DNA samples are becoming an increasingly important method for federal and state law enforcement agencies to help solve crimes and secure convictions. The evidence can also serve to clear those wrongly convicted. However, both Wisconsin and Illinois have recently found serious gaps in electronic DNA records, where the actual number of records is meaningfully less [...]

We are seeing macro data becoming more positive and wanted to provide some perspective on how that might be translating into the RFID space. In the August edition, we highlighted seeing improving trends in Asia, and we now see signs of improvement more globally. The first quarter appeared fairly weak for all players, but there [...]

The September 2009 edition of RFID Monthly is now available. The newsletter and historical versions are always available on the right-hand column of the website under “Historical Newsletter Editions.”
In the September edition of the newsletter, we cover several new industry developments, including the following:
Why Consumers Should Care About RFID. We provide our view that consumers likely [...]

Georgia will leverage RFID to create a toll lane to ease congestion on a component of express lanes along a 15 mile stretch on I-85 using five tolls Northbound and four tolls Southbound. Today, the high occupancy vehicle lanes (HOV) have become congested and the State Road and Tollway Authority (SRTA) believes that developing a [...]

The Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) at the University of Arkansas published a second live test study showing RFID’s ability to improve inventory accuracy at the item level. This study was conducted at Bloomingdales and featured roughly a 5x-7x increase in items tested versus the first study conducted at Dillard’s. At Bloomingdales, the study focused [...]

RFID Enables More Productive Farming
d’Vineripe, an Australian Tomato grower, is leveraging RFID to analyze workflow and worker productivity. The company produces about 4,600 tons of tomatoes each year, and at any one time has 260,000 plants growing in its 8 hectare green house. Each day, about 150 workers perform eight different tasks, such as pruning, [...]

Omni-ID introduced three new products targeted towards manufacturing, transportation and defense. The new products offer a new technology that features a new antenna design and a plasmonic structure that provides not only ruggedization, but also enhances read capability, both in terms of read range and frequency range, which can enable reads across all geographic regions. [...]

Linen Technology Tracking announced the launch of linentracker, a system for tracking and monitoring linen supplies throughout a hotel. The system’s technology uses passive Gen 2 UHF RFID tags that withstand commercial washing, drying and pressing. Real time display of item location and history are enabled via customized software and can be accessed through a [...]

Impinj announced that Sumikin Bussan, a $13B Japanese trading company, will offer Speedway readers and antennas in Japan. Sumikin, which has businesses in steel, machinery, textiles and food, has been active in the RFID space. As we indicated in the August edition of RFID Monthly, we are hearing of increased industrial traction in Japan for [...]

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 [...]