Nortel has a plan for municipal governments

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 […]


Car thieves in Malaysia now up against RFID

Malaysia has decided to turn to RFID to combat car-theft. Thirty luxury cars are stolen daily in Malaysia. Car license plates will now be embedded with microchips that will contain information about the vehicle and its owner.
The government hopes that this will bring down the number of car thefts in the country and tracing stolen […]

Passport tagging initiative in the US runs into rough weather

The US Department of State decision to use Gen2 technology for RFID-enabling passports has met with opposition by the Smart Card Alliance. The SCA counts in its ranks many top notch tech firms and it believes that the passport tagging better achieved using the ISO/IEC 14443 standard which is a standard for smart cards and […]

Innovative RFID Applications: Traffic Control

If you live in or have driven in and around either Toronto, Canada, or Atlanta, Georgia, USA, you know how awful traffic is. In Toronto, it take can some out-of-town commuters two hours or more to get to work in the morning, and longer to get home on bad days. And that’s by car. Atlanta […]