The company offers its developer tools to companies seeking an RFID solution—complying with the ISO 18000-7 RFID standard for 433 MHz active tags—to enhance their own hardware or software product.

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Ekahau badges and call buttons enable employees at two Portuguese health-care facilities to quickly identify the location of an emergency.

The Swedish eTrace project used EPC Gen 2 RFID tags and EPCIS software to document the fishes' provenance—which served to reassure consumers and thus boost sales.

A new steel-shrouded UHF EPC Gen 2 tag, developed by Technologies ROI, can be welded to metal pipes or tools for the oil and gas, construction or other heavy industrial sectors, and is built to sustain abuse.

The facility responsible for maintaining equipment and supplies aboard "maritime prepositioning ships" is deploying long-range Omni-ID EPC Gen 2 tags to expedite the loading and unloading of cargo.

Nokia pledges all new smart-phone models will come with NFC; Broadcom announces plans to buy Innovision Research & Technology; 1st Choice Security Solutions and AATSI introduce transportation temperature-monitoring system; NFC Forum announces Global Competition 2010 winners; Hi-G-Tek, Navisat Telematics implement electronic tracking for cargo security; Bibliotheca to provide RFID system to 54-library consortium in N.Y.

The reusable plastic mugs contain a passive high-frequency tag enabling consumers to pay for beverages and earn discounts, as well as avoid the consumption of disposable paper cups and plastic lids.

Inside the Information and Communications Pavilion, as many as 8,000 visitors at any given time are provided with "information communications terminals" that determine their locations within the building, and provide a personalized experience.

The nation's RFID sector is churning out new products and applications, with an emphasis on EPC Gen 2 technology.

The RFID system enables the hospital to know when discharged patients fail to comply with their prescription regimen, or when side effects occur.

NXP joins RFID/NFC carbon emissions tracking program; Spartanics lab offers laser die-cutting services to tag and label makers; IDTronic intros UHF RFID and Bluetooth mobile reader; Cybra sees 30-40 percent revenue growth in 2010 as RFID market strengthens; LaserCard supplies next-generation green cards with RFID to U.S. DHS; Carl's Jr. hamburger franchise and Tetherball roll out RFID rewards program.

Within the next few months, users of the company's 3.5 million plant trolleys will begin receiving custom-designed passive tags that lock onto each cart, with the goal of improving inventory control and reducing shrinkage and counterfeiting.

The Mallorca-based blood bank is deploying an RFID system from Aifos Solutions, including EPC Gen 2 tags and readers from Alien Technology, to track bags of blood and its derivatives—from donor to hospital.

The system takes advantage of passive tags already embedded in student IDs, to automate what is currently a manual process, saving time for instructors of large classes.

Participating hunters are applying RFID tags to animals harvested in the field, in order to improve traceability and the recording of health-related information.

The system, developed at Bombay Veterinary College, combines RFID and cell-phone technologies to track data related to cow and water buffalo health in small farms.

Damco joins Dash7 Alliance; NXP opens RFID application and system center in China; Cubic acquires assets of Impeva Labs; DeviceFidelity announces mobile contactless payment solution for iPhone; Arbor Technology intros rugged tablet PC with HF RFID reader; Avera McKennan expands use of Versus RTLS to surgery center.

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.

To highlight rapidly evolving RFID solutions, the company will hold a live 30-minute presentation by one RFID technology vendor every Friday at 2 pm Eastern time.