Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust tracks 846 beds and 1,309 medical devices with active RFID
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust tags 1,309 medical devices, 846 of them beds, across its two acute hospitals and regularly locates 95% of them. Battery-powered active RFID tags report…
Building an Internal RFID Centre of Excellence
Fragmented knowledge is what undermines mature RFID programmes: one team knows antennas, another knows middleware, and nobody sees the whole picture. A lean centre of excellence of three to six…
RFID Contracts: Key Clauses You Should Negotiate
When you sign a contract with an RFID vendor, the details buried in the small print matter more than the headline price. Most buyers focus on cost per tag or…
Researchers use RFID technology to open up new possibilities for measuring respiratory function
Researchers affiliated with Chalmers University of Technology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, and the University of Gothenburg have developed a new contactless method for measuring breathing movements using RFID technology. The approach…
Masters Golf uses RFID tickets to crack down on ticket fraud
Augusta National Golf Club has taken its war on ticket scalping to a new level, deploying RFID technology to track Masters badges and effectively dismantling the secondary ticket market that…
Ethio telecom and ETRE launch an RFID-powered toll payment system
Ethio telecom and the Ethiopian Toll Roads Enterprise (ETRE) have jointly launched an RFID-powered toll payment system on the Addis Ababa-Adama expressway, marking a significant step forward in Ethiopia’s push…
CONTROLTEK Appoint Timothy Beckett to drive EAS and RFID solutions throughout Canada
CONTROLTEK Strengthens Canadian Presence with Appointment of Timothy Beckett as Key Account Manager CONTROLTEK, a leading provider of Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) and RFID-based retail loss prevention solutions, has announced…
Sensormatic Solutions’ RFID delivers gains in Supply Chain Visibility and eliminates shipping errors at Brooks Running distribution centre.
Brooks Running Achieves 100% Shipping Accuracy with Sensormatic RFID Brooks Running, the Seattle-based athletic footwear brand, has eliminated shipping errors at its primary U.S. distribution centre after deploying an RFID-powered…
What is RFID and How Does It Work? A Technical Deep Dive
Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, is one of those technologies that most people interact with daily without giving it a second thought. Tapping a contactless bank card, scanning an access…
Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo Reduces Linen Inventory Needs by 25% Using RFID
Managing hospital linen might not sound glamorous, but for a 600-bed facility like Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo, it is a serious operational challenge. The hospital was losing roughly…
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