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Work-In-Progress Control With RFID
by CoreRFID
Vaillant Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning technology.
The company, based in Remscheid, Germany, develops and manufactures products across a product portfolio ranging from efficient heating appliances based on customary fuels to system solutions for using regenerative energy sources.
At Vaillant Group's manufacturing plant in Belper, Derbyshire, UK, domestic & industrial boilers are manufactured for the UK and Netherlands. Managing work in progress is an important issue for Vaillant Group, helping them to control costs and ensure product quality. They chose an approach using UHF RFID and worked with CoreRFID to make their automated production management system a reality.  |
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of an RFID Asset Tracking System
by RAMP RFID
This paper outlines the cost?benefit analysis of using UHF RFID technology in an asset?tracking application. To facilitate the analysis, RFID will be compared against the incumbent technology, bar?coding. An experiment comparing these two technologies was conducted, and the findings from this experiment are further analysed.This document aims to inform the reader of the potential labour savings unlocked through the implementation of RFID processes in an asset tracking business activity. The designed experiment tries to quantify definite time savings, which directly lead to significant labour cost savings. |
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Alternative NFC Form Factors
by The Human Chain
The benefits of integrated Near Field Communications (NFC) functionality in the mobile handset are clear for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs)/network carriers, members of the financial services ecosystem, service providers and end users. A device that combines smart card technology with the addition of a screen, keyboard and 'always on' communications sounds like the nirvana of the financial, transit ticketing and access control worlds.
But there are significant questions that are still un-answered some five or even six years into the development of NFC technologies in mobiles. In the new mobile NFC ecosystem who is going to pay for the increased costs of new handsets and UICC SIM cards? This is a complex ecosystem where new business actors such as Trusted Service Managers (TSMs) and secure domain owners/ managers will require some portion of the revenue, therefore reducing the revenue and profits for existing players. |
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Datanet Asia Pacific - Curbside Recycling Bin Tracking
by Tracient Technologies
Historically, city councils in Australia pay their rubbish collection contractors according to the number of households in the area. The problem is not every household puts hteir bin out every week and councils are effectively paying the contractor for uncollected bins. So councils are mandating their rubbish contractors use RFID tags to record every bin emptied and charge the Council accordingly. |
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Printed Electronics and Thin Printed Batteries: Powering a World of Product Innovation
by Blue Spark Technologies
Despite current economic constraints, many prominent industry analysts are bullish on the future potential and growth of printed electronics. IDTechEx forecasts the market for printed electronics at over USD $35 billion by 2018. Similarly optimistic forecasts have been made for thin printed batteries, a subset of printed electronics. NanoMarkets has predicted the market for thin film and printed batteries will exceed USD $5 billion by 2015. This paper takes a closer look at thin printed carbon-zinc battery technology - its capabilities, potential markets and applications, as well as the advantages of these printed batteries over traditional coin or button power cells. |
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RFID Technology Enabled Library Management System
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by RapidRadio Solutions
RFID technology can fully automate various transactions happening within a Campus. Students, teachers and staff can be provided with RFID smart cards for their attendance and access to various labs and library. Library systems can also be automated by using RFID which can include issuing of books, security gates, searching of books, etc. Assets like computers, electronic equipment and mechanical tools which are constantly on the go for student experiments can be tracked to improve their usage by various departments. Hostel can also be better managed with access control system installed for students. |
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Document tracking with PJM
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by Magellan Technology
PJM StackTag technology allows for reliable document tracking. It is unique in its capability to communicate with hundreds of tightly stacked tags that have virtually no separation, like RFID tags on single page documents. With the PJM anti-collision protocol it is possible to manage more than 16,000 tagged pages or files per reader at identification speeds of 700 tags per second. Magellan offers a wide range of specific PJM StackTag labels and dedicated reader products to track thousand of documents through office and archive environments. |
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Pharmaceutical item level tagging
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by Magellan Technology
PJM technology meets all performance and robustness requirements for the healthcare industry today. It is unique in its capability to identify closely stacked RFID tags even with close proximity to metals, glass or liquids and its anti-collision method allows for identification of large quantities of moving items at rates beyond 600 items per second. PJM offers the reliable issuing of products on high speed conveyors, writing unique 128 bit identification numbers to individual items, at speeds of more than 3000 items per minute. Security features like unique chip IDs etc. offer a wide portfolio of functions to protect against counterfeiting. |
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Dot Micro-Wireless Technology for Business Activity Monitoring
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by Axcess International
Axcess International announced its micro-wireless technology platform called Dot, the world's smallest, most powerful, lowest cost battery-powered wireless computer. It provides a dynamic view into the status of every "thing" operating in the enterprise and how each thing contributes to the goals of the enterprise.
By enabling automatic sensing, identification and assessment of business activity in real time, the Dot chip provides for improved productivity, security and revenue growth by delivering wireless intelligence unattainable until now. Dot-based solutions exemplify what industry analyst firm Forrester Research calls "The Extended Internet" market, forecasted to grow to $11.6 billion by 2012. |
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The Intel UHF RFID Transceiver R1000
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by Intel
The Intel UHF RFID Transceiver R1000 provides unprecedented levels of design flexibility by integrating approximately 90 percent of the discrete components found in a typical RFID reader radio (including receive, transmit, baseband, modulation and demodulation functionality) onto a single chip. The Intel R1000 delivers high performance with significantly lower power consumption, supporting a full range of reader form factors and applications, from short-range handheld readers to long-range dock door readers. |
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