August 04, 2006
RFID Roundup - Fri Aug 04/06
Informit.com has a tutorial on the basics of RFID interrogation zones, courtesy of a sample chapter from Que Books.
RFID Solutions asks, are your RFID tags breaking the chain? The US DoD (Dept of Defense) and giant retailers such as Wal-Mart insist upon their suppliers using RFID for the supply chain. So not only do CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) suppliers have to comply, they have to ensure that they're shipping with good RFID tags that will not fail somewhere in the supply chain.
Food suppliers in the UK have been slow to use RFID, but with the launch of a new RFID food network, thanks to BT (British Telecommunications), that may change. BT's Auto-ID will provide retailers with 24/7 access to stock data through the supply chain. [via Food Production Daily]
The USDA (US Dept of Agriculture) has approved the RFID-enabled livestock tags of Digital Angel Corp. The intent of the use of these tags is to track livestock shipments and hopefully reduce the spread of a number of diseases, including Mad-Cow, Foot and Mouth, etc. Each tag has an AIN, or Animal Identification Number, which uniquely identifies each head of livestock during its lifetime. [via Biz Journals, More RFID]
The CoBIs project, funded by IST (EU Information Society Technologies) will have RFID-enabled devices, such as drums of chemicals, talking to each other. [via European Process Engineer] CoBIs, which stands for Collaborative Business Items, is a project concerned with developing communication between physical entities using radio frequency and wireless technologies. This is essentially the same as SEDs (Service Enabled Devices).
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