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RSS chips tagsHospitals roll out RFID
News More than 50 hospitals are using smart wireless or barcoded wristbands and tags to give them an instant snapshot of the location of medicines, patients and sterile equipment.silicon.com Public Sector Connecting for Health (CfH) said the NHS was... [09 Jul 2008]
Tag, You're Late
White Paper The EPC would utilize radio frequencies to identify computer chips placed in tags. In 1999, MIT founded the Auto-ID Center to look more closely at how RFID technology could help businesses track and manage products using embedded sensors. [03 Jul 2008]
RFID Tagging: Final Report
White Paper The tags are small silicon chips that contain a unique identifying code and may also contain some form of stored battery power and on-chip memory. RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology consists of a system of tags and readers that can be... [03 Jul 2008]
Silent Commerce Chips Away at Star City Casino Wardrobe Worries
White Paper Star City, an Accenture client, found a groundbreaking answer to their laundry-tracking problem by embedding radio frequency identification tags in the waistband, shirttail or collar of each uniform. This innovative solution is an example of Silent... [03 Jul 2008]
Low Cost and Reliable RFID Tags for All Frequencies
White Paper Attentions have been rightly placed in the cost of RFID chips. The possibility of the Alien? s ? Fluidic-Self-Assembly, FSA? process and any other process that can increase yield per wafer will certainly help to further the roadmap for the paradigm... [03 Jul 2008]
Data-Converter Challenges in SoC Design
White Paper Mixed-mode SOC (system-on-chip) designs cover a wide spectrum of applications, including areas as diverse as television, datacomm, fingerprint sensors, electronic games, electronic supermarket-shelf tags, and many others. [03 Jul 2008]
Photos: Heathrow bags RFID tech to end lost luggage
Photo This scanner is positioned next to the RFID reader and the trial will examine which technology can read the information on the tags most effectively. RFID tags will still carry a barcode containing passenger information to be read by laser scanners... [14 Feb 2008]
Heathrow T3 tackles lost luggage with RFID
News The RFID chips, containing passenger names and routes, eliminate many of the problems of using traditional barcoded tags. RFID equipment has been installed at nine Emirates check-in desks with staff applying tags with both the chips and barcodes to... [13 Feb 2008]
RFID tags to "revolutionise" UN relief ops?
News Embedding electronic tags in containers of food and supplies - and even in workers' identification documents - will "revolutionise" the way the United Nations doles out relief in the aftermath of the next tsunami, civil war or disease outbreak, a... [11 Oct 2007]
Chips to weed out fake cigarettes?
News The technology will allow customs staff to use small hand-held readers to authenticate cigarettes - leading to speculation that RFID tags are being used. The TMA estimates it will take around a year for packets featuring the tags to hit UK shelves. [08 Oct 2007]
Photos: Microsoft Surface in depth
Photo These are domino tags. The domino tags have been placed on the face drawn in the paint programme, prompting the computer to display these strange patterns around the tabs to create the eyes. These tags can be placed on a variety of objects and... [02 Oct 2007]
Woolworths "Chips" Away at Inventory Shrinkage Through RFID Initiative
White Paper The solutions were bar codes, RFID devices, RFID readers, Global Positioning System (GPS), a Wireless Wide Area Network (WAN) and RFID tags. Dartmouth College's initial challenge for the pilot project was to define a manageable scope in terms of... [26 Jul 2007]
Achieving Return on Investment Using RFID for Jewelry Tracking
White Paper The benefits of HF tags are that they are currently available with higher memory and more security features. On the con side, HF tags will have very short read ranges. With the rapid development of new UHF chips however, this is just a temporary... [06 Jul 2007]
Essex libraries embrace RFID
News Martin Palmer, libraries manager for Essex County Council, told silicon.com: "RFID tags are able to combine two of the staples of library technology: the barcode and the security tag.silicon.com Public Sector [21 Jun 2007]
RFID to stub out cigarette smuggling?
News But HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the TMA are remaining tight-lipped about the exact nature of the technology, even though several newspaper reports have suggested that RFID tags will be used. Dr Peter Harrop of RFID analyst IDTechEx said... [23 Mar 2007]
