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| Apparel Retailers Get RFID |
| Posted By: www.rfidjournal.com |
| Create Date: 27/02/2012 |
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| The VICS Item Level RFID Initiative's recent meeting and dinner revealed that great progress is being made toward the technology's adoption in retail apparel. |
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| PigTracker Project Finds UHF Tags Effective for Swine |
| Posted By: www.rfidjournal.com |
| Create Date: 27/02/2012 |
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| The Danish Agriculture & Food Council conducted a three-year pilot at five farms to learn how well EPC passive UHF tags performed for tracking pigs. |
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| Sensors Track Consumer Goods Bound for Troops in Afghanistan |
| Posted By: www.rfidjournal.com |
| Create Date: 27/02/2012 |
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| To combat theft or security breaches, American President Lines is using Cubic's Container Tracking and Monitoring Solution to monitor overseas shipments to U.S. post exchanges. |
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| Researchers Seek to Reduce Wastage for First-Strike Rations |
| Posted By: www.rfidjournal.com |
| Create Date: 27/02/2012 |
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| A Florida group is studying ways to track the temperatures of food rations traversing the U.S. military's supply chain, and is developing software that would calculate how temperature could alter shelf-life. |
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| Survey Shows Half of U.S. Retailers Have Already Adopted Item-Level RFID |
| Posted By: www.rfidjournal.com |
| Create Date: 27/02/2012 |
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| The survey, conducted by Accenture on behalf of the VICS Item Level RFID Initiative, finds that if tag prices continue to drop and adoption momentum remains steady, most retailers will be using RFID technology within five years. |
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| GS1 US Offers "EPC Item-Level Readiness Program" Aimed at Retailers, Suppliers |
| Posted By: www.rfidjournal.com |
| Create Date: 27/02/2012 |
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| The program, consisting of webinars, discussion groups and support tools, is intended to help U.S. consumer goods suppliers and retailers pilot and deploy EPC-based UHF Gen 2 item-level RFID technology. |
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| Goodpack to RFID-enable 2.6 Million Bulk Containers |
| Posted By: www.rfidjournal.com |
| Create Date: 27/02/2012 |
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| The Singapore-based container company is using EPC tags and readers to track the locations and conditions of its reusable steel IBCs at its depots, and at its customers' facilities, across the globe. |
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| International Group Tests RFID for Food Safety to Hawaii |
| Posted By: www.rfidjournal.com |
| Create Date: 27/02/2012 |
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| The project is using radio frequency identification and GPS technologies to track the temperature and location of produce as it is shipped from Taiwan and California to Armstrong Produce, a food company in Honolulu. |
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| Impinj Seeks to Make Serializing Data Easy |
| Posted By: www.rfidjournal.com |
| Create Date: 27/02/2012 |
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| The RFID chipmaker is launching Monza Self-Serialization, its chip-based EPC serialization method designed to make it easy for a supplier to encode tags with unique ID numbers, and to ensure that it never duplicates Electronic Product Codes. |
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| Checkpoint Systems Launches New Tags, Encoding Solutions |
| Posted By: www.rfidjournal.com |
| Create Date: 27/02/2012 |
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| The company's latest offerings were introduced to serve the growing number of apparel retailers and their suppliers seeking to deploy RFID throughout their operations to increase sales, reduce out-of-stocks and enhance loss-prevention efforts. |
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