Latin America Gets Serious About RFID-End users at RFID Journal LIVE! LatAm were highly engaged and eager to explore how radio frequency identification can improve the way they do business. |
RFID Consortium Releases Patent-Licensing Portfolio-The program enables vendors of UHF passive RFID tags and readers to purchase licenses through a patent pool, reducing the time and cost associated with negotiating individual patent agreements, and potentially enabling them to introduce new products sooner. |
Dash7 Alliance Working on New Specification, Tags for ISO 18000-7-The group has introduced a new specification, known as Mode 2, for ISO approval, that would allow the integration of 433 MHz active and 13.56 MHz passive RFID on a single tag. It would also enable tag-to-tag transmission, and make possible a range of new applications. |
Dash7 Alliance Offers Test Methods, Tools for ISO 18000-7 Developers-By offering its own certification suite, at the same time that National Technology is selling test tools for Dash7 certification, the organization hopes to help developers properly test their own active RFID technology before taking it to Met Labs to be certified. |
RFID Journal LIVE! 2010 Report, Part 2-Approximately 2,500 industry professionals gathered last month at RFID Journal's eighth annual conference and exhibition, to learn from organizations using RFID to improve their operations. View the presentations from the event's main conference track sessions. |
GS1 Group Completes Early Phase of E-Pedigree Model-The organization's 2015 Readiness Program includes 50 companies in the pharmaceutical supply chain simulating the movement of products from a manufacturer to a drug store, as well as the electronic data that is captured, stored and shared along the way. |
RFID Journal LIVE! 2010 Report, Part 1-Approximately 2,500 industry professionals gathered last month at RFID Journal's eighth annual conference and exhibition, to learn from organizations using RFID to improve their operations. View the presentations from the event's keynotes, general sessions and preconference seminars, as well as the RFID Journal Awards. |
Tracking Goods and Sensors-A new air interface protocol that connects RFID sensors with the EPCglobal network will play a pivotal role in realizing the Internet of Things. |
RFID Finally Cleared for Takeoff-Adoption of industry standards and development of high-memory RFID tags mean airplane-parts tracking—among suppliers, manufacturers, airlines and maintenance companies—is poised for flight. Next on the tarmac: benefits for all stakeholders. |
A Decade of Progress-An RFID evangelist, cheerleader and agent provocateur shares his views on the industry's failures and successes during the past 10 years. |