Bar code solutions are still the technology of choice for several applications despite the rise of RFID (radio frequency identification). But, what does the future hold? June of this year marked the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Researchers from the European Holst Center said their 64-bit, inductively-coupled, passive RFID tag achieved a record 780-bit/second data readout. In a presentation at the ...

Sept. 27, 2002 — There are some people who believe that they won’t see RFID labels being used to track individual items in stores in their lifetime. In fact, the first testing of such a system could ...

Newly developed radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology could usher in the era of checkout line-free shopping. The inexpensive, printable transmitter can be invisibly embedded in packaging ...

Researchers have come up with an inexpensive, printable transmitter that can be invisibly embedded in packaging. It would allow a customer to walk a cart full of groceries or other goods past a ...

Lines at the grocery store might become as obsolete as milkmen, if a new tag that seeks to replace bar codes becomes commonplace. Researchers from Sunchon National University in Suncheon, South Korea, ...

As more companies ramp up their RFID deployments and share data with supply-chain partners, a common problem has come to light. While many business applications need to process data from both bar ...

When you're talking about data collection, two technologies come to mind: bar code scanning and RFID (radio frequency identification). The former has been a staple in data collection for more than 30 ...

Know how many bags get lost at airports? Last year, the number hit a staggering 34 million globally, according to numbers from international transport association IATA. This cost the aviation industry ...

Three computer science researchers are warning that viruses embedded in radio tags used to identify and track goods are right around the corner, a danger that so far has been overlooked by the ...

(Nanowerk News) Long lines at store checkouts could be history if a new technology created in part at Rice University comes to pass. Rice researchers, in collaboration with a team led by Gyou-jin Cho ...

Long lines at store checkouts could be history if a new technology created in part at Rice University comes to pass. Rice researchers, in collaboration with a team led by Gyou-jin Cho at Sunchon ...