China boasts not just the world’s largest contactless smart card-enabled government ID card initiative, but a wide range of other wireless application projects in transportation ticketing, animal tagging, anti-counterfeiting, real-time location systems, asset tracking, e-ticketing, and contactless payments. According to a new study from ABI Research, the country’s total market revenue in 2008 will reach […]

Research and Markets has announced the addition of “RFID for Animals, Food and Farming 2008-2018” to their offering. Of the many uses for RFID, the food supply chain is set to rise dramatically to $5.8 billion spent on the systems plus the tags in 2017, becoming more important than any other application of RFID. In […]

Item-level RFID entrepreneur TAGSYS announced that Portuguese fashion retailer, Throttleman, has received the ‘Best Enterprise Solution’ award from the EHI Retail Institute. EHI, the 500-member global retail trade association, presented the award to Throttleman for its successful deployment of a supply chain solution built upon TAGSYS’ UHF RFID tunnel. Integrating an RFID infrastructure has enabled […]

iDTRONIC, a supplier of RFID hardware, today presented the new HF RFID Antenna Gate EzMultiX at CeBIT 2008 in Hanover. This high-performance antenna and multiplex Longe Range Reader is particularly well suited for integration into modern Access Control Applications. iDTRONIC’s EzMultiX ISO 15693 LR antenna set is a high-performance solution especially designed for modern RFID […]

Research and Markets () has announced the addition of “RFID for Airports and Airlines 2008-2018” to their offering What are the competitive advantages of using RFID in the air-travel industry? According to Research and Markets’ latest report, “RFID for Airports and Airlines 2008-2018,” the technology is an extremely powerful enabler in airports and aircraft, serving […]

Sure, pilots are necessary growing pains of any maturing markets. But with RFID, we’re starting to see quicker turnarounds to implementation, says Mike Liard, one of ABI Reserch’s analysts who follows the market. From simple closed-loop applications such as security/access control in an office building to complex open-loop applications such as item-level tracking, RFID technology […]

The European Commission is drafting new laws to govern the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, Supply Chain Review reports (via Reuters). Draft guidelines call for RFID tags to be “deactivated at the point of sale to protect the privacy of purchasers.” We’re keeping tabs on this one so stay tuned!