Checkpoint Systems Inc. has announced it will acquire OATSystems Inc. in an all-cash transaction. Checkpoint Systems plans to operate OATSystems as a division of its company, continuing to use and develop the OATSystems brand and software platform while also retaining the company’s senior management. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. OATSystems provides software solutions […]

Canadian consulting firm RFID ProSolutions has teamed with Chicago-based RFID manufacturer RFID Solutions to create a multi-platform authentication program for the Canadian market. The technology platform, Trusted eSentry Security (TES), combines facial recognition, RFID and other options to create a security product aimed at the aerospace, drug manufacturing and finance industries. The standard version of […]

As kidnapping rates rise in Mexico, one firm is taking the anxiety of the upper class into a business opportunity. Security firm Xega is offering RFID implants to help locate kidnap victims, and business is apparently booming. Xega’s system centers on an RFID implant injected into the client’s arm, which transmits a signal to an […]

Texas-based McLane Advanced Technologies LLC (MAT) has announced its purchase of another Texas firm, the software company RFID Systems Inc. MAT, a provider of information technology and logistics services to government and commercial customers, has not disclosed the terms of the sale, beyond a plan to move all of RFID Systems operations to its Temple, […]

Greg Oester, the president of Alanco/TSI Prism Inc., has offered a clarification of reports last month that the company had been awarded a contract by security systems consulting firm the Weil Group to design an RFID-based inmate tracking system for a prison complex located in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. “Our current contractual relationship with the Weil […]

According to a story in today’s Wall Street Journal, Proctor & Gamble is testing an RFID-based system that gives its in-store marketing efforts a personal touch. In a Metro Extra retail store in Germany, certain P&G products are labeled with RFID tags. When the tagged product is selected by a customer, a digital screen connected […]

RFID tag is swallowed to enable tracking of health and position Two-years ago at the Four Days Marches of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, an event where 40,000 participants walk 20 to 30 miles a day, two marchers died because of the warm weather during the event. Sadly, it’s become increasingly common for individuals participating in […]