RFID for Asset Tracking: Beyond Inventory to Equipment Management
Large organisations tagging their assets for the first time routinely discover the register is wrong: written-off equipment still in use, phantom entries, duplicates across cost centres. Mature RFID asset management…
RFID in Healthcare: Patient Safety, Asset Tracking, and Beyond
Closed-loop medication systems built on RFID wristbands have cut drug administration errors by more than 50 per cent in published studies. From tagged surgical sponges that prevent retained instruments to…
Hospital Albert Einstein saves R$1.5m a year on linen with RFID
Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo has saved R$1.5 million a year on linen control alone, with 120,000 textile pieces individually tagged and 500 rooms inventoried by RFID reading…
Incora slashes inventory search time by >95% with Zebra and Xemelgo RFID
Incora has cut the time its staff spend locating missing stock by more than 95% at its Jonestown distribution centre, using Zebra ATR7000 overhead RTLS readers, FX9600 fixed readers and…
How NHS Trusts Use RFID to Find Equipment in Minutes, Not Hours
Across the NHS, clinical staff spend a surprising amount of time searching for essential equipment. Infusion pumps, wheelchairs, patient monitors and portable ventilators go missing between wards, storage rooms and…
NXP Advances Real-Time Industrial Positioning with New Omlox Starter Kit
NXP Semiconductors has unveiled its omlox Starter Kit, a turnkey development platform designed to simplify the deployment of ultra-wideband (UWB) real-time location systems (RTLS) in industrial environments. The kit brings…
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