July 24, 2003 – Savi Technology is collaborating with EPC tag producer Matrics to develop a new range of equipment that will enable companies to combine long- and short-range RFID tags to create ...

Active RFID tags have a transmitter and their own power source (typically a battery). The power source is used to run the microchip’s circuitry and to broadcast a signal to a reader (the way a cell ...

Technology has matured to commercial availability, data standards are close to approval, and by year’s end Airbus and Boeing could be instructing suppliers to put radio-frequency identification (RFID) ...

NXP has created a read-write chip for high-volume RFID tag applications complying to Rain Alliance standards for UHF passive tags. It is branded ‘Ucode X’ and delivered in wafer form. “With Ucode X, ...

Toronto, Canada – GAO RFID Inc. (www.GAORFID.com) has released its 2.45GHz active beaconing RFID tag specially designed for asset locating and tracking, warehouse and inventory management. This active ...

To advance the ‘ambient internet of things’ – no batteries required A quartet of Japanese organisations plan to build “advanced ambient internet of things systems” using a newly approved ISO standard.

In a broad context, radio transmissions containing some type of identifying information are considered Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). This can be a cab driver using his unit number over the ...

The use of battery-powered wireless products in tagging and tracking applications is rising sharply, according to new data from a British consulting firm. “Active RFID” uses almost any wireless ...

Active RFID -- No governing standards, being developed -- Transmit energy often in 400 MHz, 900 MHz and 2.45 GHz ranges -- Requires onboard power source with large memory -- Can be read, or written to ...