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Beyond Product Codes: New Opportunities for Radio Frequency Identification Technology - The Market Possibilities Opened Up by Low-Cost, Customizable RFID Tags
White Papers 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 areas like smart ticketing and access control.
[April 14, 2009, 0:00]
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID): Drivers, Challenges and Public Policy Considerations
White Papers Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is one of several automatic identification sensor-based technologies consisting of three key elements: RFID tags; RFID readers (transceivers); and a data collection, distribution, and management system that...
[May 10, 2006, 1:00]
Marks & Spencer tags shirts with RFID
News Retailer Marks & Spencer has begun a trial of radio frequency identification tags in clothes at one of its UK stores this week as part of plans to improve stock accuracy and product availability for customers.
[October 17, 2003, 8:55]
HP unwraps RFID package
News Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags are chips that are armed with antennas and provide detailed information about the products to which they are attached. Hewlett-Packard unveiled on Monday services for companies trying to start radio...
[May 11, 2004, 8:55]
IBM introduces RFID tools
News IBM is betting on new software to make sense of the reams of data collected by radio frequency identification (RFID) devices. Liard, a research director who covers radio frequency identification for ABI Research.
[December 18, 2006, 11:35]
RFID gets manufacturing push from IBM
News IBM announced two new sets of radio frequency identification services on Tuesday that target companies in the industrial and manufacturing sectors, as well as midsize retail suppliers. IBM asserts that by tailoring its radio tag services for each...
[September 14, 2004, 18:00]
The future of Radio Frequency Identification
News Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is in the limelight. The range of sensing RFID tags from an RFID reader can vary from a few centimetres to a few metres depending on the frequency of operation and the type of tags.
[August 18, 2003, 14:55]
Supermarket shopping gets smart tech
News In a related development, Gillette announced on Monday that it agreed to purchase 500 million so-called radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, which contain the special microchips that can communicate wirelessly with computers when in the...
[January 9, 2003, 12:19]
ID chips pressed into laundered clothes
News The Laundry Transponder, from TI Radio Frequency Identification Systems, is a thin 13.56MHz radio frequency identification (RFID) chip with a circumference of 22mm that can be attached or sewn into fabric.
[August 12, 2003, 12:10]
RFID blocker may ease privacy fears
News The labs at RSA Security on Wednesday outlined plans for a technology they call blocker tags, which are similar in size and cost to radio frequency identification (RFID) tags but disrupt the transmission of information to scanning devices and...
[August 28, 2003, 11:05]
Webinar: RFID for Defense Suppliers
White Papers This webinar is an opportunity to understand the Department of Defense's recent proposed regulations requiring suppliers to identify shipments with radio frequency identification tags. This webcast is for managers and executives in the defense...
[January 5, 2006, 23:00]
Understanding the Key Issues in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
White Papers Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an automated data collection (ADC) system that enables businesses to wirelessly capture and move data using radio waves. A typical system consists of "tags" with an embedded, unique identifier for the...
[August 2, 2005, 0:00]
Survey on Adoption and Potential Application of RFID in the Government
White Papers This paper summarizes the present deployment of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology and discusses the potential applications in the Government. Such mandate has led to increased demand on RFID and thus, the costs of RFID tags and...
[May 10, 2006, 1:00]
RFID Essentials: An Introduction to RFID
White Papers RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification, a term that describes any system of identification wherein an electronic device that uses radio frequency or magnetic field variations to communicate is attached to an item.
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
Weizmann Institute of Science Books RFID Into Its Libraries
White Papers Working alongside Intel and local Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) system integrator Galbital, the institute has embarked upon a pioneering RFID pilot study at its Goldschleger Life Sciences and Chemistry library.
[May 17, 2007, 1:00]
Adaptive Power Control Protocol With Hardware Implementation for Wireless Sensor and RFID Reader Networks
White Papers The development and deployment of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems render a novel distributed sensor network which enhances visibility into manufacturing processes. Consequently, Medium Access Protocols (MAC) protocols are needed for...
[April 14, 2009, 0:00]
RFID Decision Time
White Papers Say what one will about Wal-Mart (and people say a lot), but since announcing its intent to transform the retail supply chain by using Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology and demanding that its suppliers do the same, the company has...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
Portugal takes RFID tags to dogs
News Once a tech industry darling, radio-frequency identification tags have officially gone to the dogs. On Friday, Digital Angel, which sells RFID scanning and communications tools for tracking everything from airplanes to farm animals, announced that...
[July 26, 2004, 9:15]
Anti-RFID tags protect privacy
News Computer-security software maker RSA Security on Tuesday introduced a new technology for protecting information emitted by radio frequency identification tags. RFID tags, whose descriptive information is read via radio frequency technology, are...
[February 25, 2004, 7:35]
Benetton considers chip plans
News Sartor said Benetton has completed technology tests of radio frequency identification to help in the improvement of supply chain management, but it is still testing the economics of RFID and whether it is cost efficient to replace the bar code...
[April 7, 2003, 8:39]
