Syscan International, an RFID solutions provider focusing on the food, drug, and health care industries, has announced it will suffer a net loss of $1.2 million for the year. The 2008 annual loss is up from $1.1 million in 2007. The loss comes despite a substantial rise in sales for year, up to $3.8 million […]

Palo Alto-based Blue Vector Systems has announced that Walgreens will integrate its software and infrastructure solutions in a large-scale RFID supply chain system deployment. Walgreen’s RFID system is intended to replace all paper and bar code scanning during shipment loading, with the goal of achieving complete shipment accuracy from distribution center to retail store. The […]

Canadian consulting firm RFID ProSolutions has teamed with Chicago-based RFID manufacturer RFID Solutions to create a multi-platform authentication program for the Canadian market. The technology platform, Trusted eSentry Security (TES), combines facial recognition, RFID and other options to create a security product aimed at the aerospace, drug manufacturing and finance industries. The standard version of […]

SecureRF Corporation has announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has extended its grant funding research to develop secure RFID tags for the pharmaceutical industry. The NSF Small Business Innovation Research grant has funded research by SecureRF to create security protocols for UHF passive tags that will protect prescription drugs. The company is partnering with […]

Bluehill ID AG, a Swiss-based company specializing in RFID and other automatic identification technologies, has announced the successful completion of its acquisitions of Multicard AG and TagStar Systems GmbH. Multicard, also based in Switzerland, is an ID technology focusing on the programming and issuance of ID cards. In early 2008, Multicard completed its own acquisition […]

Advanced ID Corporation, specialists in RFID solutions for the tire industry as well as animal tracking, has announced its expansion in the Latin American market with the formation of Advanced ID Brazil Ltd., a partnership with its largest Brazilian distributor. Advanced ID will hold a 20% interest in the Brazilian company, referred to as AIDO […]

According to a new study, an individual pharmacy faces a price tag of between $84,000 and $110,000 to implement RFID systems which meet proposed federal safety mandates. This represents an average of 0.88% of annual sales for pharmacies; a figure which the industry group behind the report says is too much. The study, prepared by […]

Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has launched a trial of a robotic, RFID-enabled medication dispensing system, the first of its kind in Canada. The PharmaTrust Dispensary, developed by Ontario-based PCA Services Inc., will operate within Sunnybrook’s pharmacy for three-month evaluation of patient experience with the automated dispensing process. The PharmaTrust Dispensary can stock up to […]

Certain types of radio frequency identification tags can cause electromagnetic interference with medical equipment, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The report cautions facilities to check for interference from an RFID system before deploying it. The study examined the impact of 125-kHz and 868-MHz frequencies on medical equipment. The […]

Cephalon Inc. has selected OAT’s RFID solution for serialized shipment container tracking, extending its SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure for RFID reach to operational processes and workflows. Cephalon is an international biopharmaceutical company that has been testing RFID technology for the past three years to improve supply chain efficiency and visibility. RFID serialized container tracking will support […]