Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil. The RFID-enabled application will feature passive 915 MHz ISO 18000 6C technology supported by Sirit’s IDentity 5100 (ID5100) reader system. 3M Brazil will provide in-country technical […]

GE Global Research has just won a $2 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to develop wearable RFID sensors to alert people to the presence of environmental chemical agents in the air. The sensor could also be used to analyze a person’s breath. Simply breathing on the sensor could potentially […]

Visonic Technologies, an RFID solutions provider for the health care industry, has released its enhanced Elpas Active RFID/RTLS Reusable Tag for tracking newborns in maternity wards and neonatal care departments. The tag’s dual technology transmitter emits both UHF RF and infra-red (IR) messages that can be used to determine the location of the infant to […]

DAILY RFID has released a new “user-friendly” 125KHz RFID Disc tag for asset tracking, library management, logistics and anti-counterfeiting. This 125KHz Low Frequency RFID Disc tags offer a read up to 10cm and are self-adhesive, waterproof, dust-proof and resistant to immersion in salt water, alcohol and oil. The readable/writable tags are available with standard chips […]