RFID News Roundup
RFID News Roundup GuardRFID and AppLocation intro RTLS for supply chains; Confidex unveils new EPC Gen 2 label; ... ; ODIN tests passive RFID tags for asset tracking. Navy, Marines Track Assets on Oahu Military ... are evaluating RFID to improve asset management, but they should also consider improving the way [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 01:13:41
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Microsoft lays out road map for next BizTalk releases
Microsoft Friday renamed the next major release of BizTalk server and committed to releasing major updates to the business process management server ... focus on asset management to support remote devices beyond RFID readers, he added. Computerworld ... line ever two years or less. Burley Kawasaki, director of product management in Microsoft's [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 19:24:55
RFID tags could help manage data center assets
Data center staffers are typically not employed to maintain inventories of hardware assets, ... adoption, said Jonathan Collins, U.K-based principal analyst by the RFID & contactless group at ABI ... of the extreme point of 2013. IT managers can use passive or active RFID technology. With passive [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 03:25:38
RF Code Announces Wireless Environmental Monitoring Solution
AUSTIN, Texas & DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–RF Code, Inc ... the Active RFID in Asset Tracking track, along with IBM. For more information click here ... . , a leader in automating physical asset management using RFID enabled solutions, today announced [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 20:03:41
Daily news beat for August 20, 2008
RFID's new utility in the datacenter. The No. 1 growth category for RFID tags is IT asset management ... information security. Related: Four exotic uses of RFID that just might surprise you. CRM host Salesforce.com scoops up InStranet, the maker of knowledge-based management products for call centers in a deal [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 17:40:07
Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management
Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management Domino ISG provides real-time traffic control that eliminates the delays, errors, and omissions of manual tracking. Asset tracking systems automatically monitors movements at... Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards MIKOH Smart&Secure: Retail RFID Tag Venture Research: RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 04:02:35
RFID Moving Into the Data Center
IT managers are increasingly finding value in using RFID within their own IT operations ... and revenues. RFID vendors and systems integrators are offering a range of products from specialized ... . This is spurring adoption of RFID in data centers and across corporate campuses. IT assets [more...]
Date: 2008-10-05 19:45:30
GAO launches beaconing tag
Canadian firm GAO RFID Inc. has released a new 2.4GHz active beaconing RFID tag ... in asset locating and tracking and warehouse inventory management applications. The new tag ... receives a specific signal from a nearby RFID reader, a built-in LED flashes to assist the user [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 19:12:00
RFID News Roundup
RFID News Roundup Turkey's GarantiBank issues contactless credit card; Idesco unveils EPC Gen 2 reader with long read range; ... Effectiveness for Tracking IT Assets The company scientifically tested seven EPC Gen 2 RFID tags suitable for IT asset tracking, and analyzed five use cases, including employing the technology to manage [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 19:04:26
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
Weekly Newswire September 11th, 2008
Access this week's industry, legal, and policy news.. ... looking at for a number of supply chain and asset management ... Verayo Introduces World's First ... . Is Visidot a Viable Alternative to RFID and Traditional 2D Bar Codes Supply Chain Digest [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 16:41:15
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
MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR ALL!!!
All over the world we find very many business organizations. Some of them make it very big while the others stay stagnant ... applications and environments. They offer a complete RFID suite which includes readers, printers, labels ... using their wireless Hand held computers , transportation and logistics, for retails using RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 14:51:25
Motorola Handheld RFID Readers
Motorola Handheld RFID Readers Give your workers the ability to capture a comprehensive range of data — from RFID tags and bar codes to images with this flexible multi-function device. Single device simplicity ... Domino EIS RFID Compliance 1st Program For CPG Industrial Portals, A Division Of Jamison Door Company: Product... InSync [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 16:28:34
RFID's new utility in the datacenter
When you think of RFID, you likely think of the radio tags being used to track items in a warehouse or verify prescriptions in a hospital -- two long-time uses of the radio frequency identification tags. But today, RFID's biggest growth ... is now found in the RFID tagging of IT assets, especially those deemed high-value, says Michael [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 18:47:09
AeroScout Unveils New tracking Product
AeroScout, Inc., the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility for improving operational efficiency and quality, ... mobile, battery-powered tags that use both GPS to determine location in any outdoor environment ... . The GPS and Wi-Fi combination delivers a cost-effective solution for the 309th AMARG, in part [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 10:54:58
RFID and Digital Signage Integration
RFID tag integration for digital signage targeting and information display If we were to throw privacy out the window and just talk about the “far-out” technological possibilities of RFID and digital signage, we may well see how both ... ll certainly see more integration with other devices like mobile phones. In fact, RFID chips [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 19:29:14
Visa Partners With Nokia to Offer RFID-enabled Services
Visa Partners With Nokia to Offer RFID-enabled Services The credit card company will leverage Nokia's newest Near Field Communications (NFC) ... Printing's Holographic RFID Labels › RFID News Roundup › Google India Uses RFID to Locate Shared Equipment › Schwarzenegger Signs Anti-Skimming RFID Measure But Vetoes Bill [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 23:57:09
General GWiR 12 December 2008 from IP Think Tank
IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet. Please join the discussion by adding your comments on any of these stories, and please do let us know if you think we’ve missed something important, or if there is a source you think should be monitored [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 09:00:00
The Seven Grand Challenges for Supply Chain Management
Sourcing Innovation recently issued a challenge among our blogsphere community of supply chain management bloggers to offer some thoughts on the ... for this concept was RFID technology, but the hype of this particular technology within supply chains ... . In September of 2005 I authored an opinion column for RFID Update (Broadening Context for RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 17:51:01
2008 Terrorism
As 2008 comes to a close we must look back at America's security and terrorism in general around the world ... , gaping holes in our security. Dave Gaubatz* comments on the recent Department of Homeland Security's ... the report itself to be a national security threat for America ??? more importantly for the children [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 01:13:07
Wednesday Shorts: Myhrvold Stalks, EPO Strikes, Lehman Sinks
Nathan Myhrvold and Intellectual Ventures Set for Big Patent Play: over the last few years, Intellectual Ventures (IV) has amassed a whopping 20,000-plus patents and patent applications related to everything from lasers to computer chips. IV now ranks among the world's largest patent-holders -- and the company [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 12:59:00
RFID, Privacy and the Surveillance Society
If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) ... of everyday life. RFID tags are small computer chips connected to miniature antennae that can be fixed ... and civil liberties: * Hidden placement of tags. RFID tags can be embedded into/onto objects [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 13:40:25
The Implanted Radio-Frequency Identification Chip: “Smart Cards” in a Surveillance Society
Dandelion Salad by Tom Burghardt Global Research, September 6, ... when a RFID reader emits a radio signal. The chips are divided into two categories, passive or active. A “ ... 2008Antifascist Calling… RFID tags implanted in physical objects or human beings If incorporating [more...]
Date: 2008-09-07 17:29:50
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
Ship2Save’s secret to effectively target multiple markets: BizTalk RFID
Microsoft’s BizTalk RFID and Ship2Save meet the unique needs of customers and IT providers in plethora of industries at low TCO ... identification device (RFID) solutions industry, today announced its strategic relationship with Microsoft and support for BizTalk RFID Standards Pack. Ship2Save RFID software solutions in conjunction [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 16:47:07
Navy, Marines Track Assets on Oahu
Navy, Marines Track Assets on Oahu Military warehouses at Pearl Harbor and Kaneohe Bay are using EPC Gen 2 RFID to track inbound and outbound supplies and equipment. Zebra Unveils Wearable RFID Printer-Encoder The mobile device ... a Virtual RFID-enabled Hospital › Walgreens Opens RFID-Enabled Distribution Center [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 23:58:23
GAO Offers 134.2 kHz LF Animal Bio-Glass Tube RFID Tag with Injector
Toronto, Canada - GAO RFID Asset Tracking Inc. (www.GAORFIDAssetTracking.com) recommends its 134.2 kHz low frequency (LF) RFID Tag (GAO 112004) ... readers, RFID tags and enabling-RFID software. We have a wide variety of RFID readers, tags ... identification of animals that are registered in a database. Injection shape and size are based [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 09:20:17
Zebra Unveils Wearable RFID Printer-Encoder
Zebra Unveils Wearable RFID Printer-Encoder The mobile device encodes EPC Gen 2 tags and supports both thermal transfer and direct thermal printing technologies. University Students Create a Virtual RFID-enabled Hospital The group ... organizations to test RFID implementations prior to physical deployment [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 14:38:47
Oil Company Tracks Half a Million Gas Cylinders
Oil Company Tracks Half a Million Gas Cylinders Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd ... driver's licenses; big jump for RFID patent applications in Korea; ODIN tests passive RFID tags for asset ... are evaluating RFID to improve asset management, but they should also consider improving the way [more...]
Date: 2008-09-20 03:30:47
Video: MIKOH Smart&Secure Product Overview
Video: MIKOH Smart&Secure Product Overview Smart&Secure is a proprietary, tamper-evident RFID platform developed and owned by MIKOH ... , Fastest Active RFID Tags On The Market Now Available On MOBILEFusion... 8 Fire Department ... . The platform consists of a patented multi-layer adhesive process that delivers certainty [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 08:51:30
[Mycolleagues] CFP: PoCa 2009 : Deadline extended : International Conference on Positioning and Context-awareness (PoCa 2009)
*** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies ******* Submission deadline is extended to January 9, ... and people monitoring* Supply Chain Management* Smart Home Automation* Elderly ... to)* Wireless standards (WiFi, Zigbee, UWB, etc)* RFID* NFC* Sensor fusion [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 14:55:00
Why Use an Asset Management System?
Why use an Asset Management System?The phrase, Asset Management System, is a little daunting in itself ... use an Asset Management System that may be as simple as printing off price labels. Sometimes ... profit each year. It cost this store $7500 to set up an RFID printer and scanner, and an additional [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 10:06:00
GAO Launches its GEN 2 RFID Reader
GAO's GEN 2 RFID Reader is an improved model, which features enhanced interference rejection,and a much smaller foot print.With high read rate.this RFID reader is easy to manage and integrate with EPC RFID software.This manageable.robust Gen 2 RFID Reader is available for supply chain.manufacturing and asset management applications. [more...]
Date: 2008-12-06 14:03:54
Radio Frequency Identification
Radio Frequency Identification is an emerging new field like nanotechnology. Its foundation is laid upon the principles of Radio Wave Propagation and Communication Systems ... can be multiplexed over a single interface and can be continuously monitored. Radio Frequency [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 06:45:06
Video: RFID Inventory Tracking For Food Manufacturing
Video: RFID Inventory Tracking For Food Manufacturing See how Nancy's Specialty Foods, the world's largest manufacturer of quiche, ... is the world's cutting edge antenna technology manufacturer for RFID applications and is dedicated to providing antenna solution to any RFID application, including: portal near field, handheld, forklift [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 02:55:41
University Students Create a Virtual RFID-enabled Hospital
University Students Create a Virtual RFID-enabled Hospital The group has created the facility in Second Life, a 3-D online world ... › Club Sentry Adds RFID to Its Member-Management System › At Democratic ... to improve asset management, but they should also consider improving the way they treat and manage [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 19:56:49
Cosmetics and Liquor Companies Assess Toppan Printing's Holographic RFID Labels
Cosmetics and Liquor Companies Assess Toppan Printing's Holographic RFID Labels If the tags meet performance and cost criteria, ... distribution of their products. RFID News Roundup TransCore unveils tag designed for most toll-collection systems; Mines near the Arctic Circle will use RFID; Charleston Inn using Capton's liquor [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 04:45:04
Sun Microsystems to Lay Off 350
Nortel is likely to cut about 10 percent of its work force. The malaise has started to spread to component makers. For instance, JDSU cut 400 jobs, shut down seven R&D centers and three plants. Anadigics, a Warren, N.J.-based broadband wireless and wireline chip maker cut 15 percent of its work force [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 17:02:09
Embedded RFID and Power SoCs
Blue and Purple RFID tag.jpg Don't miss two useful In-Depth articles that now feature on the site, regarding RFID tags in embedded designs, ... to the traditional role of the technology in inventory management, recent advances in RFID tags ... and Power SoCs. RFID in embedded designs: Your move "Radio Frequency Identification technology [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 11:50:35
The Future of Clinical Computing: A Vision from Panasonic
This week, Panasonic quietly gathered some of the bigger brains in medical technology and introduced them to the company's upcoming Mobile Clinical ... . Not surprisingly, we spent time discussing Panasonic's family of mobile healthcare products, including [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 14:56:22
GAO: DEFENSE LOGISTICS - Lack of Key Information May Impede DOD’s Ability to Improve Supply Chain Management
GAO: DEFENSE LOGISTICS - Lack of Key Information May Impede DOD’s Ability to Improve Supply Chain ManagementJanuary 12, ... improvements. DOD has identified two technologies included in this roadmap, item unique identification (IUID) and passive radio frequency identification (RFID), as having promise to address weaknesses in asset [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 01:29:00
Fluensee acquires TrenStar Tracking Solutions
Fluensee acquires TrenStar Tracking Solutions Fluensee has announced the acquisition of TrenStar Tracking Solutions and its North American ... Tracking Solutions brings together two RFID-enabled asset tracking solutions. The move extends ... with it the opportunity to immediately provide a scalable asset management solution as a Software as a Service [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 20:14:39
A Note on the TATA NEN Hottest Startup Contest
I stumbled upon the TATA NEN Hottest Startup contest yesterday. The site can be accessed at http://hotteststartups.in. The site features a slide show on the 30 finalists, 5 of whom get declared as the hottest startups in India. I spent some time going through the websites of the finalists and I found the array of ideas and business models [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 04:23:00
GAO Provides Its 125kHz LF Handheld RFID Reader
Toronto, Canada – GAO RFID Inc. (www.GAORFID.com) offers this new version of its 125kHz LF (Low Frequency) handheld RFID reader (GAO221005) ... management. GAO’s 125 KHz LF handheld RFID reader has no keys and uses built-in intelligence ... under water. Specifications of GAO’s 125 KHz RFID LF Handheld Reader: Memory: 30716 records [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 09:19:19
GAO Offers Portable Vector Network Analyzer Series
GAO Offers Portable Vector Network Analyzer Series Toronto, Canada - GAO RFID Inc. (www.GAORFID.com) ... ) hardware and solutions to end users worldwide. GAO RFID combines best of breed with low cost RFID readers, RFID tags and enabling-RFID software. We have a wide variety of RFID readers, tags and antennas [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 10:46:02
GAO Offers Its 900MHz UHF RFID Reader Module
Toronto, Canada – GAO RFID Inc. (www.GAORFID.com) has released its HF (Low Frequency) RFID reader module (GAO 713003) ... applications and hardware to RFID technology. GAO’s 13.56MHz HF RFID reader module allows existing installations to retain most of their hardware infrastructure and change to more secure RFID technology [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 09:21:21
RedPrairie Adds RFID Support for Yard Management
RedPrairie announced its core warehouse management system now supports RFID for yard management functions. The leading WMS and supply chain software provider said its customer base has shown strong interest in using RFID for asset management and yard management, but not for case and pallet tracking [more...]
Date: 2008-08-27 15:42:28
Intermec Intellitag PM4i Industrial Printer
Intermec Intellitag PM4i Industrial Printer The multi-function Intellitag® PM4i printer gives you the reliability, ... with the latest... Motorola Handheld RFID Readers Domino EIS RFID Compliance 1st Program For CPG Industrial Portals, A Division Of Jamison Door Company: Product... InSync Solutions Library: Data Center [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 19:17:58
RFID Tickets Sped Visitors Through Belgium's F1 Grand Prix
RFID Tickets Sped Visitors Through Belgium's F1 Grand Prix The race organizer used tickets embedded with 13.56 MHz RFID tags and handheld readers to scan tickets as visitors entered the stadium, thereby ... › At Democratic Convention, First Data Corp. Showed Off Its GO-Tag › RFID News Roundup [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 09:37:53
