SmartBrief: CTIA SmartBrief | 06/15/2009 Alcatel-Lucent is marketing a venture to wireless carriers based on radio frequency identification -- RFID -- that turns cell phones into conduits for delivering an array of Internet-based applications and services. The equipment maker, which is dubbing its venture "Touchatag," cited such examples as enabling a user to link business cards to a company's Web site by scanning the cards and giving them an RFID tag. Telephony Online (06/12)

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SmartBrief: AGC SmartBrief | 06/15/2009 Radio frequency identification, or RFID, is already helping the construction industry track materials, explosives and hazardous materials, among other things. Now a new consortium aims to build support for RFID in the industry so it can be used to measure supplier reliability and simplify inspections. RFID in Construction Consortium, a nonprofit group, offers workshops to construction firms and plans to publish an RFID guide by the end of this year. RFID Journal (06/11)

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Pharmaceutical Processing: By Grant Woolf, Solution Architect Director, TAKE Supply Chain Outsourcing continues to remain a dominant force throughout the pharmaceutical industry, as more companies than ever move to the "virtual world" of contract manufacturing. By incorporating outsourcing — a cost-effective, flexible approach to resource allocation and investment — into a company's overall business strategy, pharmaceutical companies gain new opportunities to sustain long-term growth and competitive advantage. But the increasing globalization of the contract manufacturing market can lead to a rush to expand practices in low-cost countries, straining brand owners' ability to manage and control their manufacturing, packaging and supply chain operations.

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Pilot Online.com: Soon after Air France Flight 447 went down the night of May 31, Brazilian and French teams began combing vast sections of the Atlantic Ocean for signs of wreckage and survivors. Behind this high-profile recovery effort, a group of local Coast Guard members has been doing its part with the help of a new simulation program that can look back in time.

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virginiabeach.injuryboard.com blog: A company has invented a simple method of placing a bar code on each surgical sponge, and provides a barcode reader wand. The company SurgiCount has its products in a number of hospitals, and reports terrific success in reducing the number of lost surgical sponges that can cause an infection in the patient, which exposes the hospital or surgeon to medical malpractice liability.

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RTLS For Dummies Book Review at amazon.com: RTLS for Dummies is the most comprehensive book written for anyone who is involved in the Location system business. It also provides an excellent study for anyone entering this business or educational institutions who could use it as a textbook or a reference for all RTLS related seminars.

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PRNewswire: Ekahau Inc., a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS), today announced that UK HealthCare is deploying Ekahau RTLS to track mobile medical equipment at the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital in Lexington, KY. Chandler Hospital is the first member of the University HealthSystems Consortium (UHC) to deploy the Ekahau RTLS solution under a preferred-provider agreement announced earlier this year.

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PR-Inside: Awarepoint Corporation (www.awarepoint.com) today announced deployment of its Real-time Location System (RTLS) at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center (http://cancer.ucsd.edu). This deployment adds a third UCSD Medical Center hospital to Awarepoint's RTLS (http://www.awarepoint.com/rtls.shtml) coverage, which currently includes the system's Thornton and Hillcrest campuses. The Awarepoint enterprise RTLS installation has now been expanded to include nearly 1.5 million square feet with more than 2,000 assets under management, covering three hospitals across nearly 14 miles.

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PR News Wire: WASHINGTON, June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) company, today unveiled a wireless Real Time Locating System (RTLS) to automatically locate assets in facilities or industrial yards that's far less expensive and easier to implement than conventional RTLS systems. The announcement was made here at the National Press Club along with availability of two other Savi innovations - a hybrid RFID/SatCom GlobalTag and upgraded SmartChain 6.0 Adaptive Application suite - on the company's 20th year in business.

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PRNewswire: The system tracks all vehicles in the fleet in real time as well as measuring, collating and analyzing asset and fleet usage, making it possible to zero in on problems such as excessive idle times, underused vehicles and non-compliant driver behavior that can drive up costs. Advanced features include wide area mapping down to the street level, the ability to identify individual drivers, polygonal geofence functionality for defining driver territories, robust two-way messaging options, and a full reporting suite providing actionable information for fleet optimization.

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