RegardingID Archive | Temperature extremes? Use this tag

Friday, May 5, 2006

It’s no secret extreme temperatures, water, metal and such can interfere with RFID’s powers.

A number of vendors are tackling this problem, one product at a time.

Enter RFID Gen 2 vet Intermec, Inc.’s new reusable, ruggedized RFID (radio frequency identification) tag. According to Intermec, this piece of work is capable of withstanding temperature extremes and hazardous exposures common in manufacturing and material handling operations. Starting this week, th “Intermec RFID Large Rigid Tag,” available immediately in EPCglobal Gen 2 and ISO 18000-6B versions for use worldwide.

Check it out for yourself.

Rhode Island health system boosts patient care with AeroScout RTLS

AeroScout is working with Siemens Healthcare to deploy AeroScout’s real-time location system to help health care organizations improve operations and quality of care.

Most recently Siemens implemented AeroScout’s Temperature Monitoring solution across three of Lifespan’s hospitals in Rhode Island. Using its existing Wi-Fi network, Lifespan is monitoring and managing the temperature of hundreds of refrigerators that contain critical items, such as pharmaceuticals, blood, and research materials.

TAGSYS reveals end-to-end RFID visibility to industrial laundries

TAGSYS has introduced its total management system for the textile rental services market, an end-to-end system to enable laundries and their customers to reduce linen abuse, regulate hoarding and accelerate their time for return on investment.

Intelleflex improves condition monitoring for food and pharmaceuticals

Intelleflex announced an expanding portfolio of solution offerings for automating data capture and condition monitoring and track and trace accountability for food and pharmaceutical industries.

TegoChip targets ATA Spec 2000 aviation compliance

Tego Inc. announced the addition of the TegoChip 2000 to its product line with optimization for Air Transport Associations (ATA) Spec 2000 part identification.

The TegoChip 2000, 2 kilobit low memory RFID chip is designed for tagging aircraft parts that require only birth record storage and identification. For example, oxygen tanks and life vests need to be accounted for but do not carry the record-intensive maintenance history needs of other aircraft parts.

Argonne National Laboratory taps RFID to safeguard nuclear materials

The Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois has equipped itself with an RFID-based surveillance tag system utilizing wireless sensing technology provided by Evigia Systems.

The integrated system consists of Evigia’s EV3 platform and will be used to track the physical locations and monitor the status to help ensure the safety and security of nuclear materials during processing, storage and transport.

Winemakers use NFC to monitor shipping

Several major wine producers are now using an NFC solution from eProvenance to monitor the temperature of their wine during shipment and storage, according to Point of Sale News.

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