Part 1 of this special report on the use of RFID in the healthcare industry explained the Micro-Modular approach to using RFID in healthcare. In Part 2, the authors detail the processes involved in ...

Reader Juan Carlos Ramirez sent me a link to Time magazine’s Best Inventions of 2008, noting that two included the use of radio frequency identification. One invention cited was Montreal’s Public Bike ...

At every turn, networks must handle additional traffic from new sources. One of the latest and soon-to-rise sources of increased network traffic arises from the implementation of radio frequency ...

After barcodes were put into use more than 50 years ago, the technology revolutionized the grocery business. The technology also revolutionized nearly everything else in the supply chain and logistics ...

Mark Twain once advised his readers “never to pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” You decide what happens when two barrels of electronic ink are involved. A few weeks ago this ...

If you have ever shopped at a Uniqlo store, you've likely been as amazed as I have by the automated checkout: You put all your items in a basket, and they are instantly scanned rather than needing ...

The worldwide market for integrated RFID systems was worth €1bn in 2002 and will be worth €2.5bn in 2007 representing a five year CAGR of 20 per cent. Driving the market is th ...

Walmart (NYSE:WMT) and Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) announced a strategic collaboration on Wednesday to implement a new radio-frequency identification technology in Walmart's (NYSE:WMT) fresh food ...

UPS announced at the recent Modex conference in Atlanta the expansion of RFID-based package sensing across its entire network. While UPS claims it is the first rollout of RFID sensing across an entire ...

Unlike fashion, the technology industry doesn’t often look to trends and ideas from the past to define its future. But in the case of RFID, that’s exactly the phenomenon we’ve been observing over the ...