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July 17, 2008 | featured news
Vail Picks New Line With UHF RFID-Powered Passes
Montreal RFID-enabled Bike Plan Picks up Speed
Banking Group to Set RFID Roadmap
U.S. Defense Department to Host Conference Track
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Cleaning Up With RFID
InterfaceFlor is embedding RFID tags in its carpet tiles to make them easy and cost-efficient to maintain—and to corner the commercial flooring market.
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Big RFID Deals and Their Meaning | By Mark Roberti
Do Impinj's purchase of Intel's RFID reader chip business, and Checkpoint's acquisition of OATSystems, indicate we're about to see a wave of consolidation within the RFID industry?
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Dutch RFID Interference Study Is a Worst-Case
Test | By Martin Payne

A recent study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association is not in line with the reality of most current hospital RFID deployments.
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RFID Usage in the Patient-Care Environment
This study, authored by Barbara Christe, Elaine Cooney, Gregg Maggioli, Dustin Doty, Robert Frye and Jason Short, examines the effects of two common passive RFID antennas—near-field and far-field—and five general types of patient-care equipment in real-use scenarios. Data was collected regarding the function of the equipment within the antennas' RF fields, in situations resembling common use.
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Two Ways to Think About RFID
RFID can be deployed as a point solution that solves specific problems, or as infrastructure. Determining the ROI on RFID when deployed as infrastructure is difficult, because the upfront cost is high, and no one application delivers enough benefit to cover it. Determining the ROI on RFID when used as a point solution is easier. RFID Journal editor Mark Roberti explores various methods for deploying RFID, explaining why the long-term benefits are far greater when using RFID as infrastructure.
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"Our assumption, rightly so, is that there certainly should not be an antenna within a foot of a medical device. That is not good practice; that is not how you should design a system."
—Barbara Christe, an associate professor who led a recent study showing no electromagnetic interference from RFID with medical devices, refuting a prior study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association
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Vail Picks New Line With UHF RFID-Powered Passes
The resort operator estimates it will issue RFID-enabled season passes for the 2008-2009 winter season, and deploy readers at its five ski areas.
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Montreal RFID-enabled Bike Plan Picks up Speed
The city provides an update on its plan to roll out RFID-enabled bicycles that commuters can use for short trips from transit stations to an office or store.
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Banking Group to Set RFID Roadmap
Hoping to facilitate RFID adoption by its members, the Financial Services Technology Consortium is working toward instituting a standardized approach to using the technology.
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U.S. Defense Department to Host Conference
Track at EPC Connection 2008

New sessions at EPCglobal NA's fifth annual event, being held Oct. 14-16 in Chicago, will highlight the DOD's successful EPC projects and help educate its suppliers about the benefits of using EPC RFID technologies.
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RFID News Roundup
Xerox picks RFID-enabled system to monitor fleet; study shows growth opportunity for RFID in Africa; Rhode Island governor nixes ban on RFID devices; Reva announces upgraded TAP appliance; Sokymat intros new UHF RFID tags for waste, warehouse management; Feig announces new UHF multiplexer, handheld HF/UHF reader.
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