CURRENT NEWS

• Resource Label Group Expands West Coast Presence With Acquisition Of Best Label

  Resource Label Group, LLC (“Resource Label”), a full-service provider of pressure sensitive label, shrink sleeve and RFID/NFC technology for the packaging industry, recently announced it has acquired Best Label Company (“Best Label”), broadening its west coast presence and leading position in the label and packaging industry 

• Resource Label Group Acquires California-Based Spectrum Label

  Resource Label Group, LLC (“Resource Label”), a full-service provider of pressure sensitive label, shrink sleeve and RFID/NFC technology for the packaging industry, recently announced that it has acquired Spectrum Label Corporation (“Spectrum Label”), a leading supplier of pressure sensitive labeling solutions for various segments including food, medical and pharmaceutical 

• Vizinex RFID Increases Tag Assembly Capacity With New Manufacturing Equipment

  Vizinex RFID, the industry leader in developing and manufacturing high performance RFID tags tailored to specific applications, has added new manufacturing equipment to its facility.

• DAILY RFID Released A New UHF High Performance Fixed Reader

  Lately, DAILY RFID has released a UHF High Performance Fixed Reader with many new prominent features. DAILY RFID which has exported a quantity of productions to the major regions of the world and benefited millions of people is the leading RFID manufacturer with top technique and years of experiences.

• National Office System's RFID Tracking Technology Finds Able

  "Finding new markets for the same technologies that are driving the document efficiency revolution is key to survival in this industry," says NOS Principal and Co-owner Joseph Alvarez, "and we commend Able for taking this forward step on behalf of its customers."

FEATURE ARTICLES

• North Sails Leverages RFID Technology

  North Sails is the worldwide leader in sailmaking. North has always been a technology company. This focus on technology and innovation was fostered by the company founder, Lowell North, who left a career in aerospace engineering in 1957 to strike out on his own, to make sails.  

• MIT's Small Aerial Drones Relay RFID Signals To Track Merchandise

  Small, aerial drones that relay radio frequency (RF) signals could be used by retailers to more efficiently locate merchandise stored in large warehouses, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers who developed the system.

• RFID 101 + Pros And Cons

  If putting data into computer databases with little to no human intervention sounds appealing to your company, radio-frequency identification may be for you. Radio-frequency identification, otherwise known as RFID, is a technological tool that reads tags, identifies information about the object the label is attached to, and enters this information into a computer database. This technology is similar to barcoding; however, RFID systems are able to store much more information than traditional barcodes.

• The EPC Mandate ROI Guide

  Today, many retailers are promoting omnichannel retail initiatives in order to offer their services and products to more consumers on more marketing platforms. It’s no secret that retailers with growing omnichannel initiatives see strong benefits with RFID from the DC to receiving to the back room, and the selling floor.

• Transformative Technology Changing Manufacturing — Is RFID The Competitive Advantage You Need?

  At one time it was enough to just streamline operations to become more “Lean”. And those lean initiatives helped many manufacturers get through financial crises and economic downturns. Process automation and barcoding made a significant impact, but even the right mix of efficiency and business systems isn’t enough with today’s advancements.

FEATURED RFID PRODUCTS

Iteltrac

Iteltrac is a user-friendly, web-based solution that provides object (tools, parts, equipment and other assets) tracking and visibility in real time.

Laminate Composites For RF/Microwave Applications

Arlon Microwave Materials specializes in products made from fluoropolymers (i.e. PTFE), ceramic-filled fluoropolymers, ceramic-filled hydrocarbon thermosets, and other materials that deliver the electrical performance needed in frequency-dependent circuit applications. These products are supplied as copper-clad laminates with bonding plies, or prepregs, for production of multilayer printed circuits. Arlon has over "50 years of experience in microwave materials", today providing products that are used to make combiner boards and feed networks for microwave applications as well as basestation antennas and power amplifier boards for the wireless telecommunications infrastructure market.

NCR RFID Tagging Solutions

NCR's RFID tagging solution for supply chain compliance is developed for consumer and package goods manufacturers that need to comply with retailer mandates for marking at the case and pallet level. The NCR RFID offer provides close to 100% utility in finished tag product and Thermal Transfer ribbons that eliminate static as well as best-in-class hardware and supporting services.

Impinj STP™ Source Tagging Platform

The Impinj STP platform supports scalable, flexible, cost-effective, high-speed, and highly reliable source tagging solutions for items such as apparel, electronics, cosmetics, jewelry and pharmaceuticals.

Blue Vector Technology Solution

Blue Vector provides a common infrastructure for RFID that can be used throughout manufacturing, distribution, retail, transportation, and warehousing operations. Tight integration with ERP, WMS, and other systems insures that the locations of your assets and products are automatically reflected in your back end systems as rapidly as possible.

Ekahau T301-A Wi-Fi RFID Active Tag

Ekahau T301-A Wi-Fi tag is Ekahau’s third generation active Wi-Fi tag for asset and people tracking. With Ekahau RTLS the T301-A tag and the associated asset or person can be accurately located in real time using standard 802.11b/g infrastructure.

Confidex Survivor™ C1G2 UHF Hard Tag

The Confidex Survior™ C1G2 UHF hard tag is designed to server surveillance needs transportation of goods. Survivor offers the best performance-to-costs ratio and applicability in the market. Its unique features form a clever instruments for industrial and logistics applications from local to global operations.

Motorola MC3090-Z Handheld RFID Reader

The MC3090-Z is a business-class handheld RFID reader designed specifically to extend the benefits of RFID beyond industrial spaces and into customer-facing and business environments.

Wi-Fi Base Active RFID: PanGo Networks: PanGo Locator

Assets worth millions of dollars are constantly on the move in most large businesses and institutions, and tracking them is often a major challenge. From critical equipment to key personnel, quickly locating and effectively deploying or servicing important assets and resources is critical to success in organizations worldwide.

InfoLogix HealthTrax Asset Tracking Software

The HealthTrax system includes real-time location services (RTLS), long-range active RFID, telemetry and choke-point visibility all in a single integrated, cost-effective infrastructure.

RFID Anywhere

Simplify the development and deployment of RFID solutions with RFID Anywhere.

Omnitrol Networks: Intelligent RFID Edgeware: OMNITROL

The OMNITROL™ is the industry’s first next-generation all-in-one, service-oriented edge networking appliance. OMNITROL provides the market with the most powerful, flexible, and easiest means to integrate and use RFID. The all-in-one edge platform solution is designed to accelerate adoption by dramatically reducing the complexity and cost of RFID integration and management.

SAMSys RFID Pilot Express

Get off the ground with the Gen 2 RFID Pilot Express! Everything you need for DOD and retailer supply chain RFID compliance.

Freedom Shopping: RFID UHF Security System

Freedom Shopping’s RFID UHF Security System is a high powered RFID UHF reader system that delivers the ultimate protection and consumer privacy at the same time. The gates run on a light real-time operating system (RTOS) that delivers consistent and intelligent alarms compared with Linux OS when Gen 2 RFID identified items pass through the gates. And there are no false alarms due to employee oversight or hardware malfunction.