The system provides its guests with electronic access control, keyless hotel room entry and cashless purchasing. When hotel guests check-in, they are given a Smart Band RFID Wristband, which serves as their room key, credit card and water park entrance ticket for the duration of their stay. Day guests are also able to purchase water…
The apperance of RFID tags for clothing has vastly improved the speed of data collection, especially in the moving process. The features, like unique ID of information carrier and the fast info reading and store, determine that RFID tags for clothing are able to function more effectively in apparel industry. For better management, Huayuan Smart,…
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, Disney Research, and MIT have recently come up with new uses for off-the-shelf radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. They are able to develop a new technique and system for processing these RFID tags for practical applications in games, interactive objects and toys, and physical interfaces. The ‘RapID’ system the researchers developed…
Air Canada Cargo is moving forward with the implementation of a large-scale RFID solution that will enable tracking of cargo and mail shipments across additional stations in its network. Initial implementation and solution validation was took place last year, starting with Montreal and Frankfurt being the first 2 stations installed. Boston is now on-line, with…
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) might just be the next big thing in retail. RFID, an electronic device, small enough to remain undetected by the average consumer, can be discretely attached to an item and allows retailers to uniquely identify a product in the same manner as a barcode. The advantages and possibilities of RFID however,…
Container Centralen, CC, is Denmark and Netherland based pooling operator providing returnable transport item services for horticulture, retail and logistics. CC Container, CC’s container type for flower transportation, is the single standard method for transporting flowers and plants throughout Europe. 3.5 million CC Containers are used by more than 23 000 customers in their logistics…
Some European municipalities have begun to experiment with embedding radio frequency identification (RFID) tags into trash and recycling bins in an effort to boost recycling and reduce waste. Interest in these kinds of systems in the U.S. appears to be growing. “It has matured to the point where UHF (ultra-high frequency) has become a dominant…