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Perspectives on RFID in pharmaceuticals | Healthcare Packaging
Perspectives on RFID in pharmaceuticals
RFID is a tool that can benefit pharmaceutical manufacturers from clinical trials through to the commercial supply chain.
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The U.S. Food & Drug Administration and Walmart provided a powerful boost for early adoption of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in pharmaceutical packaging to strengthen track-and-trace and anti-counterfeiting...
Date: 2018-01-12 08:49:25
RFID smart shelves and cabinets | Healthcare Packaging
RFID-enabled shelving permits item-level tracking at the store level to give retailers precise control to help reduce out-of-stocks. Several years ago Wal-Mart considered testing smart shelves, but an outcry involving privacy issues caused the retailer to abruptly drop the development.
Chief executive officer Bob Scher of RFID vendor and consultancy Dynasys isn't optimistic about the viability of...
Date: 2019-04-10 23:11:47
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RFID in Healthcare Consortium forms | Healthcare Packaging
Organized under the auspices of The RFID Educational Foundation, the RFID in Healthcare Consortium recently formed to promote the understanding of, and where appropriate, the adoption of radio-frequency identification technology for the benefit of the healthcare community. Harry Pappas, CEO and founder of the RFID Educational Foundation, says the Consortium includes a steering committee...
Date: 2019-04-10 23:16:51
Related topics : rfid in healthcare consortium / rfid technology in the healthcare industry / rfid technology in healthcare / radio frequency identification device rfid technology / radio frequency identification technology (rfid)
RFID smart shelves and cabinets | Healthcare Packaging
"But the only way you can make smart shelves work effectively is if the packaged products are very predictable in how they're placed within the shelf or cabinet," Scher explains. "They've got to be tagged in a predictable way, and they've got to be stored in a predictable way."
Scher says it can be done at high-frequency or ultra-high frequency, HF or UHF, 13.56 MHz or 915 MHz, respectively, though the latter must be near-field UHF.
One prototype that Dynasys developed was for an RFID-enabled smart cabinet the size...
Date: 2017-03-04 01:25:33
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