RegardingID Archive | Slowly But Surely, RFID Collaborations ARE Happening

Monday, June 25, 2007

Piecemeal research may be happening less and less as RFID alliances and academic institutions are starting to share the collective wealth.

In the past 24 months, MIT has hosted five academic forums, and labs from around the world have gotten together to form the Global RF Lab Alliance to improve communication and collaboration, reports RFID Journal.

Illinois high school tests program to track bus riders

Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Ill., is piloting a program that can track students on school buses. The goal is to increase safety while determining more efficient bus routes. The school rolled out the program in late January that provides each student with a card that the student uses as he enters or exits a school bus.

Report: NFC phone shipments top 35M in 2011 – 80m predicted for 2012

The total number of NFC-enabled phones shipped globally hit 35 million units in 2011 and is expected to reach 80 million by the end of 2012, according to a new report from IMS Research.

Report: Top ten trend changes for 2012 in banking, payments, mobile, and security

Javelin Strategy & Research has released a report detailing the latest trends that are expected to transform the banking, payments, mobile and security sector for 2012.

Easier, better identitiy on the horizon

By Jon Callas, CTO, Entrust

One of the most exciting things that will happen in the next year or two is the confluence of a few major trends. It’s exciting because, together, they promise to make security and identity better and more manageable than it has been in the past.

ATM makers will need to implement chip card upgrades

Although Visa Inc. has created an incentive plan to get merchants and acquirers to accept EMV chip cards by a certain deadline, ATM makers will also soon have to get into the chip card game and build machines that accept EMV cards, reports the American Banker.

French team develops new method of embedding RFID

A team of researchers at the University of Montpellier in France have developed a way to embed a thin aluminum RFID tag on to paper.

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