Whitepapers

Whitepaper: GlobeRanger:
Case Study Real-Time Forensic Tracking & Tracing System

A case study of tracking and tracing forensic evidence.

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Whitepaper: Alien: Alien RFID a Winner at Innovative Timing Systems

The Jaguar Timing Platform is designed to handle running events (5Ks, 10Ks, trail runs, and marathons) as well as cycling races, time trials, duathlons, triathlons, and motocross racing. The system can handle races with as few as 50 athletes and as large as 500,000 competitors. (more)

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Whitepaper: Seagull Scientific:
What's New in BarTender 9.0.

Seagull Scientific launches version 9.0 of its BarTender label and RFID software. Front and center is the companion "Printer Maestro" application for enterprise print management, providing users of any Windows program with a single viewing area for the status of all printers and print jobs for all computers on a network. Also introduced are detailed logging of print job information and application messages to a database.

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Wavetrend: Interactive Lot Technologies / Havertown Mitsubishi

Havertown Mitsubishi, a new car dealer, needed to provide the accurate, real-time vehicle tracking capabilities to meet business challenges. Wavetrend's active RFID system was implemented for inventory monitoring with Interactive Lot's web-based software. Readers were installed at the dealership's main facility and its off-site storage lot, and their networks fed collected data over the Internet to the company's servers.

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Whitepaper: ADASA:
McAllister's Law of RFID Mandate Compliance: The Key to Wide Spread RFID Adoption

By: Clarke McAllister, Chief Technology Officer of ADASA Inc.
McAllister's Law states that mass compliance with retailer tagging mandates will not occur until the cost of encoding and applying an RFID tag is less than the cost of the tag itself.

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Whitepaper: InSync Software:
Reality Aware Systems - The "SKYNET" Concept

Today's enterprise systems are on the verge of automating their actions based upon their awareness of physical reality. In recent years, with the rise of RFID, sensor-based computing is becoming mainstream at the enterprise level.

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Whitepaper: InSync Software:
RFID and Sensor-DRIVEN Fresh Food Safety and Harvest Management

Safety of fresh produce is managed primarily by identifying and tracing produce batches through the chain of custody. This allows for multiple participants in the supply chain to see a particular batches' origin, including and the history of who was in contact with it, and its physical condition throughout. Some systems that leverage sensor arrays and Internet-based software to manage the fresh product process are in place with leading fresh food companies.

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Whitepaper: Forrester:
The ROI of RFID For Supply Chain Visibility

The business value of employing RFID for supply chain visibility across trading partners has been blurred by questions about costs, benefits, and scope. An analysis of RFID for item-level visibility across manufacturing and distribution operations shows that investment with minimal systems integration is not likely to produce an ROI at today's prices. However, combining RFID-generated event data with the right business context from enterprise apps will produce a modest ROI and positive business benefits in a typical manufacturing and distribution supply chain.

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Whitepaper:
Acsis: Driving Profitability at the Execution Layer: How a Common Platform Can Improve the Bottom Line"

This paper discusses how automation technology is driving increased efficiency in today's manufacturing and distribution environments. However, companies often fail to achieve maximum benefits from these investments in one key area: creating actionable information to support real-time business and operational decision-making.

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Whitepaper:
Awarepoint: From A to Zigbee
the Truth about Sensor Networks

Today, myriad technology options exist each purporting to provide the best RFID-RTLS for the specific needs of the healthcare market.

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Whitepaper:
Intermec: UHF vs. HF RFID
New Insight on the Old Debate

This whitepaper provides a brief overview of UHF and HF technologies, highlights new developments and capabilities, presents examples that illustrate why some long held beliefs and biases are no longer valid, and explains why process considerations are key to selecting the right frequency and getting the most value from an RFID system.

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Whitepaper:
The Advantages of FRAM-Based Smart ICs for Next Generation Government Electronic IDs

The next generation ICs will employ an advanced embedded memory technology, called FRAM (Ferroelectric Random Access Memory), which considerably improves the speed and reliability of future smart, secure e-passports and government ID documents. More than 50 countries have electronic passport (e-passport) programs, and many countries are also putting in place more secure forms of electronic citizen, visitor and government employee identification. As the volume of document issuance increases and new security threats occur, there is an increased need for industry-standard, next-generation contactless smart IC solutions that securely store, process and communicate data.

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Whitepaper:
Capturing the Value of EPC
Gen 2 Custom Commands

This white paper highlights the EPC Gen 2 Custom Commands functions available in NXP’s G2X series of integrated circuits and supported by Sirit’s Infinity 510 UHF reader. These products are compliant to the EPC Gen 2 standard, while also offering features that may allow users to capture additional value from an RFID application. This document includes details on the implementation of EPC Gen 2 custom commands within NXP’s G2X chips and Sirit’s Infinity 510 reader and provides use-case scenarios as examples of potential supplementary benefits to RFID end-users.

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Whitepaper:
Beyond product codes: new opportunities for Radio Frequency Identification technology

The market possibilities opened up by low-cost, customizable RFID tags. RFID technology is expanding its role from that of straightforward identification to one that enables greater interactivity and data sharing. This requires greater numbers of small, low-cost active RFID tags and greater levels of integration and adaptation to more sophisticated, smaller-scale applications. RFID solution developers will require low-cost active RFID tag technology and custom design expertise that will enable adaptation to a huge variety of needs at competitive cost.

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Whitepaper:
WaveTrend: Understanding the Benefits of Active RFID for Asset Tracking

How companies can address their auto-identification challenges with active RFID technology

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Whitepaper:
Intermec: How Professional Services Add Value to RFID Projects

This white paper shows how qualified service providers can add value to RFID projects, highlights some of the planning issues and considerations that call for experienced advice, and provides guidance to the types of services available and how to differentiate service providers.

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Whitepaper:
ABCs of RFID: Understanding and Using Radio Frequency Identification

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is one of the fastest growing and most beneficial technologies being adopted by businesses today. An Intermec Whitepaper.

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Whitepaper:
Adjusted RFID System Solutions In Focus

The market for contactless labels has passed through the trough and out the other side—RFID is gaining momentum again: In 2007 144 million RFID tags were sold in the EU alone. A Delo Specialist Article

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Whitepaper: Zebra Technologies: Top 10 Best Practices to RFID Mandated Sam's Club Suppliers

Zebra Technologies cites the 10 best practices for successful RFID implementation. These tips are especially timely for suppliers of Sam's Club who will soon face service fees if they fail to meet the retailer's deadlines for RFID tagging compliance.

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Whitepaper: Ekahau: The Case for Real Time Location Systems

This paper describes the characteristics and advantages of deploying WiFi-based RTLS. Many factors must be taken into consideration when selecting a location tracking technology and vendor. Find out what three keystones can help any organization make a sound decision.

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Whitepaper: Item Level Serialization

Sometimes it feels like there may be more questions than answers regarding how to comply with the California ePedigree law. The path to readiness is complex and can be overwhelming to even the most enthusiastic advocate. As an industry, the Pharmaceutical Market has both a challenge and an opportunity. The challenge is to create Pedigrees and Mass Serialize all Rx Prescription Drugs. The opportunity is to provide our country with a much stronger level of Patient Safety and our companies with an improved Supply Chain, Brand Protection, and perhaps, at the end of the day, an ROI on the time and money invested in the process.

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Whitepaper: The ERP Warehouse Module vs. Best-of-Breed WMS

There are critical differences between ERP warehouse management functionality and the functionality of a stand-alone, best-of-breed WMS. Uncover critical decision factors every supply chain professional must consider when comparing these two very different options.

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Whitepaper: Embedded RFID: Transforming the Management of Medical Devices & Supplies

This paper identifies key challenges facing manufacturers of medical devices and supplies and explains how embedded RFID technology is being leveraged to overcome those challenges in a way that enhances safety and reliability, increases revenue and brand equity, and reduces operating costs. Significant investment has gone into making RFID practical, cost-efficient, and easy-to-use, especially in embedded applications. Embedded RFID has become a game-changing technology that medical manufacturers and healthcare providers are using to satisfy some of their most pressing needs.

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Whitepaper: The Importance of Tamper-Evident RFID Tags in Electronic Vehicle Registration (EVR) Solutions

Governments around the world are confronted with transport infrastructure-based challenges. Whether as a part of an established system with maintenance requirements or a growing nation with new road construction, properly financing these projects is becoming more important. In addition, modern transportation management systems are requring more capable and more sophisticated technologies to manage automotive networks and provide valuable services.

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Whitepaper: The Intelligent Edge: Work-In-Process Visibility

To stay competitive, today's lean manufacturers need to provide real-time visibility on work-in-progress to their personnel to immediately react to changes and address problems. To stay compliant and provide better customer service, the same manufacturers need to track the parts, components, or raw materials that make up the end product without impacting their operations and increase their costs.

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Whitepaper: Neology 51: Pharma and Healthcare Item Level Tracking

This paper takes a unique look at the growing healthcare RFID market, explaining the various technologies utilized in RFID pharmaceutical tracking and the common frequencies used such as HF and UHF. Most significant, Neology's proprietary high-performance 2.45 GHz technology is explained, compared, and contrasted to others in the marketplace.

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Whitepaper: Texas Instruments: The Advantages of FRAM-Based Smart ICs for Next Generation Government Electronic IDs

This whitepaper focuses on next generation ICs, which employ an advanced embedded memory technology that considerably improves the speed and reliability of future smart, secure e-passports, and government ID documents.

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Whitepaper: Sage #2: The Future of Security

McAfee releases a report on the future of Cybercrime, including sections about the possible threats that RFID could pose. The struggle struggle between security personnel and malware authors is a constant threat now and going forward.

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Whitepaper: Nashua: High Volume RFID Labeling for Department of Defense Compliance

The DoD chose RFID technology to increase the efficiency of its supply chains of Meals-Ready-to-Eat. Of the three suppliers of MREs, two chose IDentiTRAK Technologies to achieve complaince. IDentiTRAK chose Nashua Corporation as the supplier of the RFID lables.

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Whitepaper: Emerson & Cuming Microwave Products Ensuring Successful Operation Of RFID Tags In Aerospace Asset Tracking

RFID's tag operation on metal is troublesome in the aerospace asset tracking arena, such as with airplane parts featuring metal casings and components. Emerson & Cuming Microwave Products now offers a patented, thin elastomer, which when placed between an RFID tag and metal will allow the tag to be read.

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Texas Instruments: Improving Payment Experience

With contactless cards, computational speed and RF sensitivity are factored into the consumer's perceived transaction time. So a balance between speed and energy efficiency (a.k.a. sensitivity) is required in the chip design. Texas Instruments has a series of contactless payment products designed specifically to offer high sensitivity and enable custom, small form factor payment devices beyond cards.

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Yard Hound: Real-Time Yard Visibility

Yard visibility is having real-time information about all the activities in the yard at your fingertips. Yard operations with real-time visibility are more efficient than those without real-time visibility.

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Improving Patient Safety with RFID-enabled Packaging and Logistics

Cephalon, Inc. is an international biopharmaceutical company that currently markets six proprietary products in the United States. It began evaluating RFID technology in 2004 in order to compare results of RFID Gen 1 tag readability and placement tests with similar tests using Gen 2 technology and evaluate the performance (sensitivity and receptivity) of the Impinj UHF Gen 2 Speedway™ reader.

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Paxar's Achieving Return on Investment Using RFID for Jewelry Tracking

While some end-users search for a viable ROI in use of RFID tracking, one application that has clear and immediate benefit is using RFID in jewelry tracking. Tracking jewelry inventory is uniquely suited to the use of RFID for several reasons including high value, daily display and inventory of goods, and the need for one-on-one customer attention.

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Shipping Test Examines RFID Label Durability

With vendor charge-backs for unreadable RFID labels an impending likelihood, concerns about RFID label durability during the shipping process are substantial. However, despite the prevalence of in-house laboratory testing that can quickly validate readability of RFID labels prior to shipment, there is very little published available on the end results shipping. In order to verify the performance characteristics RFID labels throughout an actual distribution cycle, Paxar conducted a transit test involving the analysis of RFID labels affixed to a cross-country shipment read ranges measured both before and after shipment.

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SATO

SATO's RFID White Paper describes the basic components of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system and explores the technology, applications, and competitive advantages of RFID technology and its uses for Automatic Identification Data Collection (AIDC).

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Zebra Technologies

Zebra Technologies' white paper release, "Patient Safety Applications for Bar Code and RFID Technology," focuses on the benefits of both technologies within hospital environments.

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Texas Instruments/Smart Card Alliance

As a member of the Smart Card Alliance, Texas Instruments is supporting the organization's recommendation that smart card technology be implemented into state driver's licenses in order to comply with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005.

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RFID & UHF

This white paper examines the myths associated with UHF for item-level RFID applications and the physics and real-world tests and implementations that disprove them.

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Paxar: Item-Level RFID

Finding Value in Item Level RFID and Creating a Successful RFID Pilot Program.

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Making RFID Work

This paper describes the application of RFID to the utility asset inspection and maintenance process. It also briefly describes other application areas related to asset management processes and suggests how to approach project implementation.

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Symbol RFID - Understanding Gen 2

This paper examines the key new features and functionality available in Gen 2 and the benefits it can provide to organizations that look to RFID for significantly improving operational efficiency.

Generation 2 - Security

Identity theft, stolen credit card information, viruses, hackers, and other threats have raised data security—once an arcane topic relevant only to programmers—to high levels of public awareness. Keeping data secure is a vital concern for individuals, corporations, and governments. Data security is an issue that has broad implications for business practices and technology. And it's a highly emotional issue—what could be more personal than your Social Security number, address, or personal preferences?

Securing the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain - The Authenticated RFID Platform

Ensuring a safe and secure pharmaceutical supply chain is an important and challenging task. The need to build security into pharmaceutical products, packaging and supply chains has never been greater because of the increasing sophistication of well-funded counterfeiters. Counterfeiters find pharmaceuticals attractive targets because they are valuable, small, and easy to introduce into the complex supply chain.

Alien Technology Corporation

EPCglobal Class 1 Gen 2 RFID Specification

This paper provides a brief explanation of how Class 1 Generation 2 improves on previous EPC protocols and the expected impact of these benefits.

The Alien Enterprise RFID Platform

An enterprise RFID platform that delivers power now and adaptability in the future.

Mastering RFID Label Converting:
Where Understanding Static Control Can Help Prevent RFID Transponder Failures.

Static electricity generation is virtually unavoidable during the manufacture of RFID labels, even with the most advanced converting equipment. When a discharge of static electricity, or Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) travels through the transponder antenna into the RFID chip, permanent chip failure and loss or corruption of stored data can occur. From the lamination process to the final product at the end user, each step in the RFID label manufacturing process exposes the RFID inlay to electrostatic charges and discharges that can cause the chip to fail.

The RFID Software Conundrum:
Understanding Ambiguous "Middleware" and the Software Needed for Successful RFID Deployments

The market for adopting and for actually deploying RFID solutions is maturing quickly. It's amazing how a deadline can create so much focus. Increasingly, customers are shifting from a manual "slap and ship" approach, to a much more automated one for case level tagging. We have seen a dramatic increase in the number of solutions available for automated encode and apply machines and there has been acceleration in the marketplace to quickly shift tagging operations out of the warehouse and distribution area and back into the manufacturing line. The impetus for this is clear, as this is the lowest cost option for manufacturers in the long term, and it provides the best chance to capture data accurately, which in turn drives the return of investment needed by suppliers.

The Benefits of Automating a Slap and Ship Operation

The realities of Wal-Mart's RFID mandate are beginning to sink in for many of the retailer's major suppliers. While the retailer's top 100 suppliers were charged with a Jan 1, 2005 deadline for RFID compliance, 200 more are working toward a rapidly approaching Jan. 1, 2006 deadline. This is just the beginning of an industry-wide switch to RFID as Wal-Mart sets the pace for other large retailers, once again.

RFID Comes of Age

North of England Inward Investment Agency

RFID Comes of Age is a briefing paper written by the Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by The North of England Inward Investment Agency. This report concludes that RFID is gathering momentum, the supply chain is becoming smarter, RFID works for people as well as things, and much work remains to be done.

Printronix RFID Case Studies

Electronics and Technology

Smart Partnering for a High-Tech Titan

Food and Beverage

Chips in the Freezer: An RFID Pilot for a Frozen Food Master

Frozen Foods

Taking the Freeze out of RFID

Securing the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain with RFID and Public-key infrastructure (PKI) Technologies

To combat the problem of counterfeit and compromised drugs, this paper introduces a new approach for advancing the security of the pharmaceutical supply chain and improving patient safety. This approach is built on existing industry standards and adds a new layer of authentication to pharmaceutical drugs in the supply chain to create an Authenticated radio frequency identification (RFID) capability at the item level. Authenticated RFID combines globally accepted and deployed ISO/IEC standards for RFID and Public-key infrastructure (PKI) technologies. The result is elevated confidence in the security of the pharmaceutical supply chain as item-level authentication is combined with validated chain-of-custody transactions.