Wal-Mart’s five-year-old mandate for all its suppliers to adopt RFID technology has not been an overwhelming success. Just a small percentage of the mega-retailer’s 60,000 suppliers are tagging their crates and pallets as requested; on the receiving end, just over a third of Wal-Mart’s approximately 3,600 stores have implemented the technology. The plan’s failures can […]

Arizona-based Alanco Technologies, Inc., has been selected by the Missouri Department of Corrections to supply RFID tracking systems for five probation and parole early release facilities. The contract follows an order in 2006 for two similar systems. Alanco’s TSI PRISM RFID officer safety and inmate tracking system is designed to assist in managing inmate movement, […]

Earlier this week, Supply Chain Digest offered an in-depth look at aerospace giant Airbus’s massive RFID project, the largest of its sort ever attempted. Today, they offer an illustrated version. Click here for a graphic of the project.   

In racing, photo finishes don’t come cheap: high speed cameras can cost upwards of $25,000, making them impractical for all but the highest levels of most motor sports. RFID tags can cost just a few dollars per competitor – some marathon officials are already using them to time their runners – but they are hard […]

Veratag, a New York-based start-up, says that a decades-old technology used in atomic microscopes can be adapted to establish a new level of security for RFID application. Micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) have been used for about 20 years by scientists measuring molecular structures. Now a new technology based on them, MEMSflakes, could replace traditional RFID […]

Intermec has announced that the IF61 Smart Reader is validated as a remote platform to host IBM data capture applications. The Smart Reader allows customers to deploy RFID without a stand-alone middleware PC or separate controller device for each RFID reader or each physical location. The Intermec IF61 provides users of IBM-based RFID applications the […]

Earlier this month, IBM and OATSystems announced they would be providing software to Airbus for what they called the largest RFID project in the history of the manufacturing industry Airbus is now offering more details on what will be involved in their aggressive end-to-end restructuring of the manufacturing process. The transformation is expected to take […]