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NCAA Plans RFID Baggage Tracking Across All Nigerian Airports

NCAA Plans RFID Baggage Tracking Across All Nigerian Airports

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has set out plans to introduce RFID baggage tracking at Nigerian airports, replacing barcode bag tags with radio frequency tags read automatically as luggage…

Bluebird launches world’s first enterprise-grade RFID Enabled handheld computer with AMOLED display

Bluebird launches world’s first enterprise-grade RFID Enabled handheld computer with AMOLED display

Bluebird, the enterprise mobility business of TSC Auto ID, has launched the X40, a rugged RFID handheld computer that the company says is the first enterprise-grade device to ship with…

DecisionPoint acquires AB&R out of Brady

DecisionPoint acquires AB&R out of Brady

DecisionPoint Technologies has acquired American Barcode and RFID (AB&R), the Phoenix, Arizona integrator that has been designing and deploying barcode, RAIN RFID and industrial IoT systems for supply chain operators…

Case Study: Ferrari Sports Management’s hybrid power unit RFID bearing temperature sensing

Case Study: Ferrari Sports Management’s hybrid power unit RFID bearing temperature sensing

A battery-free RAIN RFID temperature sensor has been used to measure bearing temperature inside a sealed, rotating Formula 1 electric motor, a measurement point that conventional wired and optical instrumentation…

Spanish industrial laundry Limpink, uses customised RFID tag-on-label

Spanish industrial laundry Limpink, uses customised RFID tag-on-label

Limpink, an industrial laundry based in Murcia, Spain, has adopted a customised RFID tag-on-label solution supplied by Datamars Textile ID, placing item-level identification inside the same label that carries the…

RFID for Airport Duty Free: Up to 99% Stock Accuracy

RFID for Airport Duty Free: Up to 99% Stock Accuracy

Item-level RFID can lift airport duty free stock accuracy to as much as 99 per cent, according to Checkpoint Systems, which puts typical barcode-based counting at 70 to 80 per…

Hansol Logistics expands logistics with RFID tracking

Hansol Logistics expands logistics with RFID tracking

Hansol Logistics has started full-scale operations of a battery cell specialised logistics business in the United States, and it is leaning on RFID and GPS tracking to keep sight of…

Medvantx Opens Louisville Pharmacy Fulfilment Facility Built on Automated Conveyance and RFID-Enabled Routing

Medvantx Opens Louisville Pharmacy Fulfilment Facility Built on Automated Conveyance and RFID-Enabled Routing

Medvantx has opened a new pharmacy fulfilment facility in Louisville, Kentucky, and the detail that will interest anyone working in RFID is buried in the automation spec: the site runs…

South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue: iTrackPPE RFID PPE Asset Management Contract Confirmed

South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue: iTrackPPE RFID PPE Asset Management Contract Confirmed

South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service has awarded a £497,660 contract, excluding VAT, to iTrackPPE Ltd for RFID and QR code based asset tracking software covering every item of personal…

Case Study – Marriott International 150,000-tag RAIN RFID linen deployment

Case Study – Marriott International 150,000-tag RAIN RFID linen deployment

Counting linen is one of those hotel jobs nobody enjoys and everybody has to do. At three Marriott International luxury properties in China, it now takes roughly ten minutes instead…

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