According to survey study by Synergistics Research Corp., fingerprint scanning gets the thumbs up as a security measure. The study of 1,000 consumers 18 or older indicates that 75% are more concerned with security issues than five years previous. Also, 40% of those surveyed selected fingerprint scanning as the method they were most comfortable with, […]

This is a summary of recent RFID and biometrics news.
RFID Posters
RFID in Japan has pictures of RFID posters deployed at a Japanese subway station. Information from the posters are transferred to cell phones when activated by an RFID-enabled rider ticket.
Thwart Exam Cheaters
RFID is being employed by a student exam board, Edexcel, in the UK to […]

A brief news bulletin on important RFID happenings since the first day of the New Year.
Bank of America will carry out a test to gauge public interest in its new endeavor where customers will be able to make payments using keychain fobs that will contain RFID inlays. The fobs will be issued by Oberthur Card […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Rocket, a Korean battery manufacturer, has revealed a new paper thin battery that doesn’t include any toxic chemicals and manages to be flexible.  The aim of the new battery?  To power RFID tags embedded in things such as movie posters and other types of media.
Asides powering RFID tags, Rocket are also pitching their battery at […]

The origins of RFID, or Radio Frequency IDentification, vary depending on whom you ask, but it’s recorded that the US military used radio frequency equipment for identification during World War II. (Radio frequency experiments in general date back into the late 1800s.) Non-defense uses of RFID were popularized by the tagging of wild animals starting […]