UTSA CAMLS Holds Radio Frequency Identification Workshop

The University of Texas at San Antonio's Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean Systems (CAMLS) ... or transponders. RFID tags are objects that can be applied to or incorporated into a product, animal ... Association and held a one-day Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Workshop. RFID is an automatic [more...]

Date: 2008-06-13 19:03:36

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RFID - More Interesting Than You Realised

RFID RFID technology is something that most people would claim to know nothing about ... within a few feet of an RFID device right now. RFID, short for Radio Frequency Identification ... system uses RFID as does the similar Japanese Octopus card. The RFID chips embedded in Oyster [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 19:03:21

Tagged and tracked at the toll booth

Are you one of those folks who loves the convenience of zipping through the toll plaza with one of those electronic toll-paying systems like FasTrak ... toll devices use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to broadcast information ... booth can receive it. Strangers with the right transponder reader walking through a parking lot [more...]

Date: 2008-08-07 19:20:38

Protecting Privacy of Children, Rights of Parents Unfinished in California

By Zack Kaldveer Consumer Federation of California In 2005 a tiny school district in Northern California inadvertently ignited a statewide debate over the appropriate use of modern technologies in the school system. The technology in question was Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, which the district had embedded in student badges... [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 13:25:39

Boston Tea Party 2008

The Boston Tea Party 2008 is happening this weekend in Boston.Tickets prices are $17.76 (what else?) ... and last year’s key note speakerDr. Katherine Albrecht who is leading the fight to stop RFID tagging and chipping. A new consumer goods tracking system called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is poised [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 15:31:00

Chip Implants To Avoid Identity Frauds? By Mary Wise

Chip Implants To Avoid Identity Frauds? By Mary Wise Posted by: admin In: ... . However it is said that its pay system, based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology ... of the owner’s interests? Not So New RFID tags are becoming popular, especially with those companies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 04:55:12

The Big Hog Daddy Tri-Glide Hauler

2009 Ford F-450 Released just in time to haul your new Harley-Davidson Tri-Glide Classic to motorcycle events, ... features embedded in the truck.  Most notable is the “Tool Link”, a Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) asset tracking system developed with DEWALT, the power tool dudes, and ThingMagic, experts [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 18:23:47

Real Time Location Systems

Posted by: Paul DeBeasi Introduction Real-time location systems (RTLS) have been around for years ... of technology as described below: §  RFID: Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems consist of low-cost electronic tags that can be interrogated by electronic readers. In most RFID environments [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 18:37:02

Response to JAMA article on RFID

rf-logo-finalwtag.jpg The RFID study mentioned in JAMA does not apply to the RTLS technology deployed by RadarFind ... ), you need a very powerful reader to energize/read the tags. To compare this to the RadarFind system ... the likely scenario of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers causing anomalous behavior in electronic [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 23:03:58

VeriChip Corp. (CHIP): Locating and Tracking Potential for Investors

VeriChip (CHIP) is a maker of radio frequency identification systems (RFID) ... . VeriChip’s main competitors are Axcess International Inc. and closely-held Precision Dynamics Corporation ... , which carries the implantable chips used in the RFID devices. About twice the length of a grain [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 14:28:16

InfoLogix Launches HealthTrax 2.0 to Help Hospitals Automate Time-Consuming Asset and Patient Tracking

#fullpost{display:inline;} InfoLogix, Inc. , a leading technology provider of enterprise mobility and advanced wireless asset tracking solutions for ... network of small RFID transmitter tags, HealthTrax 2.0 pinpoints the location of specific assets ... draws upon sophisticated Real-Time Location System (RTLS) and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 01:58:00

Radio-Frequency ID Technology Takes Off

Federal agencies have deployed radio frequency identification technology to manage their assets, ... and transmitted over a distance of about 300 feet. Passive RFID tags have a shorter range, about 30 feet ... fast a letter moves through the international postal system. RFID technology uses readers that beam [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 11:20:19

St. Louis Beacon: Public Libraries

Free for all: Public libraries are a treasure trove, especially during economic tough times Written by Kathie Sutin, ... branches use RFID, a radio frequency identification system. “That’s the higher tech means of counting [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 21:17:37

Bicycle Blog Roundup, 11/11/08

Yes, by the way, starting with last week, I’ve dropped the “news media” part of the roundup, and just focused on blogs. Yay! Tech-Enabled Bike Sharing Rolls Into North America, The Huffington Post Now RFID (radio frequency identification) tags and Smart Card payment systems have created a third generation of bike share [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 20:24:41

40% Productivity Gain for GEL-AL of Turkey

June 3, 2008, Morgan Hill, California – Alien Technology, a leader in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) ... totes travel throughout the various production stations. STS, a leading RFID systems integrator in Turkey, equipped each tote with an Alien® high-performance UHF/EPC compliant M-tag (inlay), which [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 19:48:08

Painted on micro sensors

Tiny radios embedded in paint could be used to pick up sound, ... Systems, started exploring this technology based on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in 2002, and filed patents in 2005. ‘People complain that most of the cost in manufacturing RFID tags [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 08:10:11

Alanco Technologies, Inc. (ALAN) Quarterly Sales Up 32%

Alanco Technologies, Inc.,(NASDAQ:ALAN) announced today that preliminary results for first quarter FY 2009 sales jumped 32%, ... TSI PRISM Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tracking system. Robert R. Kauffman, Alanco ... Alanco acquired Star Trak Systems in 2006, a provider of GPS tracking and wireless asset management [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 19:06:13

Two Historic RFID Regulation Bills—Important to Our Privacy and Safety--Await Governor Schwarzenegger’s Decision

Zack-Kaldveer.gif By Zack Kaldveer Consumer Federation of California Tiny computer chips called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ... and other government issued cards without our knowledge. These “human identification systems” pose clear information security risks that can threaten individual privacy and public safety. RFID chips allow [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 12:06:05

RF One of Today’s Top Ten Design Skills

So, you want to be an electronics engineer, do you? Well, according to John Edwards ( ... , coupled with Bluetooth, radio-frequency identification (RFID), and other radio-enabled technologies ... of RF circuit design, particularly in cellular technologies, such as GSM and CDMA, and wireless systems [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 00:51:14

VeriChip Corporation Selected by Microsoft to Offer Personal Health Record through Microsoft HealthVault

Market Watch | VeriChip Corporation, a provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, today announced that its personal health record used in conjunction with its VeriMed Health Link system will be accessible through Microsoft [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 20:47:00

Radiator 09: Exploits in the Wireless City

I’m bound for Nottingham later this week for the Raditor Festival and Symposium, ... will be networked in a complex system of information exchange. Based on technologies such as RFID (radio frequency identification tags), our environment would turn into a space of “ambient intelligence” [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:39:09

VeriChip Receives Notice Of Removal From Nasdaq

Some will view this as a victory against the selling and marketing of human implantable chips ... ”) (NASDAQ: CHIP), a provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems for healthcare [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 09:40:07

Secured Digital wins $1.76 million contract from New Alliance China - Computer Business Review

The contract is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2009. According to Secured Digital, its EyStar Warehouse Management System (EWMS) integrates bar code, radio frequency identification (RFID) and WiFi data collection to track inventory ... [more...]

Date: 2008-08-22 05:33:42

New hot stock options

Security systems provider companies witnessed a sudden action in terms of both orders/enquiries as well as stock changes in the last 3 days ... and internationally. It also offers Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) solutions, smart cards ... , library management, application tracking, vehicle tracking, warehouse management, work-in-progress [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 03:15:56

Pervasive Open Infrastructure

Pervasive computing provides a means of broadening and deepening the reach of information technology (IT) in society ... for pervasive systems. They are collected together into a middleware platform, an intermediary between sensors ... the same information. Location may be sensed directly from RFID (radio frequency identification [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 18:01:00

Riopel and Benn Honored

CHL Press Release Toronto, ON – The Canadian Hockey League today announced that Nicola Riopel of the Moncton Wildcats is the ADT CHL Goaltender of ... , radio frequency identification (RFID) and integrated systems. ADT's web site addresses [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 22:46:24

Security

I have heard that a primary school in Japan is testing a system to improve the security of students and also give their parents peace of mind. A radio frequency identification tag carried by each student sends a signal to receivers at school gates, and a computer shows when each student enters or leaves. The system can automatically send [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 15:17:24

RFID Software Guide 101

RFID is the abbreviated form of Radio Frequency Identification ... manufacturing, into a dog collar etc. An RFID system can range up to 90 feet. Unlike barcode ... software. For instance lately technology company Intermec has created a new kind of intelligent RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 13:34:45

Study Tackles Labeling Errors

With a long-held commitment to continuously improving the quality and safety of patient care, ... of specimen-labeling errors.” This study used a technology, radio-frequency identification (RFID), to track ... Mayo Clinic researchers are recommending a new technologically-advanced labeling system aimed [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 23:11:01

Study Tackles Labeling Errors

Study Tackles Labeling Errors With a long-held commitment to continuously improving the quality and safety of patient care, ... of specimen-labeling errors.” This study used a technology, radio-frequency identification (RFID ... Mayo Clinic researchers are recommending a new technologically-advanced labeling system aimed [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 23:11:01

Study: RFID Tags May Scramble Hospital Equipment

A new study is raising questions over how radio frequency identification chips could be interacting with hospital equipment ... . They also power many cities' transit payment systems and are used for animal identification and store theft [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 18:49:31

Amish Law and Order

In the criminal justice system, the people are entertained by two separate yet equally important groups: the Amish, who presume their own guilt, ... farmers in Michigan claiming RFID chips required on cattle "are a mark of the beast." The Amish farmers claim Michigan regulations requiring them to use radio frequency identification devices [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 03:59:00

The Coming Computational Environment

just by walking down the street you could be subject to a personal biometric system, ... are embedded and merged seamlessly everywhere in the environment. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-06-07 19:08:58

RFID for Safer CT Contrast Agent Delivery

Covidien Imaging, a subsidiary of Mallinckrodt, is releasing a new RFID (radio frequency identification) ... of an RFID tracker chip within the injection syringe, and a communication system that writes dosing information into the chip during fill-ups. From the press release: The RFID-enabled system creates [more...]

Date: 2008-07-30 21:34:29

Area Manufacturers benefit from UTSA laboratory

By Kris Rodriguez (photo) Public Affairs SpecialistUTSA 1604 Campus The UTSA Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Systems (CAMLS), housed in the College of Engineering, recently partnered with the San Antonio Manufacturers Association to conduct a radio frequency identification (RFID) workshop. Click on the link for the rest [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 11:11:29

Prevent Auto Theft & Home Burglary with Affordable Anti Theft Devices

#fullpost{display:inline;}J.D ... System includes a small radio frequency transceiver hidden in one of up to 20 places in our vehicle and has a unique code that is tied to the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). When we report [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 05:13:00

Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws

This is our 6,000th post on Wilson's Blogmanac. Thanks to Baz le Tuff for tipping me off about this story about RFID, ... before. The IDTechEx report Active RFID predicts that sales of active RFID systems, including tags ... s boom times ahead Sales of technologies based on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification, the automatic [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 21:45:34

Walgreens' DC Deploys RFID Without a Safety Net

Walgreens has fully integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) technology into its warehouse operations at the company's distribution facility in Anderson, S.C., according to RFID Update. Walgreens has been running the system since last year but only recently [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 15:00:00

Barbara Mejia on "Guerrilla’s Merger into Army? : Unfortunate!"

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Date: 2008-12-22 07:33:57

How Do Radio Tagged Cards Work?

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems have three components: a small silicon microchip attached to an antenna; a reader and a computer database. The RFID tags themselves can be as small as half a millimeter square, the size of a tiny seed. Some are thin enough to be embedded in paper. Most tags today [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 15:54:58

Buyer Beware: Clothing You Buy May Inform On You

technology to shadow customers and record their every move Management strategists are touting a miraculous new computer system that promises to ... radio frequency identification, or RFID, a 21st-century digital marvel that involves a grain-sized ... , packaged, sold or shipped. A new believer in RFID technology is Italian clothier Benetton Group [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 13:10:26

VeriChip Corp. (CHIP) & RECEPTORS LLC Announce Successful Phase 1 Completion of Implantable Glucose Sensing RFID Microchip

VeriChip Corporation and its partner in product development, RECEPTORS LLC, ... develops, markets, and sells radio frequency identification systems (RFID). These systems are used ... said today that they have made an important advancement in the design of a radio frequency [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 13:42:24

MIT kids take on the MBTA

A transit agency in New England has filed a federal lawsuit to stop three Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates from publicly ... . Although one method uses magnetic strip technology and the other radio frequency identification ... s electronic payment systems. The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) also named MIT in the 17-page [more...]

Date: 2008-08-10 01:22:58

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