Manage Data Successfully With RFID Anywhere Edge Processing
White Papers This paper outlines the problems with such architectures and explains the RFID Anywhere solution. RFID technology introduces several challenges - with one of the most daunting being how to handle the vast quantities of data it generates.
[February 9, 2006, 23:00]
RFID And The Internet Of Things
White Papers RFID is a technology for identifying people and assets without human intervention, enabling computer systems to not only identify objects, but also understand their status. Like smart cards, RFID has created some controversy in its early...
[February 9, 2006, 23:00]
RFID Luggage Tags Mooted
News Ditching bar-coded bag tags for RFID tracking chips could slash the annual $1bn bill for lost passenger baggage, according to airline industry IT body SITA. A SITA report into the use of RFID by airports claims the use of the tiny tracking chips...
[February 24, 2005, 11:00]
RFID To Track Airport Passengers
News A new RFID tag has been designed and its inventors claim it could improve airport security by tracking passengers as they mingle in the departure lounge. The plan is to issue every passenger with an RFID tag at check-in so human traffic can be...
[October 16, 2006, 9:50]
Business RFID Strategy
White Papers The RFID strategy is applicable whether big or small business because RFID is going to be found anywhere in the near future. An RFID strategy provides an outline to use the technology aligned with an enterprise's strategic visions and goals.
[July 10, 2007, 0:00]
Sybase Updates RFID Software Lineup
News The starting cost for the product is $50,000 (£26,000), and it includes Sybase's RFID Anywhere software, which can communicate with different RFID hardware. Sybase on Monday released server software tuned to gather data from RFID devices and...
[April 12, 2005, 15:20]
IfM Case Study: The BOC Group
White Papers The Cambridge Auto ID Centre, based within the IfM, is conducting research into RFID technology involving the design, building, testing and deployment of a global infrastructure that will make it possible for computers to identify any object...
[December 23, 2004, 23:00]
I-CODE Supports Innovative Data Tracking In Hospitals
White Papers This innovative solution uses combination of WLAN and RFID communications to input and extract data from the system. Systems proven here will work anywhere else in the hospital. In any hospital the most complex and demanding working environment can...
[May 10, 2006, 0:00]
Privacy Activists Call For Rules On RFID
News They also worry about the possibility that companies, governments and would-be thieves might be able to monitor people's personal belongings, embedded with tiny RFID microchips, after they are purchased.
[August 19, 2003, 9:30]
Manufacturers Go For RFID, But Not Linux
News Manufacturers in Europe and North America are finally getting turned on to RFID - but they're jumping rather than being pushed. With 60 percent of manufacturers already under way with an RFID project, Datamonitor analyst and report author Richard...
[April 28, 2005, 10:00]
Is The Mis-use Of IT Destroying Our Civil Liberties?
Forum Former PM Tony Blair and his successor have already shown their support for a national DNA database holding DNA for every UK citizen and the Home Office IPS (Identity & Passport Service) are also looking at RFID implants.
[September 19, 2007, 17:32]
Can You Hide From Accenture?
News And in some cases it's just people not understanding, I hear a lot of concerns about RFID where people worry about being scanned and someone getting all their personal details. So, the next one we built was an RFID system to track the life cycle of...
[August 15, 2005, 14:25]
The Year Ahead: Top Ten Technologies To Watch
News RFID Gillette's just ordered half a billion RFID chips to put on its razors: one day soon, you'll be walking around with enough transponders in your clothing and stuff you bought to be tracked from Mars.
[December 25, 2002, 6:13]
Wireless Credit Card In Development
News Radio-frequency identification (RFID) has been the wireless technology most in the public eye, as its use in inventory tracking has raised privacy concerns. The Philips and Visa partnership will be working on wireless technology with a shorter...
[May 29, 2003, 11:20]
IPass Gets Onboard With Train Wi-Fi
Talkback TriaGnoSys GmbH and MobinTeleCom Oy of Helsinki have jointly created an end-to-end security concept to deliver 24x7 Wireless Telematics GSM-GPRS-GPS-RFID to monitor Container Door Seals, on land as well during deep sea voyage, to monitor...
[September 23, 2004, 5:23]
NEC Develops Ultra-thin Battery For Mobile
News If the ORB was used in an active RFID device, it could support tens of thousands of signal transmissions on a single charge, the company said. NEC hopes that the new battery will "be used extensively in the future to power all kinds of tiny...
[December 9, 2005, 15:50]
