In the previous article, “The principles of RFID: Active Tags,” we discussed a classification of RFID tag called the active tag. Even though the active tag has many applications, it does not get as ...

Market research and events firm IDTechEx find that the passive RFID tag market is now seeing tremendous volume growth – more than five years later than the industry had expected. Most of the growth is ...

Sunnyvale startup Wirama announced that they've finished the most precise RFID reader available yet, with the ability to locate passive RFID tags to within 6 inches (through the EPC Class 1 Gen 2 ...

Korean tire manufacturer Kumho Tire is employing passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tags to track its consumption of the rubber materials that it uses to assemble tires at two of its factories.

When Wal-Mart and other retailers first issued tagging mandates, many suppliers responded by tagging RF-friendly products. But as suppliers scale up their RFID deployments—either to meet growing ...

RFID stands for “radio frequency identification,” and refers to a technology that uses radio waves to transmit information short distances. An RFID asset tracking system uses a combination of tags ...

Engineering researchers have developed a suite of techniques that allow them to create passive radio-frequency identification tags that are 25 percent smaller -- and therefore less expensive.

The U.S. Army will begin the Defense Department’s first test of passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in February, using the same kinds of technology and electronic product code (EPC) ...

RFID devices can be useful internet of things endpoints, but they should be checked for security and compatibility before deployment Legacy manual and barcode systems are still in widespread use, but ...