Breaking the Costly Cycle of Cheap Compliance (Part 1)

Issue #160 | Sept. 5, 2008 | by Clarke McAllister McAllister’s Law states that mass compliance with retailer tagging mandates will not occur until the cost of encoding and applying an RFID tag is less than the cost of the tag itself ... of the RFID tag. Their hesitancy to fully embrace RFID, while understandable a couple of years ago [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 14:18:01

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Low-cost nanotechnology substitute for gold and silver in printable electronics

Ink-jet printing of metal nanoparticles for conductive metal patterns has attracted great interest as an alternative to expensive fabrication ... and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. Nobel metals like silver and gold are preferred ... -cost applications such as RFID tags with required unit costs below one cent. A new technique [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 02:46:27

Improving Expiration Dates

Many in the supermarket industry look forward to the days when all items have RFID tags ... , dramatically cutting stores’ labor costs. RFID image courtesy of SMARTCODE corporation via Wikipedia A new kind of RFID tag that University of Manchester (UK) researchers are developing could help reduce [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 14:41:46

Metro-politan

Down at the European Technology Standards Institute (ETSI) ... , he also had a airline baggage tag with an RFID inlay and he said that the cost of the paper was greater than the cost of the RFID inlay, which I found rather surprising. Given the recent demise [more...]

Date: 2008-06-10 08:09:14

DAILY RFID Unveils Low Cost 125KHz LF RFID Reader

Read More... | 2240 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 132 (1314 total stories) ... · RR9 Long Range RFID Reader (DL810) · Its 865MHz (UHF) Gen 2 Handheld RFID Reader/Writer ... Reveals Life at North · HF RFID Reader with RRJupiter RF Module Inside · Legal Advantage LLC Goes Green [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 17:54:52

New GE RFID Sensor Platform

Have seen presentations by GE on their tagging applications, primarily in the area of active and powered RFID for use with expensive assets ... has developed a low-cost, RFID-based sensor platform that is capable of detecting multiple chemical or biological agents -- all without a battery. The passive RFID tags could potentially be used in health [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 14:43:00

IDENTEC SOLUTIONS Technology Utilized At The Polar Circle

IDENTEC SOLUTIONS Technology Utilized At The Polar Circle The Swedish government owned corporation Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB) ... ... Identify Animals And Small Items With GAO Tek's LF Glass RFID... ThingMagic USB RFID Reader Provides Low Cost Platform For... Wireless Sensor Networks 2009-2019 William G.T. Tuttle, Jr. General [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 06:49:36

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

You Scratch Our Back, We’ll Break Yours

Maybe Wal-Mart doesn’t understand how products are made ... is now demanding that suppliers implement radio frequency identification (RFID) to replace bar codes. According to reports, implementing RFID will increase the cost burden on suppliers by 20 times the cost [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 19:51:41

Let The Dog Out Without Ever Getting Up

By Jonathan Kimak I love my dogs, I really do. But sometimes when it’s quite late and I’m tired I would much rather let the dogs go out ... interesting. The flap is made of shatter proof materials and an aluminum frame. You put a RFID tag ... it which means no snagged tails or paws. These go for $6397 and additional RFID tags cost $30 per unit [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 04:02:05

RFID Read Range: Just how far can RFID track something?

Tomorrow, we will be announcing the new AD 224 RFID chip from Avery Dennison will be used in our Pro-Tags DoD product lines and our premier Nox-1 ... .   Side Note: Active RFID is different and would cost $20+ per tag and give several-hundred feet ... , this optimization can use RFID as a trip-wire because any disturbance in the force will cause loss of tag [more...]

Date: 2008-07-12 16:03:13

End Times Prophecy

Company develops Ink-based RFID Tags - first step to a RFID enabled Tattoo?(Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies) California-based Kovio Inc. has unveiled a silicon ink-based RFID tag and an accompanying RFID platform. The first products ... of printed read-only memory, which will serve as the foundation for a low-cost HF RFID tag family. Kovio [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 19:30:03

End Times Prophecy

Company develops Ink-based RFID Tags - first step to a RFID enabled Tattoo?(Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies) California-based Kovio Inc. has unveiled a silicon ink-based RFID tag and an accompanying RFID platform. The first products ... of printed read-only memory, which will serve as the foundation for a low-cost HF RFID tag family. Kovio [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 11:45:02

End Times Prophecy

Company develops Ink-based RFID Tags - first step to a RFID enabled Tattoo?(Increase in Knowledge/New Technologies) California-based Kovio Inc. has unveiled a silicon ink-based RFID tag and an accompanying RFID platform. The first products ... of printed read-only memory, which will serve as the foundation for a low-cost HF RFID tag family. Kovio [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 23:15:10

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

GE develops battery-free RFID tags

GE Global Research has announced a new type of radio-frequency identification (RFID) ... smaller sensors at low cost, opening up a new range of potential applications from measuring ... Related Articles: Cell Phones to monitor the air and alert users to harmful chemicals and gases RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 06:01:29

Wavemark-Lumedx RFID technology helps Florida Hospital reduce costs

HealthCare Management was recently informed of a product launch that could potentially, help hospitals lower their inventory costs, improve tracking of medical devices, and positively impact patient care. The new RFID technology enabled system is being launched jointly by Wavemark: a market leader in real-time inventory [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 07:12:05

Guy builds his own RFID poker table

One enterprising fellow has taken his love of televised poker to a new level. Andrew Milner took your average poker table and retrofitted it with wireless RFID chips ... the table cost him around $7,000 overall and took about three months to make.  Might this change the way [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 14:00:10

DIY RFID Beer Safe Protects Your PBR

By Evan Ackerman Curious about RFID? Overprotective of your beer? Have 30 minutes of free time? The latest episode of Systm ( ... RFID locking system. It costs around $100, which is a heck of a lot of replacement PBR, but you don ... it out: RFID on Systm [more...]

Date: 2008-11-09 05:58:05

Video: Japanese Robot Eats Bikes For Breakfast

Each day in Tokyo, over 700,000 people ride their bikes to catch the morning train and this creates a problem. Where do you store all those bikes? ... ). This implementation in Edogawa, Japan was built at a cost of $67 million and can store up to 9,400 bikes at one time. The method uses an RFID tag to identify your bike and costs only $18 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 13:45:00

Satyam mayhem makes investors wary of many businesses; retail sector too is prone to errors of omission and commission, say experts

While B Ramalinga Raju’s revealations to its shareholders have sent shockwaves aross the industial and investment circles across the country, ... out by their computer systems. In the absence of adaptation of high-cost technologies like RFID [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:55:40

Alliance & Leicester Savings Launches RewardSaver

Read More... | 4147 bytes more | Score: 0) RFID Reader Module With USB Interface Technology - Electronics - Hardware jackpan writes: DAILY RFID recently released the 125KHz low frequency RFID Reader Module,which ... performance,this kind of RFID reader module provides a very low cost with only about 28USD. Posted [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 16:38:47

Panasonic Announces the Toughbook H1 Mobile Clinical Assistant

Here is a video of the new Toughbook made for medical use. Watch the video and check out the spec along with the $2800 cost ... * Fingerprint scanner * Contactless smartcard reader * RFID reader * Fully rugged o MIL ... ® WiFi Link 5100 802.11a/b/g/draft-n * Bluetooth® v2.0 + EDR * Integrated docking connector [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 12:21:00

RFID Security and Privacy Cybertrust Grant

UVa Today has an article about our (myself, abhi shelat, John Lach, and Ben Calhoun) recent NSF Cybertrust grant on RFID security and privacy: U.Va ... available on common RFID tags. Providing a solution that adds virtually no cost is crucial, because ... . Team Receives $1 Million Grant To Improve RFID Security, by Brevy Cannon, 9 January 2009 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 04:27:08

GAO Presents Cost Effective, On Metal, Active RFID

T equipment, vehicles and transport media. This advanced active tag is powered by an internal battery and will transmit a radio frequency signal at pre-set time-intervals for the duration of its life [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:03:22

UK Virtual Private Network (VPN) Provider Moves Into Redditch

January 31 2004–RFID Systems, are a leading UK supplier of VPNs ... applications from a laptop, whilst out of the office, RFID Systems provide complete VPN solutions that are fast, cost-effective and extremely secure. David Ricketts, VPN Sales, RFID Systems commented [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 00:02:44

Insecure by design

Would you design a system which you know is vulnerable to hacking?  However, the fact is that secure systems do cost more than their non-secure ( ... an RFID-based cards used for prepaying highway tolls in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the barcode based system used by the National Library Board in Singapore. Both systems can be easily broken [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 08:19:07

RFID Shows Potential in Africa Even as High Costs Remain Cause for Concern

NewswireToday (newswire) - The use of radio frequency identification (RFID) applications is advancing and creating significant opportunities in many African countries [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 04:23:56

Choosing the Best Bathroom Accessories is Easy Now

Read More... | 3102 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 134 (1331 total stories) ... in Cost Analysis of Suppliers · GAO Launches 13.56MHz Vicinity Fixed RFID Reader · Oxyshopping.com ... as Plug-n-Play Device · GAO Launches its GEN 2 RFID Reader Wednesday, December 03, 2008· MTN South Africa [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 14:03:54

In-Store Analytics

A big advantage for ecommerce sites is the ability to track minutest details of customer activity ... s consider using RFID technology at the grocery store. Placing RFID tags on carts with receiver tags ... I like best utilizes RFID. RFID technology is getting cheaper by the day and is estimated to cost around [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 11:15:44

Warehouse Technology - from the old to the new

by Graham Mawdsley, Senior Consultant I first set foot in a retail distribution centre 30 years ago as a management trainee, ... flexibility, but even a small-to-medium size (and cost) example will often offer considerable ... of setbacks and ‘false dawns’, RFID still promises opportunities and benefits for introduction [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 11:08:23

The RFID-Enabled Airport

The RFID-Enabled Airport Hurricanes have destroyed several commercial sites along the Gulf Coast over the last few years and Charlotte County Florida Airport (PGD) in Punta Gorda is no different. PGD was... RFID-Enabled Parking Garage Access RFID Secures Middle East Border Protection Bob Jones University: Improved Security, Reduced Costs [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 08:25:27

Key fob blocks cell phone use

You know driving while talking on a cell phone is dangerous and texting is even worse ... connects wirelessly with each key user’s cell phone via either Bluetooth or RFID (radio-frequency ... ! Of course better parenting would save you the costs involved. Physorg via Gizmodo Stay tuned… ©2008 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 21:30:20

Insecure by design

Despite the availability of robust and secure solutions, organizations persist in implementing insecure design in a bid to save on cost ... Nate Lawson was concerned about the privacy implications of the popular RFID-based FasTrak toll tags ... of the card is kept in backend servers, this in fact exacerbates the plight of victims.  Hackers [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 09:00:36

Printed Electronics Spawn Emerging Electronic Giants

Issue #167 | Oct. 23, 2008 | by Raghu Das Printed electronics is a term that encompasses thin film transistor circuits (TFTCs) ... have now entered this market. Readers of RFID Street may know printed electronics as the technology that will print RFID tags right on items in the not too distant future, eliminating the cost of applying them [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 14:31:02

December 20 SOA News

Five fearless predictions for SOA 2009ZDNet - USASOA seemed to become more and more pervasive across companies, ... to drive down those costs. ... SOA for the greatest logisitical night of allZDNet - USA Dave suggests RFID-tagging all goods, with information flowing real-time across an SOA-enabled system. SOA can also [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 14:21:00

Latest RFID Wrsitbands for Hospital Applications

DAILY RFID (www.rfid-in-china.com)has recently launched Silica Gel RFID Wristband Tag with RFID technology. This kind of RFID Wristband is especially designed for integrated the different service providing ... provides a very low cost about 0.9USD. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 00:50:09

Linkapalooza: Sci/Tech

Good evening Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and All The Ships At Sea…FLASH! At NewTeeVee ... production and low cost. And, yes, the two men who wrote the paper ARE from Mexico. So, fellas ... RFID tags into Alzheimer’s patients in Florida. Well [more...]

Date: 2008-06-18 18:05:15

Future Technology Trends

Its that time of the year.  Yes this is when we start looking at the future.  According to Future of IT study by CIOInsight ... in many different flavors (wireless, wired, etc.) and have benefited from lowered costs. 7. Sensors/Smart ... , is still flexing its muscles. IT executives show the same level of interest in RFID as in 2007, which [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 17:05:32

An electronic pet door for lazy owners

Imagine the scenario– it’s 6:00 am and your dog has woken you up and is scratching at the door ... door that works by simply attaching a waterproof RFID chip to your dog’s collar. When the pet gets ... be scared of the thing. The cost ranges from $130 up to $800 depending on the size and model. [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 13:31:44

Plastic Pallets Gain Ground In an Eco-Conscious World

Source: www.ptonline.com Low-cost wood is still king, ... , automotive, and the U.S. Postal Service. The difficulty and cost of wood pallet disposal has always ... plastic pallet “pool” system has been launched. These RFID-enabled pallets play to plastics’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 21:10:50

The Pursuit Of Efficiency: Automation In Health Care

The Pursuit Of Efficiency: Automation In Health Care Everyone is talking about “living green” – taking whatever steps we can as individuals to ... to the EMR, RFID, CPOE, or to any of the hot-topic technologies we always read ... , data accuracy and overall cost savings. Let’s take a look at the areas in a hospital where automation [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 20:15:05

Acai Berry Supplement Reviews Website

Read More... | 3263 bytes more | Score: 0) 125KHz Reader with RFID Low Frequency Technology ... Technology - Electronics - Hardware jackpan writes: DAILY RFID recently released the 125KHz low ... and so on.With a very good performance,it provides a very low cost, only about 28USD. Posted [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 01:56:13

Increase Your Sales and Cut Costs by using Barcode Tracking

How do you compete more effectively in global markets? With increased efficiencies and cost savings… By Peter Green - BellHawk Systems Corporation ... money are: By saving them money on the receiving dock. They put a barcode or RFID label on each ... applying all the barcode labels and RFID tags that your customer needs for their internal tracking [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 12:49:46

My recent two day stay in a modern, metropolitan hospital, covered by my excellent insurance (although it will still cost me a bundle) ... the information. So even within the hospital, I didn't seem to be connected. But bar codes and RFID (radio [more...]

Date: 2008-07-12 12:06:36

Researchers Create Printed Circuit Lattices Of Transparent Nanotube-Based Transistors

Researchers Create Printed Circuit Lattices Of Transparent.. ... Announces Actions To Reduce Manufacturing Costs And... Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue ... Industry's First Multi-band, Multi-mode... M/A-COM Technology Solutions Introduces Direction Of Travel RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 13:49:07

Q&A with Oracle's John Bermudez: Guard Against Hidden Outsourcing Costs

INFORMATION INDEPTH NEWSLETTERSLean Supply Chain EditionDecember 2008 NEWS SECTION Q&A with Oracle's John Bermudez: ... Systems to Deliver Integration of RFID Data with E-Business Suite The Warehouse Management blog ... Solution and RFID LEARN MORE Supply Chain Makeover [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 12:30:00

Mexico December 2008 - Part Five

As you can imagine, this is always the saddest part! ... me again totally and verified my fingerprints with my RFID passport. There I had to stay about 8 hours ... , so I decided to register me at the airport wireless network service called “Boingo“. It costs me 7,95USD [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 20:31:12

Chasing loose ends

Streamlined Fun by Isaac Fast. Emptying the bookmarks: Theft Three Cool RFID Projects to Deter Bicycle Thefts - Portsmouth, Oregon, ... on film.” PSFK Cycle Parking David Byrne’s bike racks in New York - “nspired by specific locations ... Cycle Parking manual - Danish Cyclists Federation Transport Policy Putting Pedestrians First [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 22:42:47

Hold Onto Your Seats, Sports Fans: SF Giants to Try Airline-Style Pricing

Passengers find no shortage of befuddling experiences in the air travel industry. But perhaps nothing confounds customers as much as airlines’ approach to pricing, in which the fare two people pay for the exact same service can swing wildly based on — from a customer’s perspective — a labyrinthe [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 11:32:00

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