AIDC Centre Becomes Knowledge Transfer Centre
The Automatic Identification & Data Capture Centre for Wales, ... , and radio frequency identification (RFID). The technologies are used from everything from animal ... with an exceptional opportunity to rationalise and improve the support for collaboration between academia [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 09:48:38
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"Enhanced" Licence May Enhance Privacy and Security Risks
"Enhanced" Licence May Enhance Privacy and Security Risks: Michael Geist “This week the Ontario legislature will resume debate on Bill 85, ... requirements for entry into the country (passports are now required at most border crossings ... , which will embed new technologies including a radio frequency identification device (RFID) within [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 01:33:48
Ontario's "enhanced driver's licence"
http://www.infowars.com/?p=6018 Michael GeistThe StarNovember 17, 2008 This week, the Ontario legislature will resume debate on Bill 85, ... . As the U.S. increased identity card requirements for entry into the country (passports are now required at most ... technologies including a radio frequency identification device (RFID) within the card, is the [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 02:27:00
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
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
RFID Sniffer: Sniffs out tagged objects
I thought only my dog Brownie had great sniffing power but here is RFID Sniffer which doesn't sniff bones ... : Shaw selects ODIN technologies to design and install a radio frequency identification (RFID ... can detect 13.56 MHz RFID tags deployed generally in case of bank cards, loyalty cards etc. The kit [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 03:57:34
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
MIT and the City of Copenhagen
I've had a few links about this sent to me, but I haven't figured out how to blog about it. So I'll just chuck up a link and summarise... :-) ... a smart tag that functions a lot like RFID (radio frequency identification) technology. The tag, which [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 08:14:25
RFID For Dummies
For Dummies | 408 | PDF Somewhere, separated from you by just a few degrees, is not Kevin Bacon, but an 800-pound gorilla demanding that you adopt radio frequency identification, or RFID — a technology you may have never even heard of until just a few months ago. Chances are that gorilla wears [more...]
Date: 2008-06-25 12:40:53
New Device Jams Teens' Cell Phones While Driving
University of Utah researchers have created a car ignition key that prevents teenagers from talking on cell phones or sending text messages while ... , the device uses wireless technology (Bluetooth or radio-frequency identification) to electronically "jam [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 21:41:33
Key2SafeDriving: The newest drive-safety gadget
Now, drivers who love the habit of using cell phones, ... Bluetooth or RFID (radio-frequency identification) technologies. To turn on the engine, the driver ... or making text messages. This device relies on Bluetooth technology and it works by wirelessly connecting [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 02:26:31
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
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
Top Picks in Large Cap Value
This week our top picks come from Portfolio managers Carl Lytollis and Andrew Cox of Phillips, Hager & North Investment Managment ... $7 billion in sales in that area this year.” Zebra Technologies (ZBRA)- “We’ve held Zebra Technologies ... growing business in providing software that enables RFID (radio frequency identification) tracking [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 21:01:58
Modern technology of RFID
Yesterday I have written an article related to online learning. Now I would like to write similar posting regarding online learning. Today I will talk about RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). According to Wikipedia definitions RFID is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 13:42:16
Proxense: Proximity Technologies
Launching this month is Bend, Oregon-based Proxense ... that makes Giobbi’s technology different from existing RFID, or radio frequency identification, technology [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 14:24:00
links for 2008-10-20
Healthcare I.T. News EU - Council unveils pioneering RFID approach to improving dementia care "Nottingham City Council has launched an innovative service that uses Radio Frequency Identification ... ." (via Peter Jones) (tags: localauthority enabledbydesign technology mentalhealth healthcare [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 13:00:11
Your Take: What Futuristic Home Add-On Is On Your Wishlist?
With all the financial turmoil, let’s turn our Friday Your Take from the current to the fanciful ... for a computer to scan. Using radio-frequency identification technology, our electronic fashion [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 11:39:14
IT: Internal Transmitters
What to all our internal transmitters? Well, perhaps you have heard of radio frequency identification tags or R. F. I. D. and if so this is the technology that will be implanted subdermal into humans for tracking. At first, RFID Tags will be used to track children in case they are abducted or to track child molesters [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 19:40:23
Researchers publish how-to guide on cloning RFID-based public transit cards
rfid.jpg RFID (short for "radio frequency identification"), a short-range wireless communication technology, has been criticized for years by many hackers ... the point, university experts have just released a pair of reports that show exactly how RFID subway cards [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 14:46:27
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
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
RFID Technology
RFID technology is used all around us in many different business ... stems with detailed explanations. In addition, the course covers RFID middleware, standards, security & ... . RFID stands for Radio-frequency identification which is an automatic method that uses radio [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 20:18:00
MetalCraft RFID Access Control
RFID at the gates Radio Frequency Identification technology helps gated communities control access Problem: ... proposition that brought Austin, Texas-based Radiant RFID and GateSource Corporation together [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 19:28:42
Soccer Tech
Having recently watched the Euro Cup finals, I began to wonder what kind of technology is employed into the world of soccer ... the world are:RFID embeded ticketsSoccer Ball Curved PanelsRFID (Radio Frequency Identification ... with a spiraling silver thread on the adhesive back. In a nut shell, when a transmitter sends out a radio signal [more...]
Date: 2008-07-02 19:31:20
RFID in Libraries Guide
A technology that was originally developed for the military during World War II, ... , automotives, fast food, travel industry, and so on, is RFID or Radio Frequency Identification. RFID ... machines in identifying objects. It consists of a transponder or a tag which has an embedded [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 16:59:29
Enabling Technologies (2)
Unintelligent gadgets. This includes devices such as sensors and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags ... of devices can pack a great of functionality in a small device. A good example of RFID in use is vehicle-tracking tags. The idea here is that a small sticker-like RFID tag is placed on the inside [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 08:43:10
Alanco Technologies Inc. (ALAN) Posts 40% Increase in Q4 Revenues, Spurred by “Unique Technical Achievements”
Advances in personal and asset tracking have set a high bar for tracking technology companies looking to stand out in the expanding market ... supply chain. Alanco/TSI PRISM supplies Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) real-time tracking ... product line, capitalizing upon a recently introduced fuel savings module providing immediate [more...]
Date: 2008-07-24 17:58:05
The Next Generation of Digital Media in Retail
Customers are now able to engage with Digital Media in a way that was never possible with passive aisle mounted large screens running TV style content. Using the latest RFID technology shoppers can now interact at the Point of Decision ... . The solution comprises of LCD screens and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tagged products [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 12:56:27
Cell Phone Blocker
An interesting article about safety when using a cell phone ... with the user's cell phone via either Bluetooth or RFID (radio-frequency identification) technologies. To turn [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 17:10:00
Hospital hazards, "Holy Crap" Department
We take for it granted that technology can be used to tag objects in various ways, useful and otherwise. The anti-theft devices used on retail clothing stores are a familiar example. Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) are used for this purpose as well as for security access. I have a device [more...]
Date: 2008-06-29 19:49:32
RFID - More Interesting Than You Realised
RFID - More Interesting Than You Realised By Samantha Gilmartin on Sep 11, 2008 in Hardware | comments(0) RFID technology is something that most people would claim to know nothing about. The technology ... of an RFID device right now. RFID, short for Radio Frequency Identification, is a umbrella term [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 06:21:38
Debenhams sales boosted by online growth
Angelica Mari, Computing, Tuesday 6 January 2009 at 10:41: ... a programme to use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to help measure in-store stock levels [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 10:41:00
Converging digital and physical infrastructures: instrumented, interconnected, intelligent
I was listening to Sam Palmisano’s talk on “A Smarter Planet” as part of the Technology and Foreign Policy discussion at the Council for Foreign ... million RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags within 2 years. The world is becoming [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 20:20:42
Big Brother celebs not just being watched, but tracked
Housemates in the latest series of Celebrity Big Brother are already being watched by scores of cameras around the clock ... behind Big Brother, selected Wavetrend -- a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) specialist ... . But now their precise movements are being tracked thanks to RFID technology installed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 17:53:02
RFID goes beyond inventory tracking
By: Grant Buckler - Network World Canada Click here to view original article ... to affix radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to merchandise has been the poster boy for RFID for so long that anyone could be forgiven for thinking RFID is simply an inventory control technology – [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 20:54:11
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
Rethinking the Sales Channel: A condition of disruptive technology
It is great to be back on the leader’s blog for the start of 2009 ... and deliver a whole product. In my case, the disruption I was harnessing was an emerging application of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in the supply chain as an alternative solution to bar [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 20:05:30
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
Better sensors will reduce food wastage
Advances in sensing technology will help reduce food wastage, causing a loss of 10 billion pounds ($20 billion) ... . The new printed sensors are based on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and will be modified ... annually in Britain alone, according to a report. Sensors can detect early indications of food [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 07:07:40
Multi-Detection Wireless Sensors from GE
GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company has come up with a battery-free, ... and pollution prevention. GE’s unique RFID sensors are built on traditional RFID ... ... multi-detection radio-frequency identification (RFID) sensing platform that could enable a wide [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 02:47:16
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
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
new testking comptia training dumps
CompTIA Certifications A+ : A+ CDIA+ : Certified Document Imaging Architech CTT+ : Certified Technical Trainer E-biz+ : e-Business HTI+ : ... + : Project+ RFID+ : Radio Frequency Identification Security+ : Security+ Server+ : Server+ CompTIA ... , training, Linux, security, home technology, document imaging and RFID. TestKing offers learning [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 08:29:59
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
SDForum Emerging Tech Event: Emerging Technologies in Physical Retail
If you're free Jan 14 and in the bay area, I will be speaking about Retail to the SD Forum, ... selling, radio frequency identification, and near field communications), and explain how they are being [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 21:00:54
MTI combats recession with WiMax and RFID products
Taiwan-based communications equipment maker, Microelectronics Technology (MTI), has announced new product lines for the first quarter of 2009, including WiMax CPE (customer premises equipment) and RFID (radio frequency identification) ... [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 15:29:25
Standardization and Technology Optimization Trigger Growth in the Asia Pacific RFID Inlays Market
NewswireToday (newswire) - The market for radio frequency identification (RFID) tags is set to see considerable growth, gaining traction with increasing deployment in various verticals [more...]
Date: 2008-07-23 14:57:44
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
Teen Drivers’ Cell Phones Jammed By Car Key
University of Utah researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers from talking on cell phones or sending text ... stage business consulting and “seed funding.” It has licensed the Key2SafeDriving technology ... user’s cell phone via either Bluetooth or RFID (radio-frequency identification) technologies [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 14:31:05
