RFID Scanlines contains short pieces of news, analysis and opinions on RFID. Some of this will not be completely thought out but instead I hope you will add value to my off-the-wall thoughts. It won't always be regular but please feel free to contribute to the debate. May the ping be with you!
Singularity announced the release of LiveAgility, their SaaS BPMS
offering, on January 21st 2010. Like all SaaS offerings this
means users can cost the purchase of software on an OPEX rather
CAPEX basis.
Based on what Singularity...
MAINtag SAS and Tego, Inc announced on January 12th 2010, that
the companies' jointly-developed FLYtag products will be used in
a pioneering effort to tag thousands of aircraft parts across the
Airbus A350 XWB fleet.
MAINtag were...
IBM announced at the beginning of this week an update to their RFID middleware products. The capability of collecting information from RFID devices has been extended to cover any type of sensor. Sensors are part of our everyday lives, used in...
AIM-listed Innovision Research & Technology has announced that it has secured funding of nearly $9 million (£5.4 million) from existing and new institutional investors to take advantage of its position in the growing Near Field Communication...
As part of the preparation for St. Patricks Day, Guinness has laid out its vision for the pub of the future.
Their innovation team worked with Ben Hourahine, a futurist, to provide a view of what a local would look like in 250 year's time....
Did you know that worldwide mobile phones outnumber the number of credit cards in circulation by a factor of 2 to 1?
It is therefore no wonder that, based on the work spearheaded by Nokia among others, a form of RIFD called Near Field...
From last Monday, March 2nd 2009, Barclays customers getting new or replacement Visa debit cards will receive ones containing RFID technology. This contactless technology will allow them to use the debit card for transactions of up to £10,...
Simon Holloway, Bloor Research | 11th February '09
Some of you may have read the interview I did in October 2007 with Paul Chartier of Convergent Software (RFID Standards) and then an article on a demonstrator for baggage handling applications in February 2008 (Bagging Handling Applications get an...
Simon Holloway, Bloor Research | 10th February '09
February 2nd 2009 saw Savvion announce their financial results for 2008. The company was profitable every quarter in 2008. They listed their key success factors as:
42 major BPM license transactions, 19 of which were repeat customers
23...
On January 26th, 2009, GS1 UK released preliminary results of a pilot project (BRIDGE - Building Radio frequency IDentification solutions for the Global Environment) that used RFID, bar codes, the EPCIS data exchange system and a variety of...
Dana Gardner Principal Analyst Interarbor Solutions
