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. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/archive-4.gif)
