SecureRF receives SBIR grant to develop a secure, satellite-enabled, RFID system
Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher SecureRF Corporation has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) ... identification (RFID) system. The secure global RFID system is intended to verify the actual location ... protocol within an active RFID tag with GPS functions. For more information, see the press release [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 22:08:19
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Gugler Water Turbines GmbH(tags: waterenergysustainable) ... on a system scale for any port.(tags: softwareosxinternet) RFID Dorm Room Door Unlocking System ... (tags: photoshopphotographyonline) SnapterUse your digital camera as a mobile scanner to scan [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 04:03:13
RFID in Baroue Avenues
Thanks to an RFID-based tracking system, parents can drop off their kids at an indoor playground, ... by Mideast systems integrator TagStone using Ubisense RFID readers, tags and cameras and Ubisense’ ... s business development manager. rfid tag At the entrance to the Sea Serpent playground, each child [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 09:27:34
DEMO: Meet Alcatel-Lucent’s Services Play
While DEMO is primarily a showcase platform for standalone startups, well-established companies launch products there too. This year Alcatel-Lucent has brought an internal startup pushing an RFID tag reading system ... , tikitag is a set of RFID- and Near Field Communication-enabled tags and a corresponding reader [more...]
Date: 2008-09-06 08:19:40
RipoffReport.com for finding any negative before you buy Online!
Here’s an interesting site I came across today, it’s called RipoffReport ... in order to create a working history on the company or individual in question. better business bureau ... brings Web 2.0 Tagging to the Real World with RFID Tagging System! (1) rVita Launches ‘Nirvana’ [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 23:54:41
Weekly Newswire November 7th, 2008
Access this week's industry, legal, and policy news.. ... the county has chosen RFID technology, Dupuis says. The system uses passive tags from RFID Global ... with the decrease in the price of tags and readers. Further, implementation of RFID technology by ... RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 17:50:58
Tikitag will bring RFID tagging to all objects
Tikitag hasn’t been in prominence lately but the Alcatel-Lucent company made a pretty significant debut at DemoFall. In fact, the RFID tagging system will go into public beta soon and it’s looking promising ... of things,” and that assertion is pretty close to the truth. In fact, it will allow you to add an RFID tag [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 07:35:15
Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws
This is our 6,000th post on Wilson's Blogmanac. Thanks to Baz le Tuff for tipping me off about this story about RFID, ... before. The IDTechEx report Active RFID predicts that sales of active RFID systems, including tags ... s boom times ahead Sales of technologies based on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification, the automatic [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 21:45:34
How Do Radio Tagged Cards Work?
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems have three components: a small silicon microchip attached to an antenna; a reader and a computer database. The RFID tags themselves can be as small as half a millimeter square, the size of a tiny seed. Some are thin enough to be embedded in paper. Most tags today [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 15:54:58
Alien Technology RFID
As RFID expands into more applications, the simple knowledge that a given tag was seen at a certain read point is sometimes inadequate ... information about the tag. This capability enables the RFID system to enhance a number of fundamental applications of passive, Gen 2 RFID, and will open up many new applications and sources of ROI [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 15:00:00
Real Time Location Systems
Posted by: Paul DeBeasi Introduction Real-time location systems (RTLS) have been around for years ... of technology as described below: § RFID: Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems consist of low-cost electronic tags that can be interrogated by electronic readers. In most RFID environments [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 18:37:02
Tikitag: Personal Tagging
This isn’t the first idea of real-life geotagging but a new system called Tikitag certainly looks to be the most successful. Think of it as a personal RFID system with a receiver and some sticky tags. These are fully programmable in the sense that you can associate any URL with the RFID tag. Throw it on a pack of condoms [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 13:10:08
FDA on the attack against family farms
In the past few years we have suffered food contamination in products from China, Mexico and places unknown. Thanks to CAFTA ... and have no way of knowing where it came from, how it was produced or what the standards for processing were ... farms. This is a system of RFID tagging of every animal, even those not used for food, and a data [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 18:58:35
Tikitag promises to bring RFID tags to everything
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Wireless The Alcatel-Lucent-backed Tikitag certain has managed to keep a low profile until now, ... its RFID tagging system that’s apparently set to go into public beta in less than a month ... yahoo new laptops high tech cellphone ipod tech toy reviews imac gaming pc store tech geer gizmo toys [more...]
Date: 2008-09-08 23:08:29
Cool wireless application: no more waiting for hours in the ER
A friend of mine who works in the IT department of a large hospital says they are testing the expansion of their RFID and WiFi tracking system to ... through, he got stabbed a few times and was waiting for just as long. With our RFID each incoming ER patient gets tagged with an RFID wristband. Strips on the door of each stall/room read when a patient [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 16:57:34
Boston Tea Party 2008
The Boston Tea Party 2008 is happening this weekend in Boston.Tickets prices are $17.76 (what else?) ... and last year’s key note speakerDr. Katherine Albrecht who is leading the fight to stop RFID tagging and chipping. A new consumer goods tracking system called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is poised [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 15:31:00
UTSA CAMLS Holds Radio Frequency Identification Workshop
The University of Texas at San Antonio's Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean Systems (CAMLS) ... or transponders. RFID tags are objects that can be applied to or incorporated into a product, animal ... Association and held a one-day Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Workshop. RFID is an automatic [more...]
Date: 2008-06-13 19:03:36
RFID: An Internet of Things
Image via WikipediaCurrent rollouts of RFID tagging will be dwarfed by the future development of sensor networks, according to Robin Mannings, ... of Sun's integrated system includes RFID devices.Texas Instruments (TI) set up an automated demonstration ... BT futurologist and research foresight manager. "RFID is just the tip of the iceberg [more...]
Date: 2008-04-25 08:00:00
Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint
San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags ... barcoding and interrogators. We are really focused on the active RFID tagging area. Who are the typical [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 14:00:00
Painted on micro sensors
Tiny radios embedded in paint could be used to pick up sound, ... Systems, started exploring this technology based on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in 2002, and filed patents in 2005. ‘People complain that most of the cost in manufacturing RFID tags [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 08:10:11
RFID Wristbands
RFID Wristbands -125x125 Button - right- Idtronic is a worldwide supplier of RFID solutions such as ISO Cards, Keyfobs, Tags, RFID Readers, Mobile & Handheld Readers, UHF Long Range Readers, and Active Systems, as well as personalization for these products. It just announced three new products based on this technology, in the shape [more...]
Date: 2008-07-12 12:20:58
TIME’s Best Innovations Of 2008
TIME: From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world’s first moving skyscraper — TIME’s ... with RFID tags so they’re easily trackable. The Memristor Scientists have known it was possible for 37 ... its history even when turned off. One possible application: a computer that flicks on instantly [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 18:11:11
CYBRA Corporation’s EdgeMagic Replaces IBM RFID Software Solution at Shop-Vac
YONKERS, NY — (Marketwire) — 10/23/08 — CYBRA Corporation (OTCBB: CYRP), the developer of award-winning MarkMagic (TM) ... mobile readers, and Zebra RFID printers, the same hardware as WebSphere RFID Premises Server ... Bar Code Labels, RFID Tags, and Electronic Forms Software for IBM Power Systems (formerly known [more...]
Date: 2008-10-25 01:45:26
BTSUG: Jun 25th - BizTalk RFID - come and test the System to be used at Tech08
Hi folks, we’ve got a great night coming up on this Wednesday – Jun25th Wednesday This session we need to do *testing* of our developing RFID ... or any sort of warehouse tracking then this is a must see session for you. (RFID is much more than ... is needed – you’ll get Tags, walk through RFID Readers and get hands on with the gear. We’ll [more...]
Date: 2008-06-23 11:54:37
RFID Clothing Tags Simplify Laundry Procedure
Read More... | 2390 bytes more | Score: 0) 2 Port UHF RFID by GAO RFID Technology - Electronics - Hardware gaorfidinc writes: This modular unit provides easy implementations of RFID across the supply chain system including warehousing, distribution and on the manufacturing shop floor Posted [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 18:51:12
Tikitag arrives in India
1 Comment All the BEST for results. Don’t forget to update your result in comment section. Highest scorer (among UnwireIndia readers) ... announced last fall, is now available in India. The RFID-enabled systems offers a way to link offline objects to the digital world. (more…) Categories: Feature, RFID Tags: Alcatel-Lucent, Tikitag [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 06:31:44
Bicycle Blog Roundup, 11/11/08
Yes, by the way, starting with last week, I’ve dropped the “news media” part of the roundup, and just focused on blogs. Yay! Tech-Enabled Bike Sharing Rolls Into North America, The Huffington Post Now RFID (radio frequency identification) tags and Smart Card payment systems have created a third generation of bike share [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 20:24:41
Chip Implants To Avoid Identity Frauds? By Mary Wise
Chip Implants To Avoid Identity Frauds? By Mary Wise Posted by: admin In: ... . However it is said that its pay system, based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology ... of the owner’s interests? Not So New RFID tags are becoming popular, especially with those companies [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 04:55:12
Crown Equipment - Open 24 Hours With CribMaster
Crown Equipment - Open 24 Hours With CribMaster Being a manufacturer of lift trucks, RFID had certainly been on Crown's radar screen ... more and more... Integration Story: Tamper-Resistant RFID Infant-Tracking System... TEMA Finds Datamax H-Class Printers Ideal For Concrete Industry... RFID Tags Enable Mobile Authentication Platform Increase [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 21:35:24
Testing BizTalk RFID Processes
When developing applications, at some point in the dev cycle we want to know how the system will perform under load. In BizTalk RFID land it is no different. In fact, in BizTalk RFID implementations we often deal ... , what if we could raise tag read events programmatically and have our RFID Process consume them [more...]
Date: 2008-07-17 13:23:35
Radio-Frequency ID Technology Takes Off
Federal agencies have deployed radio frequency identification technology to manage their assets, ... and transmitted over a distance of about 300 feet. Passive RFID tags have a shorter range, about 30 feet ... fast a letter moves through the international postal system. RFID technology uses readers that beam [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 11:20:19
Air Force Base Deploys Wi-Fi/GPS RFID System Across 2,500 Acres
"The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) is adopting a system that combines Wi-Fi-based active RFID tags and GPS to help it track equipment and tools at its 110-million-square-foot compound at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 03:09:39
Barker’s gift … funds chip research?
The Daily Progress has an rather odd article juxtaposing our RFID research with a donation from Bob Barker (”Price is Right” host) ... when implanting RFID tags in animals. … “Animal law is a growing area that is in much discussion ... for RFID chips, which are commonly found in remote car-locking systems and touchless debit cards [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 16:06:14
Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management
Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management Domino ISG provides real-time traffic control that eliminates the delays, errors, and omissions of manual tracking. Asset tracking systems automatically monitors movements at... Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards MIKOH Smart&Secure: Retail RFID Tag Venture Research: RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 04:02:35
Radiator 09: Exploits in the Wireless City
I’m bound for Nottingham later this week for the Raditor Festival and Symposium, ... will be networked in a complex system of information exchange. Based on technologies such as RFID (radio frequency identification tags), our environment would turn into a space of “ambient intelligence” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 15:39:09
InfoLogix Launches HealthTrax 2.0 to Help Hospitals Automate Time-Consuming Asset and Patient Tracking
#fullpost{display:inline;} InfoLogix, Inc. , a leading technology provider of enterprise mobility and advanced wireless asset tracking solutions for ... network of small RFID transmitter tags, HealthTrax 2.0 pinpoints the location of specific assets ... draws upon sophisticated Real-Time Location System (RTLS) and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 01:58:00
Response to JAMA article on RFID
rf-logo-finalwtag.jpg The RFID study mentioned in JAMA does not apply to the RTLS technology deployed by RadarFind ... ), you need a very powerful reader to energize/read the tags. To compare this to the RadarFind system ... the likely scenario of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers causing anomalous behavior in electronic [more...]
Date: 2008-07-03 23:03:58
Mondi Corrugated Packaging: "intelligent box"
Après la boîte intelligente Hide-Pack d’emballage Krupack, Mondi, le plus important fournisseur d’emballage en carton ondulé, ... Packaging has developed a process to add RFID labels to corrugated boxes to enable effective scanning ... -intensive tag application process by using a high-speed manufacturing system to add RFID labels [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 03:25:00
Public Library to Install RFID Security System
Tagging of some 50,000 circulation items has begun, and installation is expected to be completed by the end of November. [more...]
Date: 2008-10-10 20:17:00
Increase Your Sales and Cut Costs by using Barcode Tracking
How do you compete more effectively in global markets? With increased efficiencies and cost savings… By Peter Green - BellHawk Systems Corporation ... money are: By saving them money on the receiving dock. They put a barcode or RFID label on each ... applying all the barcode labels and RFID tags that your customer needs for their internal tracking [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 12:49:46
FasTrak's RFID System in California COMPLETELY INSECURE
How insecure? According to research published at Hackaday.com, there's no security at all in the devices. With little difficulty, anyone with RFID experience could "wander through a parking lot with an RFID reader and pick up the ID of every tag in the lot." But that's j....... [more...]
Date: 2008-08-08 19:20:23
Links for 2008-08-13
Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Conditions : ... Classic RFID cards; really fantastic walkthrough of the process. I’m glad to see that my smartcard work on other systems a few years back would have defeated many of these attacks ;) (tags: mifare rfid [more...]
Date: 2008-08-13 22:05:03
December 20 SOA News
Five fearless predictions for SOA 2009ZDNet - USASOA seemed to become more and more pervasive across companies, ... to drive down those costs. ... SOA for the greatest logisitical night of allZDNet - USA Dave suggests RFID-tagging all goods, with information flowing real-time across an SOA-enabled system. SOA can also [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 14:21:00
40% Productivity Gain for GEL-AL of Turkey
June 3, 2008, Morgan Hill, California – Alien Technology, a leader in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) ... totes travel throughout the various production stations. STS, a leading RFID systems integrator in Turkey, equipped each tote with an Alien® high-performance UHF/EPC compliant M-tag (inlay), which [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 19:48:08
Take action on NAIS--more important than you know
What's NAIS? It's the National Animal Identification System. It would require that every small farmer tag his or her animals with a microchip or RFID (radio ... is that the time and money required for a small farmer to tag every last farm animal can be prohibitive [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 21:29:16
First Data’s GO-Tags — the first step toward mobile commerce?
The mobile industry has been WOEFULLY inept at dealing with mobile commerce. Appalling. There’s a heck of a lot of hesitation going on ... . THAT would be excellent. First Data have published a white paper about this — Contactless ... card (the RFID card system used for the London Underground train service). Swipe at a reader [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 14:32:49
UK Considers RFID Chip Implants to monitor prisoners
"UK ministers are planning to implant "machine-readable" ... tagging scheme that would create more space in British jails. Amid concerns about the security of existing tagging systems and prison overcrowding, the Ministry of Justice is investigating the use [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 08:31:00
Study: RFID Tags May Scramble Hospital Equipment
A new study is raising questions over how radio frequency identification chips could be interacting with hospital equipment ... . They also power many cities' transit payment systems and are used for animal identification and store theft [more...]
Date: 2008-06-25 18:49:31
Apple patent would lock Nike+iPod, add GPS
Apple is investigating putting more stringent controls on the Nike+iPod system used for the iPod nano and now the iPod touch, ... but use it with non-Nike shoes or in different locations, the patent describes using RFID tags and similar sensors built into shoes or other clothing to pair the transmitter ... [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 07:56:38
Heise Security: Microsoft - Customers play "Russian roulette" with their systems
# Info World: Researchers hack into Intel's vPro Posted: 07 Jan 2009 08:58:38 # Threat Level: Weak Password Brings 'Happiness' to Twitter Hacker "An 18-year-old hacker with a history of celebrity pranks has admitted to Monday's hijacking of multiple high-profile Twitter accounts" Posted: 07 Jan 2009 08:58:21 # IAIK TU Graz: RFID Tag Emulators [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 19:41:31
