DAILY has announced the release of a series of hygienic RFID tags for tracking large animal livestock such as cattle, pigs and sheep. DAILY’s features tag is the Ear Tag, a passive RFID tag made of bacteria-resistant polyurethane to reduce the incidence of animal infection. It is affixed to the ear of the animal and […]

IBM and Implanet, a manufacturer of implantable medical devices have teamed up to develop BeepN’Track, a new service that traces the movement of Implanet’s products–including knee and hip implants–across its supply chain to hospitals. The BeepN’Track service uses RFID to track medical devices from Implanet to hospitals. Prior to shipping, Implanet affixes an RFID tag […]

The Premier Health Alliance has just selected AeroScout’s RFID health care asset tracking solution as the exclusive solution for Premier’s 2,200 member hospitals and 63,000 health care sites. The AeroScout RFID solution, already used in hundreds of U.S. hospitals, provides visibility of assets, patients and staff throughout all hospital departments. AeroScout’s health care solutions include […]

Sirit has received the go ahead from Autopistas Urbanas S.A. (AUSA), the administrators of the Buenos Aires highway network, to install their electronic toll collection system in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The system will use 90 Sirit IDentity 5100 readers working in conjunction with AUSA legacy tags. Approximately 80 lanes will be outfitted with Sirit’s system […]

The British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) has teamed up with Dunlop to implement a new RFID-enabled system that ensures that all BTCC cars are using the correct tires at all times. The BTCC now uses Dunlop tires equipped with RFID tags that are scanned every time a car makes a pit stop. The tire information […]

In a unique approach to deaf education, two members of Southeastern Louisiana University’s education faculty are using RFID technology to assist young children learning American Sign Language (ASL). Assistant professors Robert Hancock and Becky Sue Parton have received a $360,000 grant from the Department of Education to develop their “physical world hyperlinking” teaching system, a […]

Dayton, Ohio’s new downtown technology park, known as Tech Town, is celebrating the grand opening of the campus’ first building, the Creative Technology Accelerator (CTA). The CTA will house the Dayton RFID Convergence Center, as well as the Institute for Development and Commercialization of Advanced Sensor Technology (IDCAST), and Weston Solutions. Tech Town took ten […]