RFID Applications in Building industry..

NM — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:20:19 GMT

Let's talk about unique usage of RFID Applications in Building industry..one i know is ,Fire doors being tagged using RFID...

RFID - fact or fiction?

timbo — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:36:05 GMT

A few years ago many organisations where hyping up RFID to ridiculous heights, talking about the day (in the not too distant future) when we could simply load up our shopping trollies with goods, push the trolley through some form of reader and instantly have the total costs subtracted from our accounts.

As somone who hates supermarket shopping with a vengence, particularly queueing, when is this goign to happen??? Or was it all just hype?

European Commission and Universal Postal Union's plans

NM — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:13:52 GMT

With full liberalisation of all the EU's national postal services planned for 2013, the likely increase in the number of operators will make improved traceability of sent items a vital necessity to avoid dysfunctions, the European Commission has underlined, calling for the deployment of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips to tackle the issue.

Click here to read full article

Gen 2 tag for asset tracking...

bar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:10:54 GMT

Is there anyone out there who is piloting, or planning to pilot, the use of a Gen 2 tag for asset tracking?

Is RFID difficult to counterfeit?

Benjamin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:55:42 GMT

With so many counterfeit products on the market now days, is RFID a via solution to solve counterfeiting (particularly for medicines)? Is it also possible to apply different levels of security to the tags used?

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