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 ...

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 ...

Without a doubt, adoption and use of radio frequency identification (RFID) accelerated dramatically when Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense gave their respective suppliers marching orders to ...

To date, public discussion of privacy and RFID has been at a superficial level, focusing on the effective range of readers and the ability to disable the tags. This limited scope mirrors the ...

Let’s start with the welcome surprise. The most divisive aspect of RFID hasn’t been implementation. Cliff Horwitz, chairman of RFID reader manufacturer SAMSys, describes the problem: “As long as we ...

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) has been a highly touted technology in recent years, but concerns — particularly among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) — about high costs and actual ...

Retail and pharmacy – two very different industries that, on the surface, might not appear to have much in common. However, the two fields have found a use for an emerging technology to solve very ...

Radio frequency identification technology (RFID) vendors are now seeing demand from a wider range of end users for a broader range of applications — from ID and access control to asset tracking, ...

RFID chips have quietly migrated from factory floors into the rubber that meets the road, turning tires into data points long before most drivers noticed. The technology has been embedded in products ...

Frying pans, pill bottles, canes, coffee cups, and countless other nonelectronic objects could be turned into a network of Internet of Things sensors with a new RFID-based technology from the ...

Delta Air Lines Inc. and The Boeing Co. next month plan to start testing the use of radio frequency identification tags to track airplane engine parts — a trial run that may herald widespread RFID ...

The first three applications contain explicitly personal information. Every time these tags are read, personal information is emitted. The reader's ability to detect the presence of a tag is an ...