Throughout the past five or six years, RFID solution providers have tremendously improved their tags, readers and software. We used to hear about problems reading tags, but that is almost never an ...

At every turn, networks must handle additional traffic from new sources. One of the latest and soon-to-rise sources of increased network traffic arises from the implementation of radio frequency ...

Part 1 of this special report on the use of RFID in the healthcare industry explained the Micro-Modular approach to using RFID in healthcare. In Part 2, the authors detail the processes involved in ...

Any new technology introduces both costs and benefits, and RFID is no exception. Let's begin with the challenges it presents: Cost–The most-discussed cost element for RFID systems is the cost of ...

Frying pans, pill bottles, canes, coffee cups, and countless other nonelectronic objects could be turned into a network of Internet of Things sensors with a new RFID-based technology from the ...

The main differences between Bluetooth LE, RFID, and NFC, and how all three of these technologies are now improving product security in healthcare and safeguarding patient information, among other ...

Unlike fashion, the technology industry doesn’t often look to trends and ideas from the past to define its future. But in the case of RFID, that’s exactly the phenomenon we’ve been observing over the ...

Modern conveniences such as self-checkout and contactless payments are often taken for granted. Because of this, it’s natural to overlook the critical technology that makes such everyday efficiencies ...

Mark Twain once advised his readers “never to pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” You decide what happens when two barrels of electronic ink are involved. A few weeks ago this ...

Walmart (NYSE:WMT) and Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) announced a strategic collaboration on Wednesday to implement a new radio-frequency identification technology in Walmart's (NYSE:WMT) fresh food ...

The progress of RFID adoption divides naturally into eras: the Proprietary era, the Compliance era, the RFID-Enabled Enterprise era , the RFID-Enabled Industries era, and the Internet of Things era.