Happy New Year 2007

The New Year is just a few hour away. We at Rfidtimes wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year. We wish that the year of 2007 bring along with it joys of light in your life and fulfill all your wishes.
Wishes for you and your family from Rfidtimes!!



RFID adoption by Reva

Reva syatems is a leading manufacturer of RFID network infrastructure. The company has announced the company’s Tag Acquisition Processor product passed EPCglobal compliance testing for Application-Level Events certification at MET Laboratories. The Application-Level Events would provide standard software for the collection as well as filtering RFID tag data before it is presented to applications
Reva has […]

RFID and Fridges - A Good Combination

Samsung Electronics is the second largest producer of home appliances form Korea is in the process of developing a futuristic refrigerator that is equipped with RFID. The refrigerator will be able to inform the owner as to which all supplies are running low.
According to Samsung spokesman Chae Hee-kook:

We are working on refrigerators wired for RFID. […]

Gambling made safer with RFID embedded Chips

RFID has found a use for itself in almost each and every space and field. Even gambling has been no exception. Recently it has been found that gambling chips have been embedded with alarm-triggering tracers. It is believed that the final product will be launched somewhere next week at the London ICE show.
The chips would […]

Expectations from the RFID Market for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul

Management supply chain efficiency is a great way for companies to gain advantage over their competitors. The Defense and aerospace companies are making use of RFID to gain this competitive advantage. The market for defense and aerospace is expected to reach $2 billion by the year 2011. The area that shows the maximum amount of […]

RFID Can Convert Mobile Phones to Thermometers

Now your cell phone will be able to read your body temperatures and also check your glucose levels. Gentag which is an IP development company is making efforts towards creating a technology which would convert your mobile handsets into universal RFID interrogators of passive tags. Also adhesive skin patches would be embedded with passive RFID […]

RFID Faces Stick in GAO Report over US-VISIT

A latest report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office has stated that Department of Homeland Security’s plans for U.S. Visitor’s Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program initiatives at U.S. land ports of entry are getting hampered by operational, strategic and technical challenges. The blame is being put on an RFID system for the poor performance. A […]

Drug Counterfeiting Creates Opportunities for the RFID Industry

Drug counterfeiting is a very big menace which has troubled all the pharma manufacturers around the world and it is expected that in order to control it the European industry would continue using RFID technology. Let me tell you that what causes counterfeiting are the deficiencies in the supply chain and also because of the […]

At CCC, Hackers get their Tags to follow them everywhere

In the year of 2006 the hackers were ripping the things to shred in about every metaphorical and physical sense. The attendees of this year’s Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin ten euros to don RFID tags to trace and track their movements in the conference hall.
Now how is it different from the never ending question […]

Municipal Wi-Fi Platform to have RFID-Enabled Services by Nortel

Nortel, a telecommunication manufacturer has decided to provide solutions that would help municipal governments to add RFID to their Wi-Fi solutions so that their infrastructure assets can be tracked and also as a real-time location system.
The company will build up a wireless broadband network with the help of WiMAX and Wi-Fi technology.In the month of […]