RFID Product News Reader

Number 15

January 16, 2007

Welcome to RFID Product News Reader, published by RFID Product News. This e-newsletter will keep you current with the latest news in the RFID industry, covering new products, whitepapers, and more. In this issue:

TEK Industries Releases ZigBee Stack Compatible Active Tag TEK Industries launches the Z-SYSTEM: a three-part module compliant with the Microchip ZigBee stack. It is a flexible RFID tag radio system that provides a ready-made hardware platform for ZigBee stack applications. [more]

Niceware's Series of Enterprise-Wide Barcode and RFID Labeling and Printer Management Software Niceware® International introduces the NiceLabel Enterprise Series of barcode and RFID labeling software, designed for labeling solutions that consolidate enterprise-wide system management, monitoring, and alerting of printer and print job status and high-volume printing. [more]

Crown Teams up with Qinetiq to Resolve Challenges of RFID on Metal Packaging Crown Holdings and QinetiQ have launched a joint development program to adapt QinetiQ's Omni-ID Pak™ integrated RFID technology for use in metal packaging. This will enable brand owners to integrate UHF RFID tags into metal packaging for a wide variety of applications at the single item level. [more]

Mandate Driven Versus Improvement Driven Implementation Report by ChainLink Reseach ChainLink Research has produced a report on the differences in ROI between mandate-driven RFID implementation versus process-improvement driving RFID implementation. [more]

TI Whitepaper RFID technology can help protect the pharmaceutical supply chain from the growing number of counterfeit, gray market, and diverted products that enter it each year. But to do so, the industry needs item-level tagging standards, regulatory guidance from the federal government, and alignment on a Tag Data Security Infrastructure (TDSI). This whitepaper from Texas Instruments defines the key deliverables and requirements needed to achieve this "common ground" approach for securing the pharmaceutical supply chain. [more]

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