Finnish Railways, VR Group, is the single rail transport and logistics provider in Finland. VR Group, together with its subsidiary VR Transpoint, logistics services provider, have implemented RFID system for improving the earlier manual processes, lack of inventory visibility and for creating opportunities for new business applications. The need for passenger and freight wagon and…
Impinj, a leading provider of RAIN RFID solutions, today announced enhancements to its ItemSense software to ease the deployment, management and monitoring of RAIN RFID solutions. It also unveiled the Monza 4i tag chip, targeted at automotive applications. “By using the Impinj Platform, you gain the Impinj advantage – high performing products and features to…
Food can be a complicated subject. On the one hand, it can keep you healthy and strong when it’s fresh, but let it sit for too long, or in the wrong conditions, and it can become poison. The need to feed the growing world population has led to remarkable innovations, with higher crop yields and the…
Customers of Wells Fargo Bank across the US will soon be able to make NFC-based mobile payments and ATM withdrawals with a tap of their phone using the Wells Fargo Wallet, a mobile payment service expected to launch “later this summer”. “Wells Fargo Wallet is integrated into the existing Wells Fargo mobile app experience for…
We are all familiar with RFID Wristbands being used to identify visitors at any type of event or attraction. Wearing one of these bands will signify that you have entered the site legally and are not attempting to avoid an entrance fee. Built in security features also prevent the bands from being transferred and illegally…
A team of researchers from Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University has discovered a way to process RFID tag signals with enough speed to make them suitable for use in games, physical interfaces and other interactive objects. The technique makes it possible to use RFID tags to sense movement or touch in near real-time. The…
Visa Europe is using the Eurovision Song Contest to launch a global collection of limited contactless wristbands that can be used to purchase goods. The wearables use near field communication (NFC) technology and are being introduced in Stockholm, Sweden, where the contest is being hosted this week after M?ns Zelmerl?w’s victory last year in Austria…