The Saskatchewan Government has launched a $5 million rebate program that will reimburse Saskatchewan livestock farmers up to 70 per cent of costs should they use to implement RFID tracking solutions. The program is available to cattle, bison, sheep, goat, hog and cervid producers, as well as veterinary clinics, meat processors, assembly yards, privately managed […]

Container Centralen (CC), a Danish company that rents shipping racks to produce growers, has chosen RF Code’s active RFID technology to track its shipping racks traveling throughout North America. Fluensee, a business partner of RF Code, will provide software for the tracking system, as well as implementation and support services, while RF Code will supply […]

Ohio-based RFIDTraxx LLC has announced the introduction of AssetTraxx, its new RFID asset tracking software. The AssetTraxx software enables the user the ability to monitor the movement of tagged equipment while giving him or her the flexibility to check assets in and out as needed. The system uses Ingecom active 2.45 GHz RFID tags combined […]

Scottish and Newcastle, a subsidiary of Heineken, has upgraded its InteliTap RFID keg tracking and management system to the recently launched VisibiliTy 4.0. In 2001 Scottish and Newcastle (S&N) became the first company in the UK to implement RFID tags on their containers. S&N currently owns 2.1 million kegs, all of which are included in […]

Xerox has developed a new ink made from silver that can be used to print circuits onto plastics, films and textiles, according to physorg.com. What separates the silver ink from its peers is its low melting point, which allows it to be printed onto plastics without melting the plastic itself. Most metals melt at about […]

Rutgers University, in partnership with Tagsource, has announced the launch of the Rutgers University RFID Research Center located on the Busch Campus in Piscataway, NJ. The new Research Center’s primary function is to provide insight into how RFID is being utilized across the globe to provide real business value. The center will also be used […]

The BloodCenter of Wisconsin (BCW) has won a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop RFID technology for the automatic identification, tracking, and status monitoring of blood and blood products across the entire transfusion medicine supply chain. The NIH grant will fund the development and testing of a prototype which […]