Toronto-based Autologic Innovations, a provider of automotive management solutions and software, has teamed with NCR corporation to create an RFID-enabled inventory management system for automotive sales lots. The system combines Autologic’s Track-A-Lot software system with NCR’s EasyPoint Advantage kiosk to offer Canadian auto dealerships on-demand inventory and location updates as well as simplify the test […]

NXP Semiconductors has launched a new low frequency RFID tag, the HITAG µ, aimed at the growing livestock tracking market, among other applications. NXP touts the tag’s long read distances and quick programming times as leaders in the industry. The new tag is first passive low-frequency tag on the animal tracking market to offer anti-collision […]

The first U.S. land border crossings using RFID and other information technology to capture, read and analyze traveler and vehicle information have opened in Blaine, Wash., and Nogales, Ariz. These sites, equipped by Unisys to process secure Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative RFID-enabled travel documents which include U.S. passport cards and alternative documents, such as enhanced […]

For corporate bigwigs whose executive washrooms have gone high tech, SkyRFID now offers the perfect accessory. Their new Executive Key Holder is made of chrome steel and brown leather, and addresses all levels of physcial access control solutions, with both a spring-loaded swivel for keys and a Gen 2 RFID inlay. The key holder measures […]

The Ontario legislature voted in favor of a low enabling the use of Passport Cards and enhanced driver licenses to cross the U.S./Canada border. But the law is not without its share of controversy, according to a news report from The Toronto Star. The new travel documents are an alternative to the traditional passport books. […]

Traxxec Inc., a specialist in RFID-enabled packaging solutions, has entered into a licensing agreement with consumer packaging giant Rexam Plc. to provide a line of RFID-enabled products for the pharmaceutical industry. The RF bottle resulting from the partnership will meet guidelines for RFID-enabling packaging recently set forth by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Traxxec […]

RFID developer ThingMagic Inc. has secured a strategic investment and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel, a strategic investment firm linked to the U.S. intelligence community. With the support provided by this agreement, ThingMagic plans to expand the development of its RFID reader and sensor technology to facilitate the integration of RFID and sensors into a […]