Welcome to the July 3, 2008 edition of Using RFID!
RFID to help eliminate glucose test needles?In the US, Georgetown University, RFID firm Gentag, and Science Applications International Corporation have joined forces to develop a non-invasive method for blood glucose measurement.
The three organisations agreed to combine their respective intellectual property (IP) and expertise to create a new method to monitor glucose, using disposable skin patches with wireless sensors and cell phones. The resulting products could potentially remove the need for finger-pricking with lancets to...
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RFID's new role in fuel theft prevention...With fuel prices in the US skyrocketing above US$4 per gallon and analysts predicting a price of US$200 per barrel by 2010, the ripple effect is already causing chaos around the world, according to RFID Switchboard's roving editor, Erik Wood.
Imagine the temptation of a tanker truck driver in Ecuador, Ghana or Lithuania who can change his life, and feed his entire family for more than a year, by siphoning a load of fuel and reselling it...
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RFID developed to track crop harvesting...Intelleflex has announced its continuing partnership with Minds Inc. to offer a real-time, RFID-enabled tracking solution for the agricultural market, combining Intelleflex's RFID technology with Minds' GPS capabilities to create an automated tracking system for harvesters.
Using the latest harvest tracking solution, growers and harvesters can track the exact location, timing and efficiency of each harvester, as well as the arrival, loading and departure time of crop transport vehicles...
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Alien unveils RFID 'intelligent tag radar'...Alien Technology has announced its new 'Intelligent Tag Radar' (ITR) software, developed for the ALR-9900, ALR-9800 and ALR-8800 enterprise class RFID reader platform.
The ITR system provides data not only about each UHF RFID tag's identity and memory contents, but also about the tag's position and the direction of any movement. Among the company's cited examples of possible applications are...
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US Army medical facility tracks records with RFID...3M reports that it has completed the development and installation of an RFID Smart Shelf system to track and manage the 150,000+ medical files of US Army personnel and their family members at Fort Hood, Texas, USA.
The custom-designed 3M RFID Smart Shelf System is the centrepiece of a pilot programme that may be extended to other military installations after a period of evaluation. The system is intended to reduce the errors and inefficiencies associated with the manual tracking, retrieval, filing and...
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