Many applications are now using radio frequency (RF) chip technology to automatically identify objects or people. These applications range from tracking animals and tagging goods for inventory control ...

With heightened competition and employment costs on the rise, companies are finding relief by taking advantage of vehicle-mounted printing and data-collection devices to make their operations run more ...

For some 10 years, we’ve been speaking about RFID at health-care seminars and workshops. To a steadily growing group of attendees, we’ve explained how RFID could help hospitals cut costs and improve ...

RFID (radio-frequency-identification) technology has the potential to become a common and important element in embedded-system design. In addition to the traditional role of the technology in ...

Regulatory standards are useful to all types of business organizations and for governments. Standards can ensure the minimum level of product characteristics such as quality, interoperability, ...

Take a look at the average Joe's key chain, and you're apt to see radio frequency identification (RFID) technology hard at work. Have one of those sensors for buying gas at the pump or an access card ...

With proven installations for high-profile early adopters, RFID (radio frequency identification) refuses to be pigeonholed as a niche application technology. Integrated Solutions, November 2001 ...

In last month's column, I discussed how total solutions providers will increasingly drive RFID innovation and adoption. Now, I would like to elaborate on how three very different industries are ...

RFID is a proven enabler of profitability that's growing more powerful every day. Microchip sensitivity is improving. Support services are maturing. Companion technologies, such as sensors, are being ...

Checkpoint Systems, Inc., a leading provider of radio frequency-based product identification and shrink management solutions for retailers and consumer package goods manufacturers, has presented ...

Wireless security, an increasingly important factor across the electronics landscape, will open the door to a multitude of NFC-related applications. Near-field communications (NFC), previously ...

Radio-frequency identification--the emerging technology that involves small, cheap electronic tags, wireless RFID readers, and related infrastructure--promises to revolutionize supply chains and usher ...