The Ford Motor Company used the spotlight of a halftime commercial during last night’s Bowl Championship Series championship game to showcase a new RFID application available for some of its vehicles. The application, called Tool Link, is the product of a collaboration between Ford, toolmaker DEWALT, and RFID developer ThingMagic. Tool Link enables users to […]

A partnership of several major players in China’s RFID market will host the “China International RFID Technologies and Applications Show” in June. The show will feature more than 100 exhibitors from around the world, representing the RFID industry from manufacturers to end users, spread out over 5,000 square meters of exhibition space in the Shenzen […]

Arada Systems, a developer of WLAN software, has announced the launch of its Loc-Air technology platform for RFID and other technologies. The system, which leverages Atheros’ ROCm technology for mobile WLAN, offers a 802.11a/b/g-based, low-power, wireless design for a range of applications including security, medical and automotive tolling. The Loc-Air platform is designed consume extremely […]

Alcatel-Lucent’s Tikitag system, first announced last fall, is now available in India. The RFID-enabled systems offers a way to link offline objects to the digital world. The Tikitag system uses mailing-label sized RFID tags which can be stuck to objects or papers. The tags contain data that, when scanned by the system’s reader, leads the […]

By Kurt Bell, vice president Sales & Marketing, Jolly Technologies Without a doubt we have seen an increased interest in applications and requests from customers that would benefit from RFID, contactless and ultra high frequency technologies. We have also seen many specialty entry/exit tracking markets where the implementation of these technologies provides a faster way […]

RFID solutions distributor BlueStar has announced the addition of Zebra Technologies’ P4T and RP4T RFID-enabled Mobile Thermal-Transfer Printers to its product line. Zebra touts the printers as an RFID-enabled mobile thermal-transfer printers. The portable printers are designed for indoor and outdoor applications in the government, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, and mobile field service sectors.   

Another device joins the recent parade of products from China’s Daily RFID. The newest addition to the Daily RFID family is a long range reader intended for use in car access control solutions. The new DL910 reader has a read range of up to 15 meters and supports multiple protocols including ISO 18000-6C (EPC Gen […]