The tags currently cost around 50 cents apiece, and will need to come way down in price before their use becomes practical on individual products, analysts say. The software maker said on Tuesday that it will work with Auto ID, a joint venture of...
The Auto-ID Centre, the radio frequency identification (RFID) research group that MIT and its industry partners formed in 1999, is disbanding its current form at the end of the month, MIT said. The university will continue to do RFID research...
Now though it would seem US criminals have more to fear from 'chips' than 'CHiPs', with plans afoot to tag them all with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips. Normally any RFID chip scheme which is written about on the pages of silicon.com...
Among the benefits of the next generation tag, according to Wal-Mart, is the cost - Gen2 tags will break the all-important 10 cents per tag barrier. Uber-retailer Wal-Mart - which mandated its suppliers to start using RFID from the start of this...
Typically, an RFID tag costs up to 40 cents. Analysts believe that price will have to fall to around 5 cents before RFID will really become a tech must-have. The RFID tag as we know it is changing, thanks to the intervention of two chip-makers.
3M has won a $3.7m, three-year contract with the US Army to RFID tag medical documents. The US Tax Court and the Tax Division of the Department of Justice have already signed up to use RFID to manage their documents, while numerous libraries in...