Our recent bar code and RFID reseller survey suggests a mixed picture with respect to automated data capture technologies. Project pipelines are actually increasing, but conversion into revenue remains challenging. Instead most end users are currently relying on software enhancements and services to drive incremental value, not new equipment. We see increased uses of RFID, [...]

While the amount of state related RFID privacy legislation is a bit less this year than in the past, New York, New Hampshire, Nevada Washington State, Wisconsin and Massachusetts have all introduced RFID based legislation in early 2009. We have asked in the past and continue to ask, why single out RFID? We certainly understand the [...]

We are seeing an increase in the number of RFID players looking for venture funding, and while we still think the market for that type of funding is very selective, we expect some funding will occur in the near-term. In our view, businesses that will be favored include service and software models having a strong [...]

The March 2009 edition of the RFID Monthly newsletter is now available. The newsletter and historical versions are always available on the right-hand column of the website under “Historical Newsletter Editions.”
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ThermoKing, a producer of temperature control systems for transportation infrastructure, including trucks bodies, ship and air containers, and rail cars has implemented a wireless  parts replenishment system. The system leverages active tags placed next to parts containers for parts reordering. Each tag has a push button call feature that signals the materials management systems that [...]

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced it has completed its RFID implementations at the San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, Calexico and Tecate border crossings, and expects Andrade will be completed by May. These represent the first of 354 vehicle lanes between the U.S. and Mexico and the U.S. and Canada that will undergo RFID implementation…The Canadian [...]

LIPOR, a waste management group located in Greater Oporto, Portugal is using RFID to manage its waste truck unloading and billing processes. LIPOR has provided each one of its 400 trucks with a Gen 2 based windshield tag that provides several points of automation in the waste disposal process. First, each windshield tag is read [...]

Eren Holdings, a Turkish manufacturer and distributer of high-end garments, installed RFID to reduce labor costs associated with inventory receipt and cycle counting. The efficiencies have also allowed Eren to increase physical counts, which reduce potential out of stocks. Eren tags each garment prior to packing and shipment. At distribution center or store receipt, individual [...]

Walgreens will upgrade its display tracking and execution to including Gen 2 capability. The existing system, which leverages GOLIATH’s technology, has been deployed nationwide by Walgreens and allows Walgreens to better align vendor promotional advertising with in-store displays. This includes real-time information on the location of displays by store as well as consumer behavior and [...]

New privacy related legislation has been introduced in the State of Nevada Senate (SB-125), which unlike other state legislation focuses more on the criminal act than on regulating the technology or associated business processes. Such legislation is much closer to the philosophy we have articulated. The Nevada legislation seeks to make it a “category C” [...]