Argos to Install Yard Management System to Boost DC Productivity

U.K. retailer Argos plans to deploy yard management software at its distribution centers across the country to optimize resources and improve efficiencies in day-to-day operations.

‘EPCmagic’ mirror a new technology launched by NEC and GSI

RFID, LCD and networking technologies combine to enhance shopping experience, and provide a new advertising channel.
NEC and supply chain standards group GS1 today launched a new technology, called the EPCmagic Mirror, that can display key product information such as available sizes, colours and prices to shoppers as they try on clothes in a store.
Using GS1 [...]

Eyewear Retailer applies RFID to eliminate shoplifting

Santa Fe Optical applies EPC tags to all of the frames it sells, helping it to eliminate shoplifting and streamline inventory management.
When Santa Fe Optical opened its third location in Austin, more than a year ago, the store experienced an uptick in theft, resulting in losses of up to $5,000 per incident. Bob Ross, [...]

Infosys Technologies Ltd launches ShoppingTrip360

Infosys Technologies Limited today launched ShoppingTrip360 to help retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies achieve visibility into in-store activity.  
ShoppingTrip360 is a platform that enables a suite of managed-information services to create a 360-degree view of real-time in-store shopper and shelf activity.
ShoppingTrip360 leverages a network of wireless sensor-based applications within the store that allows [...]

Types Of RFID Tags (Update#1)

RFID products fall into two basic categories: Passive and Active. Passive tags do not have batteries and have indefinite life expectancies. Active Tags are powered by batteries and either have to be recharged, have their batteries replaced or be disposed of when the batteries fail.

Various Types of Antennas (above)
RFID products are then broken up [...]

Protecting against Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RFID data attacks

NEW YORK–Using a laptop, cell phone headset, building access badge, credit cards, or even a passport can make you a walking target for data thieves and other criminals, a security expert warned at the Last HOPE hacker conference here late Friday.
In a frightening but entertaining session entitled “How do I Pwn Thee? Let me [...]

What is the RFID chip and how will it be sold to the public?

What is the RFID chip?
A lot of people think the RFID chip is all about more Big Brother surveillance. Look at the CCTV around you: clearly that is for surveillance. So what is the microchip for? The microchip is an implantable device (about the size of a grain of sand) that has the ability to [...]

RFID “virtual walls” Allow for Closer Assets Tracking

RFID has long since been a pretty common find in your modern day hospital, but now GE and CenTrak are teaming up to make the technology even more useful in those long, winding hallways. Simply hailed as RFID “virtual walls,” the creation enables venues to “track tagged mobile medical equipment down to a portion of [...]

Wal-Mart expands RFID requirements

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is looking to accelerate its RFID rollout, and once again the Dallas area is at the heart of the effort.
The company is requiring all suppliers shipping products to its Sam Club’s distribution center in DeSoto to start applying the radio tags to their pallets starting today.
If they don’t, Wal-Mart will charge [...]

Two main Types of RFID Tags

Passive RFID Tags
Passive RFID tags have no internal power supply. The minute electrical current induced in the
antenna by the incoming radio frequency signal provides just enough power for the CMOS
integrated circuit in the tag to power up and transmit a response. The lack of an onboard
power supply means that the device can be quite [...]