QinetiQ and Crown Holdings, Inc. have come together in a development program that will hopefully lead to the adaptation of the Omni-ID™ integrated Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology by QinetiQ in the metal packaging industry. This has implications for the tracking of objects at the single item level using UHF tags.
RFID tagging on metal is […]
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 […]
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 […]
Safe Surgery Systems has bagged the contract for providing an RFID-based patient identification system to the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. The purpose of the RFID system will be to mistake-proof the clinical journey of the patients. The importance of that for surgery patients can scarcely be overstated. Patients will be given RFID-tagged wristbands […]
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 […]
FinnAir is using RFID in an innovative way: managing the assignment of employee tasks. Employees use an RFID-enabled Nokia 51401 phone to read off their tasks from one of various locations hosting RFID tags. Their work details are transmitted to their phones, which can then view on their screens. The solution uses IBM’s WebSphere middleware […]
Many people have already debated whether or not RFID (radio frequency identification) can be used to track people. Generally speaking, the answer is no - at least not in real-time. RFID can tell where you have been, if you are carrying something with an RF tag, say an employee card, and have passed through a […]