Staples Business Depot isn’t new to RFID. Last year, the 270-store Canadian unit of Staples Inc., and a supplier of office products, business machines, office furniture and business services, ...

Supply chain optimization is now an imperative for corporations. Unfortunately, current track-and-trace functionality does not cover the end-to-end supply chain. The greatest impediment to a complete ...

The project creates a prototype active RFID tracking system which makes use of mesh networking wherein only a single reader needs to be connected physically to a PC. The project creates a prototype ...

The use of battery-powered wireless products in tagging and tracking applications is rising sharply, according to new data from a British consulting firm. “Active RFID” uses almost any wireless ...

Suited for field programmable tags, the G2C501 active radio RFID SoC incorporates a 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.11b PHY/MAC, a fully programmable industry-standard 32-bit CPU, 64-Kbyte RAM, and 2-Kbyte ...

ItemAware is a tool and asset tracking system that uses RFID and other technologies to tag tools or other items and pair them with a beacon location (truck, shed, jobsite and more). Ring Power, a ...

A passive RFID has no independent power source but comes to life when going through a scanner, for example. Obviously RFID scanners are also part of the DataGuard RF kit and they come in two models, a ...

A new white paper by Dr. Peter Green examines the tradeoffs between using barcode and RFID scanning for tracking work-in-process in manufacturing plants For efficient tracking of work-in-process you ...

The state of Colorado is testing radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to see if they can help protect elk herds from contagious diseases. Working with three ranchers and an animal-tracking ...