Nortel has plans in the offing for providing municipalities to use RFID along with their existing Wi-Fi infrastructure already in place. This will help municipal governments to track the movement of their assets and in RTLS. The equipment provided by Nortel will enable wireless Internet service providers to build wireless broadband networks with the help […]
In a very interesting trial being held in Japan, the famous shopping neighborhood of Ginza is being blanketed by 10,000 RFID tags to see if they help in giving location-related information to visitors to that area. The exercise is being carried out under the Tokyo Ubiquitous Network Project and participants will be handed out prototype […]
A new study released by ChainLink Research has thrown up an interesting fact regarding RFID adoption. Most companies will add RFID to their setups in order to benefit from the technology and not necessarily to meet customer mandates.
This is a bit of a surprise because customers in this case include giants like the U.S DoD […]
Herding, which is a Germany-based company manufacturing industrial air-filtering systems, has announced that they expect to get an ROI on its RFID investments in 2007, 3 years after the company implemented RFID in 2004. With RFID, the company has replaced the pen-and-paper methods used for returning refitted air filters to the owners. The company uses […]
[commentary] Consumerist writes [via LifeHacker] about a bank who threw out a customer for refusing to supply a fingerprint. WTF?! Seems Bank of America’s rules state that thumbprints must be given if a consumer wants to cash a cheque and they are not a BoA customer. Even if the cheque is issued from a BoA […]
Now that the year is drawing to a close, Taggedplanet reviews a few new introductions from 2006.
2006 saw Gen 2 tags gaining a firm hold, which is good news for the retail supply chain. Interoperability is improving and better quality tag silicon is now available. Interest in item-level tagging is picking up, which is crucial […]
According to IDTechEX 2006 was supposed to be the year in which RFID was expected to gain a footing in the retail industry. However, this is not how things have turned out and it does not look like 2007 will be any different. The main hurdles are high cost of tags and technical drawbacks in […]
Even though the business case for RFID is supposed to be strong, the technology is still not on a firm footing; ABI Research says that the reason for this is that the unit price of the RFID tags is still more than what the businesses would like it to be. The situation is a bit […]
Analyst firm Frost and Sullivan reports that the RFID printer and encoder market is set to grow at the rate of more than 50% per annum and the market in 2012 will be worth $209.3 million. This is a quantum leap from the market size in 2005, which was a mere $10.7 million. The reason […]
AdvantaPure has come up with RFID tags that are resistant to gamma radiation, GammaTag as the tag is called will allow pharma companies to start tagging before the sterilization process. The tags will be absorb radiation up to 45 kilograys. Many sterilization processes require gamma-irradiation and till now RFID tags had failed to absorb the […]