One physical limitation that RFID technology has faced as it has been adopted in most vertical markets is chip size. Although chips have become smaller (they can now be inserted into a tag the size of ...

Enables fast deployment of a wide range of datalogging and tracking systems Claimed by the company to be priced up to 10 times lower than existing RFID temperature-sensing modules, the IDS-SL13A smart ...

Seattle-based RFID hardware provider Impinj has announced an EPC Gen 2 passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) tag chip developed for embedded applications, such as programming consumer electronics or ...

McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, which handles more than 68,000 pieces of luggage daily, is committed to buying 100 million RFID tags over the next five years, according to Samuel Ingalls, ...

NXP Semiconductors announced the new UCODE X, delivering read and write sensitivity, flexible configurations, and the ...

Samsung Electronics has developed an RFID (radio frequency identification) chip it hopes will turn mobile phones into more useful tools to tell people about the products and services they want.

Chipmaker Texas Instruments on Monday announced a wireless identity chip for clothing which can survive the dry cleaning process, creating a new market for a technology that is expected to ...

IER, supplier of rfid and contactless labels and devices to transit and other industries, will license the ultra-small Jewel chip from Innovision Research. The smallest ITSO-approved chip for ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have made what is believed to be the smallest state-of-the-art RFID chip, which should drive down the cost of RFID tags. In addition, the chip's design ...

Truancy just got harder for recalcitrant students in Japan with the trial of chips that track students' whereabouts. Electronic giant Fujitsu collaborated with a suburban Tokyo private school Rikkyo ...

Future Stock RFID tags -- tiny chips attached to antennae that store remotely readable data -- are hardly a new invention. But, until recently, businesses and government agencies were hard-pressed to ...

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