Ekahau announced that Ekahau RTLS customers can now use their iPhone or Android smart phones to extend location tracking capabilities to areas outside their defined wireless local area network. Customers may do so by leveraging their iPhone or Android handsets as ad hoc Wi-Fi hotspots to track assets in blind spots in their logistics or […]

Alien Technology announced the new Higgs 4 integrated circuit designed for enhancing RFID applications that include item-level tracking of apparel, electronics, sporting goods, luxury items, pharmaceutical drugs, spirits and tobacco. The Higgs 4 chip has a 64-bit UTID programmed at the factory and cannot be altered. This allows manufacturers to ensure the authenticity of it […]

Unisys has predicted a near future for air travel that sees in increase in self-service kiosks with embedded biometric authentication to make services such as passenger or baggage check-in quicker and easier. Unisys executives expect that, due to the continued increase in use of self-service kiosks in air travel in conjunction with the need for […]

ImageFIRST, provider of laundry services in the health care industry, has selected Fujitsu ultra-high frequency RFID tags and Positek RFID to improve garment identification and tracking at its Clearwater, Fla. facility. The laundry specialist will utilize Fujitsu WT-A511 ultra-high frequency RFID tags, which will give the company better visibility into its inventory and deliver benefits […]

TAGSYS announced the introduction of the Fashion Item Tracking System (FiTS), the company’s RFID-based end-to-end supply chain system for the apparel and fashion marketplaces. Leveraging RFID technology to provide visibility from manufacturing, through the distribution center and to the retail floor, the new system includes RFID technologies, materials, software and consulting services to satisfy the […]

Tego announced availability of the Tego Radion tag, a Gen 2 ultra-high frequency tag capable of surviving repeated gamma-sterilization and other radiation exposure commonly found in applications such as medical, life-science and food industries. Tego’s Radion tag is based on the similar technology found in Tego’s 32K chip designed for aerospace. Users can make decisions […]

Impinj announced the launch the Monza 5 tag chip and STP source tagging platform for implementing item-level RFID across retail markets and supply chains. The new Monza 5 tag chip is designed specifically for serializing items such as apparel, electronics, cosmetics, jewelry and pharmaceuticals. Monza 5 tag chips also include Impinj’s patented SafeWrite mechanism that […]