Railway tracking systems and the monitoring of railway vehicles in real-time can improve their operational safety and reliability while reducing the life-cycle costs of both passenger and freight ...

The ability to track the location of assets, people and equipment—or anything of value to a business—has been garnering a lot of attention lately. This is evidenced by the number of demonstrations, ...

Radio frequency identification is already established in the realm of defense logistics, helping to keep tabs on the mountains of materiel moved through the military services’ supply chain. But RFID ...

Automation can take many forms within a manufacturing facility. Xemelgo’s software, combined with RFID tagging technology, enables manufacturers like Sekisui Aerospace to automatically locate and ...

Some time ago, Michelin partnered with Beontag, an RFID manufacturer, to add embedded UHF tags to tires in both commercial and passenger vehicles. The main aim is stronger tire traceability, improving ...

Vizinex RFID, a developer and manufacturer of high performance RFID tags tailored to specific applications, recently introduced the next generation of its long read range tag, the XLR. The XLR has an ...

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) specialist Impinj has devised a way to make it easier for manufacturers and stores to put RFID tags on shirts, CDs and other consumer items, a move that should ...

RFID, or radio frequency identification, has come a long way since the early 2000s. At that time, Walmart was the first big retailer to experiment with the new tracking technology, which cost an ...

RFID tags will be smaller and cheaper--good news for corporations, but privacy advocates could flinch. Photo: RFID tags get smaller Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he ...