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How e-coding can prevent NHS slip-ups
Comment The trust has also adopted GS1 standards for its passive RFID-enabled wristbands, using unique GS1 codes to help ensure positive patient identification. How can electronic coding help hospitals? Mayday... [20 May 2009]
Beyond Product Codes: New Opportunities for Radio Frequency Identification Technology - The Market Possibilities Opened Up by Low-Cost, Customizable RFID Tags
White Paper Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has achieved widespread, mass-market success in high-volume Electronic Product Code (EPC) and logistics applications, as well as considerable success in... [14 Apr 2009]
Advancing the Retail Supply Chain Infrastructure
White Paper With Wal-Mart requiring all of its supplier shipments to incorporate RFID tags by January 1, 2005, all retailers and suppliers need to accelerate implementation plans for upgrading their retail supply chain infrastructure by using... [15 Nov 2006]
EPC and RFID - Overview and Vision
White Paper RFID in combination with Electronic Product Codes (EPC) can help computers distinctly and automatically identify everyday objects. RFID technology can greatly enhance the enterprise's... [15 Nov 2006]
Microsoft jumps into RFID management
News Often called electronic bar codes, RFID tags emit a signal that shares basic identification information about a product. After investing significantly in technology for radio frequency... [09 Mar 2005]
RFID standard escapes royalties
News The standard, which was finalised on Thursday, is designed to improve the reliability of RFID equipment, a wireless tracking technology that may someday replace bar codes. Some in the fledgling industry feared that the... [17 Dec 2004]
Microsoft takes RFID lead in tech council
News But the switchover from bar codes to RFID tags isn't happening as fast as some had hoped. The company also said on Monday that it has joined forces with EPCglobal, an organisation that is developing RFID standards for... [06 Apr 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: RFID, crazy California law and smut in Iran
Comment RFID tags are a new generation of electronic bar codes that can transmit and receive data wirelessly. It found that pallets could be loaded 40 per cent faster using RFID as opposed to bar... [07 Jul 2003]
Microsoft enters RFID tag fray
News The tags, which are extremely small, could one day replace bar codes on product packaging, using special microchips to communicate wirelessly with computers when scanned. Auto ID will be developing... [11 Jun 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Chips in everything
Comment But while bar codes are passive many will see RFID tags as a great threat, a challenge to our civil liberties. Fast forward 10 years and assume bar codes have been replaced by embedded RFID tags. A... [05 Sep 2002]
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