PSFK: In an effort to help dairy farmers better manage their herds, Danish technology firm, SmartFarming has developed an animal tracking and monitoring system called CowDetect. The system enables farmers to maintain a more meaningful account of individual animals by analyzing movement and eating patterns in real time. This data can be used to determine health, allowing farmers to treat or remove sick cows before they affect the wellness of the entire herd, as well as plan milking and fertilization schedules that can help maximize productivity.
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Packaging Digest: RFID labeler speeds up the tagging process at Centraal Boekhuis and helps the Dutch company expand its logistics offerings for booksellers.
As a result of installing two automated RFID labeler/applicators, international book logistics provider Centraal Boekhuis now has the capability to tag more than 10 million books/year. Centraal Boekhuis, Culemborg, The Netherlands, provides logistics services for approximately 1,500 booksellers and 500 publishers. It transports approximately 4.5 million packages annually. The company offers 80,000 Dutch language books and 10 times as many books in other languages.
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Sramana Mitra: Whether it’s a box of dressings or a piece of equipment costing thousands of dollars, hospitals and other medical facilities can sacrifice their quality of care and lose money when they don’t have a solid grip on their supply chain. To help ensure this doesn’t happen, Awarepoint has developed a real-time location solution (RTLS) system to track assets and handle management challenges faced by healthcare institutions. Its ‘Real-Time Awareness Solutions’ give healthcare clients such as hospitals, teaching institutions, independents and military facilities, business intelligence to improve quality of care, patient safety and clinical and financial outcomes. The RTLS, which are implemented with Active RFID tags, continually monitor the position and activity of resources, analogous to an indoor GPS.
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E Media Wire: Cleveland, Ohio, USA (PRWEB) June 22, 2009 -- The next wave of innovation in the RFID market - Battery-Powered Passive RFID - is set to power new and emerging applications in manufacturing, supply chain, health care, asset management, security and retail, according to thought leaders from Blue Spark Technologies, Inc., the leading designer of thin, flexible, green printed batteries.
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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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24 X 7 mag: St Croix Systems and AeroScout Inc announce a partnership to offer integrated asset management and real-time location system (RTLS) solutions to improve mobile devices and equipment management for health care.
The solution provides users with the precise up to the minute location of each tagged asset, by launching AeroScout MobileView application from an asset record in St Croix’s Asset Enterprise 5.0 (AE5). The asset’s location is then displayed on a Web-based map along with associated information such as status, availability, and recall data.
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