RFID technology uses microchips to wirelessly transmit product serial numbers to a scanner without the need for human intervention and is seen as an eventual successor to bar-code inventory tracking systems, promising to cut distribution costs for...
Safeway ran an RFID pilot with Unilever last year on 40,000 cases of Lynx deodorant tracking them from the factory through to the shelves of three stores and, in an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Safeway CIO Ric Francis said that while the...
The following year will see 32 more facilities receiving an expanded range of chipped goods, including ammunition and drugs. After a draft agreed earlier this year and a pilot underway with IBM; the DoD has decided RFID is a winner.
The pilot has been going for one year and started off with a logical progression, Wolfram said. Does that mean the pilot was flawless? There's also a cost factor," he added - the cost of the tags and readers, as well as the engineering and cabling...
The University of California at Berkeley is warning more than 98,000 people that the theft of a laptop from its graduate school admissions office has exposed their personal information. UC Berkeley said that it has already made an effort to notify...
Among the new details is news that the company has equipped all bottles of Viagra with RFID tags, along with cases and pallets used for shipment. Tagsys, a French company, is supplying RFID tags for bottles, while US-based Alien Technology is...
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