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The Boeing Company at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is expanding its use of RFID in a Phase II project by tagging 3,000 total tools, instruments and other valuable assets at its Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) warehouses, which is where space station modules are assembled. The solution enables Boeing, NASA’s lead contractor, to better monitor [...]

The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) is using combination GPS Wi-Fi tags to locate essential equipment in its 2,600 acre maintenance/storage facility at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tuscan, Arizona. The 309th AMARG houses thousands of aircraft and aircraft parts, and has a mission of fulfilling aircraft replacement or maintenance orders for [...]

European builder-supply store Rautakesko implemented a RTLS tracking system to gain a better understanding of do-it-yourself customer shopping patterns. Individual customers are tracked to identify time and location spent in the store by providing them with an active tag upon entering the store. Tags are either placed in the customers’ pocket, or are attached to [...]

The West Palm Beach Library will implement a new RFID system when it moves into a new facility in spring of 2009. The new space will be twice as large as the existing facility and will offer expanded services. In addition, circulation is expected to double to 1.2M units per year. Despite the extra size [...]

Normerica, a provider of cat litter and pet products, has implemented an RFID Gen 2 compliance solution for shipment into Wal-Mart Canada. For products to be sent to Wal-Mart, Normerica uses RFID boxes with a blank embedded RFID inlay purchased from Krupack (Krupack uses the HIDE-Pack process of embedding labels into box folds; Kruger is [...]

NP Collection, a Finnish apparel company, expanded its use of RFID to include in store applications. In its Hollola, Finland store, NP has developed a smart dressing room that offers customers additional product information, and enables customers to have additional sizes brought to the changing area. NP has also created an RFID-based point of sale [...]

Air New Zealand will implement an RFID check-in system for its regular customers. As part of a broader plan to eliminate check-in counters and speed up customer traffic, the company is spending $30M to upgrade 26 New Zealand based airports. The new ePass system will provide roughly 100,000 key customers with an HF based RFID [...]

Jade Jewellery, with four stores located in Saudi Arabia has implemented a Gen 2 based RFID tracking system to reduce theft and improve inventory management practices. The installation followed a six month trial. The store found discrepancies in its jewelry inventory between its physical inventory counts, suggesting theft. Because inventory counts lasted 2-3 working days [...]

The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) has implemented a Gen 2 based RFID solution to meet government track and trace standards for criminal evidence. The process involves placing such evidence in sealed envelopes at the crime scene, and then tagging these items at the crime scene or upon arrival at NFI. Items are received, undergo forensic [...]