The Medical City (TMC), a tertiary care hospital in the Philippines, has deployed a location-enabled, real-time hand hygiene compliance tracking solution to ensure the safety of all its patients and staff members. The real-time hospital measurement system combines Excelion Technology’s Accreditrack software and CenTrak’s real-time location system to measure hand hygiene compliance while adhering to […]

Intermec, a manufacturer of data capture devices for use in logistics, transportation, retail and industrial sectors, has embedded the AS3993 ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID reader from AMS (Austria Mikro Systeme) in its 70 Series of rugged, handheld computers. The 70 Series, which includes the CN70 RFID, CN70e RFID and CK70 RFID, is a family of […]

Identive Group Inc. announced RFID labels for the medical industry that are specially designed to withstand the radiation processes commonly used to sterilize medical devices, equipment and supplies. The new radiation-resistant labels enable critical identification, usage and tracking information to reside on medical components and storage containers throughout their useful lives, adapting the technology to […]

MasterCard Worldwide announced a record growth of its contactless payments technology, MasterCard PayPass, across the Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) region in 2012, citing a 28% year-over-year (YoY) increase in merchant locations. MasterCard’s PayPass contactless payment network now boasts nearly 700,000 merchant locations in 51 countries as of Q4 2012. Growth data reflects a […]

Smartrac has announced the introduction of its new ultra-high frequency (UHF) EPC compliant WebLite with Impinj Monza 5 IC, a well suited solution for item-level retail, logistics, and supply chain applications. With an antenna size of only 46 x 15 mm (1.8″ x 0.6″) and a 128-bit EPC, 48-bit serialized TID, the Smartrac WebLite enables […]

Truecount RFID and TAGIT-EAS announced a joint partnership to create a new “singlet tag/single application” solution for advanced inventory management and loss protection for the retail industry and supply chain. This new electronic article tracking and surveillance system will combine Truecount’s item-level RFID software with TAGIT-EAS’s Electro Magnetic (EM) systems to create a single system […]

Trimble introduced the ThingMagic Astra-EX, an addition to its integrated ultra-high frequency RFID reader/antenna product family. Driven by ThingMagic’s high-performance Mercury6e (M6e) module and designed for enterprise and commercial applications, Astra-EX is easy to install and integrate with corporate IT infrastructures and blends well with enterprise lay-outs. Astra-EX builds on the capabilities of the first […]

TagMaster has received additional orders for its XT-3HD long-range RFID reader from the Swedish Rail Administration (Swedish: Trafikverket). The first readers were supplied to Trafikverket under the supply contract issued to TagMaster and its system integrator Swarco at the end of 2011. The RFID readers are being rolled out by Trafikverket as part of its […]

GS1 US and the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions (VICS) Association, two supply-chain standards organizations serving multiple industry sectors, have signed a memorandum of understanding to merge their operations. The merger is designed to streamline the standards adoption process for the industry and give the not-for-profit organizations’ members access to standards for a broader range of […]

GAO RFID now offers an ultra-high frequency semi-passive temperature logger tag, suited for recording temperatures of sensitive food products and chemical/pharmaceutical products during transportation and storage. The compact data logger, model 116045, provides a large memory capacity – up to 8000 temperature samples – with programmable sampling times. Once programmed, the unit will monitor temperature […]