RAIN Alliance Launches Working Group for RAIN RFID Sensors
The RAIN Alliance has launched a working group for sensor-enabled RAIN RFID, chaired by Sara Amendola of Radio6ense, covering temperature, humidity, moisture, pressure, strain and freshness sensing. Battery-free tags put…
Interview: Stefan Genser on NFC and the Future of Healthcare
The NFC Forum has launched a dedicated Healthcare Special Interest Group. In the first RFID News interview, its chair Stefan Genser talks tap-to-access care, the US$30.5 billion counterfeit medicine problem,…
RFID and Blockchain: Hype vs Reality for Supply Chain Transparency
The pairing of RFID and blockchain has attracted serious attention over the past few years. Vendors promise end-to-end supply chain visibility, tamper-proof records, and instant traceability from factory floor to…
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…
Bluesight and Pfizer to Provide Source-Tagged RFID Medications to Hospital Pharmacies
Bluesight has announced a strategic partnership with Pfizer Global Hospital & Biosimilars that will bring source-tagged RFID medications to hospital pharmacies across the United States. The collaboration integrates Pfizer’s SmartDose…
NFC Forum Launches Healthcare Special Interest Group
The NFC Forum has announced the launch of a new Healthcare Special Interest Group (SIG), a move designed to push Near Field Communication technology further into the medical and pharmaceutical…
Process-Reliable RFID Labeling for Vials from Schreiner MediPharm and HERMA at interpack
Schreiner MediPharm and HERMA have joined forces to tackle one of the pharmaceutical industry’s trickiest packaging challenges: applying RFID labels to small-radius vials without damaging the embedded chips. The two…
Pharmaceutical Logistics Provider, VTS Elevates Logistics with Zebra RFID
VTS Transport & Logistics, a major pharmaceutical logistics provider headquartered in the Netherlands, has rolled out Zebra Technologies’ connected frontline solution across its European operations. The deployment aims to modernize…
Sanofi transforms R&D inventory management using UHF RFID
Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi has rolled out passive UHF RFID technology across its R&D facilities in France and the United States, delivering a dramatic improvement in inventory accuracy and slashing the…
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