German retailer Metro Group has reported a 54 percent boost in its RFID tagged sales. Metro, worth $68 million, is the world’s fifth largest retailer with stores across Europe, Asia, and North Africa. Gerd Wolfram, Metro’s IT office chief, has noted that using RFID for inventory tracking has yielded a “significant reduction of shipping mistakes […]

Sirit has announced the release of the 3.0 Firmware upgrade for its INfinity 510 (IN510) UHF reader. The upgrade introduces “Stray Tag Elimination” technology (STE), which allows the reader to differentiate between tags moving through a portal or an exit separately from stationary tags in the vicinity of the portal. “This feature is going to […]

Motorola has released its new MC3100 series of mid-range mobile computers designed for key-based and touch-screen applications, such as price/stock management, inventory control, returns processing, shipping and receiving, baggage tracking and asset management. The MC3100 series is equipped with the Marvell XScale PXA320 624 MHz processor, the most powerful XScale processor. Additionally, each new computer […]

Plexidor has developed a new RFID-enabled doggie door that lets your pet in while keeping unwanted guests out. The door is designed to automatically open when your pet approaches thanks to an RFID “key” tag affixed to its collar. Only pets outfitted with the corresponding tag can enter, and so other critters that could just […]

TagMaster North America, a Tacoma, Wash. provider of long-range RFID systems for automatic vehicle identification, has announced its support for HID Global’s Corporate 1000 Program, established to provide access control users with a 35-bit card data format developed and maintained for each individual end-user organization. Customers aiming to standardize on a single card solution within […]

Markes International Ltd. has launched its new RFID-enabled thermal desorption (TD) instrument for gas chromatography (GC). The new TD-100 has been designed for the sampling and analysis of trace toxic and odorous chemicals (VOC and SVOC) in air/gas and materials. The instrument is used in materials emissions testing (for example, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations), […]

Bio-Trak has launched a new system that wirelessly and automatically tracks the temperature and location of blood and organs en route to the hospital. Under the system all items are fitted with RFID tags that report ambient and core temperature, as well as GPS location. The system automatically creates an audit trail which can be […]