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Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News RFID tags on food wrappers could also be used in conjunction with portable nutrition scanners to help allergy suffers or people with specific dietary requirements easily identify suitable foodstuffs, the report said.

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

Are you prepared to meet the January 2009 California Pedigree Law?

whitepaper This paper explains why the IBM Serialization Pilot Kit with TAGSYS RFID is an inexpensive, low risk way to rapidly pilot and evaluate HF RFID for item-level serialization in packaging operations. Implementing new serialization on pharmaceutical...

Tags: legal

[03 May 2008]

RFID Basics for Retailers

whitepaper Despite the promise that the technology holds, limitations with the initial RFID implementations have made the experiences to-date mixed. The recently ratified EPCglobal UHF Generation 2 standard and the RFID standards work being done by ISO are...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, standards, rfid, date

[01 May 2008]

ABCs of RFID: Understanding and Using Radio Frequency Identification

whitepaper Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is one of the fastest growing and most beneficial technologies being adopted by businesses today. RFID offers great value for many industries and applications. However, misperceptions about what RFID is and...

Tags: rfid, rfid, standards, adopted

[01 May 2008]

Do You Know Where Your Assets Are? Maximizing ROI with RFID Asset Management

whitepaper RFID technology can provide visibility into that unknown, and it can do this automatically. Companies today are making millions of dollars' worth of decisions based on data that is only about 70% accurate.

Tags: asset management

[01 May 2008]

How to Choose the Best Data Capture Technology

whitepaper As bar codes became commonplace, companies realized the advantage of carrying more data, leading to new symbologies such as PDF417 and matrix codes that convey far more information, and now radio frequency identification (RFID), which can serve as...

Tags: asset management

[01 May 2008]

Glasgow NHS keeps tabs on equipment with RFID

News NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has implemented a wireless networking project in the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) that involves tracking medical equipment with RFID tags.silicon.com Public Sector The initial phase of the project to install a wi-fi...

Tags: wifi, rfid, nhs

[28 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…

Comment The jury's still out on this one… Finally, RFID bag tagging at the airport - good idea? RFID bag tags could save air-travel industry millions For several years the airlines have been saying they do not want to pay the extra costs of RFID.

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[24 Apr 2008]

RFID bag tags could save air-travel industry millions

News According to the fourth annual Sita Baggage Report, RFID is a key technology for solving baggage handling headaches, estimated to be costing the global air travel industry $3.8bn a year. It said RFID bag tagging could make the industry a saving of...

Tags: rfid, ba, t5

[18 Apr 2008]

Chip Maker Tries 'Snack and Trace'

whitepaper KiMs was interested in testing a technology, such as RFID, that would enable the automatic identification of the products and not require human involvement to read data. The RFID system would read the tags during storage, loading and shipment, and...

Tags: supply chain management, food, snack, tags

[18 Apr 2008]

RFID: A Business Revolution Providing Strategic and Competitive Advantage

whitepaper RFID technology has been in use for many years, but is now finding a mass-market application in supply chain and asset management systems. Currently, the majority of focus is at the palette or case level while individual RFID tagging is reserved...

Tags: transaction processing, rfid, managed, elements

[17 Apr 2008]

Google and Salesforce.com team up to serve business

News Photos: RFID bumblebees create a buzz Salesforce.com and Google have announced they're linking up to offer Google Apps integrated with Salesforce.com's CRM applications. The companies announced that Salesforce.com's customers now have the option of...

Tags: salesforce, google

[14 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! tests the Google route to advertising bliss

News Photos: RFID bumblebees create a buzz Yahoo! will test the use of Google advertisements on some of its search pages, the companies have said, a move that raises the possibility of a significant departure from Yahoo!

Tags: yahoo, google

[10 Apr 2008]

RFID Technology in Retail

whitepaper Read about RFID technology - radio frequency identification - and how this technology is already demonstrating measurable results that are dramatically transforming how business is conducted for both retailers and their suppliers.

Tags: transmission interference, retailers, rfid, reducing

[10 Apr 2008]

RFID White Paper

whitepaper In general terms, RFID is a means of identifying a person or object using a radio frequency transmission. In basic terms, an RFID transponder will identify itself when it detects a signal from a compatible device, known as a reader or interrogator...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, terms, rfid system, transmission

[10 Apr 2008]

RFID: Proceed With Caution

whitepaper At the first conference dedicated to the technology, researchers worldwide launched the Electronic Product Code Network, an open technology infrastructure that uses RFID. Radio-frequency identification is quickly moving from hype to reality.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, frequency, characteristics, dedicated

[10 Apr 2008]

RFID for Asset Management at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

whitepaper Museum Boijmans wanted to integrate the RFID system with their current registry system. The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in The Netherlands has been giving considerable attention to their collection registry system for many years.

Tags: asset management, objects, tag, registry

[10 Apr 2008]

RF Identification: RFID - Innovative Silicon Solutions

whitepaper Atmel, a pioneer in the RFID area, provided the industry? s first read-only RFID ICs at the end of the 80? Through continuous improvement and innovation, Atmel is able to present a product scope that covers all semiconductors required for a...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, rfid, ics, frequency

[10 Apr 2008]

RFID: A Call to Action

whitepaper Companies slow to warm to RFID would be wise to get a plan in place right away and start down that road, advises Aberdeen Group in this Perspective report. Those that adopt a wait-and-see attitude to try to avoid the risks inherent in such a new...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, wal mart, aberdeen, rfid

[10 Apr 2008]

Conventional and Low Cost RFID: The Smart Label Revolution

whitepaper Nowadays Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a term used for any device that can be sensed at a distance by radio frequencies with few problems of obscuration or misorientation. For example, one type of REMOSO chipless RFID tag works at only a...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, frequency, radio, hertz

[10 Apr 2008]

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