Unisys Corp. said Monday that it received a contract worth at least $37.2 million to work on a system that will allow for RFID-based passports, The Philadelphia Business Journal reported earlier. The Blue Bell, Pa., company said the work is for the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. In addition to reading RFID passports, the system would […]

With a successful nine-month test of its RFID-powered shopping carts at two New Jersey ShopRite supermarkets completed, MediaCart is just about to roll out a second, larger pilot that will incorporate a number of functions designed to help shoppers save time and money, RFID Journal reports. Carts feature integrated, battery-powered video monitors and ThingMagic EPC […]

InkSure Technologies Inc., a leading provider of covert machine-readable security solutions (“CMRT”) for the detection of counterfeiting, fraud and diversion announced it has been selected to present a technology update on its patented SARcode(TM), a new “chipless” symbology for low-cost RFID applications at the RFID Smart Labels USA 2008 Conference in Boston. The Conference, which […]

In two days more than 2,000 Washington state residents have signed up for appointments to receive the new enhanced driver’s license. The program was introduced on Tuesday. The ID card will not only serve as a driver’s license for residents but also be a passport card that will enable them to cross land and sea […]

EM Microelectronic, the semiconductor company of the Swatch Group, has shipped over 250 Million Tag-Talks-Only (TTO) UHF RFID chips, primarily for the manufacturing of intelligent labels for garment tagging in the fashion industry. Marks & Spencer’s RFID initiative in apparel is known to be the world’s largest item-level tagging project and thereby establishes EM’s UHF […]

General Dynamics Corp received a potential five-year, $99.3 million contract to issue passport cards for the U.S. State Department. Unisys Corp. also received a potential five-year, $62 million contract to provide technology to read the cards at border crossings. Each contract has one base year and four one-year options. General Dynamics will issue the passport […]

Ospedale Treviglio-Caravaggio, located in Treviglio, Italy, has deployed an RFID system to track its patients as they are admitted to the hospital’s emergency wing and then move through the facility, receiving medical services, RFID Journal reports. With an RFID system provided by Softwork, hospital personnel can immediately locate a patient. Emergency patient management has become […]