RegardingID Archive | IDS touts chip's pharmaceutical use

Thursday, October 9, 2008

IDS Microchip, a Swiss manufacturer of RFID semiconductor technology, is publicizing the implementation of its universal smart label chip, IDS-SL13A, by the pharmaceutical industry.

The chip is being used as a practical way to automatically track, monitor, time-stamp and record information about unseen changes, like extreme temperature, that could impact the quality of environmentally sensitive goods while in transit.

Using the chip, drug companies can check shipment quality immediately upon arrival, and without human contact with the commodities in the shipment. IDS estimates that their label chips are up to ten times more economical than other solutions currently in use.

Germany’s Maxsol, which offers automation software solutions for the health care industry, is incorporating IDS’s smart label chip technology into its ISO 15693 reader firmware, which is expected to ease the technology’s adoption by drug companies. IDS Microchip will demonstrate the Maxsol solution at Munich’s electronica event in November.

CEITEC unveils RFID chip for multiple logistics applications

CEITEC S.A. announced the final development of its integrated circuit for supply chain and manufacturing tracking: the CTC13000.

The CTC13000 offers a versatile, passive RFID chip the supports multiple logistic applications for asset tracking, from prototyping to final assembly, as well as inventory control and post-production. It can also be applied in end user applications such as airline baggage, grocery and medical assets.

IC-TAG receives certification from Alien Technology

IC-TAG Solutions announced it has earned certification from Alien Technology to use its EPC Gen 2 RFID inlays.

IC TAG utilizes Alien Technology’s EPC Gen 2 Squiggle, Squiglette, and Square inlays in their IC-TAG RFID labels and tags. Alien uses its own proprietary microchip, Higgs 3, to produce its ultra-high frequency RFID tracking devices.

Suprema receives final certifications for use in UID

Suprema announced that its RealScan-G10 and RealScan-10 line of fingerprint scanners have received final certification from the Government of India’s Standardization Testing & Quality Certification (STQC) to be part of the country’s Unique ID (UID) project.

SmartMetric introduces biometric-enhanced EMV card

In an effort to increase the security of the current EMV chip and PIN, SmartMetric has created an EMV card enhanced with biometrics.

The SmartMetric Chip & Biometric EMV Card incorporates fingerprints to activate the card. It’s designed to increase the security of standard EMV chip and PIN cards, which SmartMetric claims are still vulnerable to fraud attacks, even though they are safer than a magnetic stripe card.

Visa chip cards hit 1 million in U.S.

Visa has announced that more than 1 million EMV chip-enabled cards have been issued by U.S. financial institutions as of December 31, 2011.

Just 18 months ago there were no Visa-branded EMV chip cards issued in the U.S. according to Visa’s Stephanie Ericksen, who attributes the sudden growth to U.S. issuers accepting Visa’s EMV and mobile payments road map.

Visa: U.S. EMV doesn’t mean chip and PIN

EMV in the U.S. won’t be chip and PIN but instead a new technology that takes advantage of the online infrastructure available in the U.S., according to Stephanie Ericksen, head of Authentication Product Integration at Visa USA.

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