McMaster RFID applications, Bombardier Transportation and Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) have begun a $1.4 million research collaboration to develop locating technology to notify subway vehicle operators of the exact location of track inspectors and other trackside workers. The project is expected to take three years to complete and the research group intends to commercialize [...]
Newport Digital Technologies (NPDT) completed AT&T’s network certification for its rugged handheld N37B computing device, which will be channeled through to AT&T’s Special Vertical Markets (SVM) with Ingram Micro as the logistics and distribution partner. Recall, NPDT is working with Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry (III) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to commercialize [...]
Zebra Enterprise Solutions announced that Xterprise has joined its Partner Program. Xterprise has been a partner of Zebra’s Specialty Printing Group since 2004, and has served customers in retail, automotive, manufacturing, financial services, government, aerospace and defense. By including real-time solutions, Xterprise intends to provide asset- and people- tracking solutions and expand to the oil [...]
Ubisense has entered a VAR agreement with Donn Technology to serve customers in China. The partnership will focus on marketing Ubisense ultra-wideband (UWB) for real-time tracking of assets, mobile workforces, and large-scale industrial applications where Wi-Fi or RFID are not viable, such as material management. The Ubisense UWB system was recently implemented at POSCO, a [...]
Checkpoint announced it is partnering with METRO Group in Europe to develop an RFID based EAS solution. The solution will be based on the GS1 EPCglobal Strategic Overview and Implementation guide that we highlighted in our Government/Policy/Standards section. Checkpoint has been working with Metro for several years on a variety of RFID solutions.
FEIG has expanded [...]
XIO Strategies and RFID Revolution have announced a partnership to promote RFID training courses to the government sector. RFID Revolution is the provider of the RFID Essentials internet training simulation course, and XIO Strategies will focus on delivering the training package to clients in the federal government.
Psion Teklogix and RACO Wireless have partnered to integrate [...]
RFID Global Solutions (RFIDGS) has joined the Zebra Enterprise Solutions (ZES) partner program, giving RFIDGS access to resell a range of active RFID products offered by ZES. While RFIDGS had previously sold Zebra RFID printers and ZES Ultra Wide Band solutions, the partnership now allows RFIDGS to resell WhereNet RTLS products along with ZES’s GPS-based [...]
Fluensee and BMC Software expanded their partnership, as Fluensee’s AssetTrack will now be sold through BMC’s MarketZone program. AssetTrack leverages RFID to automate the locating, monitoring and tracking of an organizations IT assets. BMC’s MarketZone program facilitates the development, marketing and distribution of third-party products complimenting BMC solutions.
UPM Raflatac and Digilogics announced a partnership to [...]
Savi and Numerex partnered to develop a tag that offers active RFID, GPS and satellite communications to enable real-time shipment/asset monitoring for defense, public sector and commercial customers. The product will be called the ST-694 Global Tag and will be ISO 18000-7 compliant, and is targeted to meet with Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance [...]
AeroScout announced In Motion Technology will provide to its customers a solution that leverages AeroScout’s active technology to create a field deployable asset tracking solution. In Motion provides secure in vehicle wireless solutions. With this partnership, a solution would feature a vehicle with a reader connected to In Motions wireless solution allowing the tracking of [...]