RFID Journal: When a cartridge is installed in the Freestyle dispenser, the individual servicing that dispenser holds it up to the machine, and an RFID interrogator captures the unique ID number and other data encoded to the cartridge tag. If the machine's onboard computer confirms that the cartridge's ID number is valid, it releases the door lock and illuminates an LED light at the location at which the cartridge should be installed. The employee then opens the door and removes the empty cartridge from the slot where the LED light is shining, replacing it with a new one. An RFID interrogator inside the machine captures the tag's unique ID as the new cartridge is installed; if that cartridge is being placed in the wrong slot, the machine will fail to operate.

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http://www.pcb007.com/: This year marks the 800th anniversary of Cambridge University and the birth of a new conference from IDTechEx. Based upon the need for energy harvesting for use as ambient energy to power small electronic or electrical devices, interest in this sphere is burgeoning, as the presence of some 140 delegates bore witness. Held at the new Gillespie Centre at Clare College, the four-day event, June 2-5, 2009, showed that the timing was right. The first and last days were devoted to master-classes and local company visits, with the middle two focused on the conference itself.

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PR.com: An external RFID Reader Antenna can give a better signal range to RFID reader that reads tags relatively far away. DAILY RFID has recently unveiled customized RFID Reader Antenna DL810 in different sizes and different shapes to cater for the above demands.

The RFID Reader Antenna DL810 is suitable for asset management applications in offices or commercial enterprises where streamlining is needed. In combination with a HF Reader DL810, the 13.56MHz RFID reader Antenna gives the reader long read range up to 90cm(3 feet) for HF RFID tags, and can read over 50 tags per second. The RFID Reader Antenna DL810 can offer up to 3W output power in its class for HF applications due to the SMA interface, thus offering long read range, while enabling system-level power reductions.

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ZD Net Asia: RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) uses contactless tags to identify objects and is commonly used in the logistics and retail industries. You can also find RFID technology in your company's staff ID cards and train fare cards. Now that RFID technology is becoming affordable, you can buy RFID tags and readers to help you track things around the office, like folders, books and even laptops.

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Rfid Update: Researchers working with the Finnish Defence Forces tested an RFID-based patient identification system that utilized mobile phones and near field communication (NFC) to track casualties by their triage classification during a mock military exercise. The test occurred during the Finnish military's Pyry 2006 exercise. Results were published last year in the International Journal of Electronic Healthcare. Triage is a method of sorting and classifying large numbers of casualties. Typically, medical personnel use color-coded cards to tag each patient as immediate, delayed, minimal or expectant (dead or dying) using classifications developed by NATO. Efficiently tagging each patient and then communicating information about the number of casualties in each classification to receiving medical facilities can be a time-consuming and complex process.

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RFID Solutions: CenTrak, a leading provider of Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) for tracking equipment and people indoors, recently announced that it has installed over 6 million square feet of its market-leading hybrid certainty-based Gen2IR and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system in hospitals and healthcare sites this year. The company has installed 16 facilities with enterprise-wide systems for both asset and people tracking in this year alone.

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RFID Solutions: CenTrak, a leading provider of Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) for tracking equipment and people indoors, recently announced that it has installed over 6 million square feet of its market-leading hybrid certainty-based Gen2IR and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system in hospitals and healthcare sites this year. The company has installed 16 facilities with enterprise-wide systems for both asset and people tracking in this year alone.

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PR Urgent.com: MORRISVILLE, N.C. (June 2, 2009) – RadarFind Corporation, a healthcare technology company offering a patented enterprise-wide Real Time Location System (RTLS) for tracking medical equipment and patients, is introducing a new location tracking capability for cardiac telemetry devices – the first of its kind in the RTLS industry.

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the business mirror: THE Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system, originally used by manufacturers to track inventories, is now in wide use for other applications, including the tracking and retrieval of medical records. But soon, if the chief of Metro Manila’s police force were to be followed, it could also be an innovative way to ensure the safety and security of students while inside the school premises.

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Sanjay Chatterjee, Mind Commerce: This unique report addresses core technology and business aspects of real-time location services (RTLS) and guides the reader through the most important aspects of enabling technologies including RFID. It covers the critical factors and gives the user the views about the different kinds of RFIDs. The report also addresses the advantages and the bottlenecks for deployment of RTLS applications, evaluating available solutions and the methodologies. The report includes an exhaustive study of leading RTLS companies. Different types of RTLS are evaluated and the standards and protocols related to them. The report has a great focus on the applications and the key areas that can be addressed by RTLS giving special attention to Vehicle Tracking, Port/Yard Management, Inventory Management and Real Time Tracking solutions. The report also provides an analysis of the most widely used RTLS applications today and provides a vision for anticipated future applications.

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