Sunnyvale startup Wirama announced that they've finished the most precise RFID reader available yet, with the ability to locate passive RFID tags to within 6 inches (through the EPC Class 1 Gen 2 ...

Want to know the temperature of machine parts before they overheat and cause damage? Monitor water-intolerant assets without opening the container to check each one? Detect strain in concrete? Save ...

In the previous article, “The principles of RFID: Active Tags,” we discussed a classification of RFID tag called the active tag. Even though the active tag has many applications, it does not get as ...

Sensor-based passive RFID tags have been on the market for just a few years, but according to U.K.-based market-research firm IDTechEx, they have accomplished sufficient growth in niche markets that ...

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Market research and events firm IDTechEx find that the passive RFID tag market is now seeing tremendous volume growth – more than five years later than the industry had expected. Most of the growth is ...

Active RFID -- No governing standards, being developed -- Transmit energy often in 400 MHz, 900 MHz and 2.45 GHz ranges -- Requires onboard power source with large memory -- Can be read, or written to ...

Technology has matured to commercial availability, data standards are close to approval, and by year’s end Airbus and Boeing could be instructing suppliers to put radio-frequency identification (RFID) ...

The U.S. Army will begin the Defense Department’s first test of passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in February, using the same kinds of technology and electronic product code (EPC) ...

RFID tags provide the automotive industry with assembly tracking tools, thus bringing vehicle assembly into the IoT world. Radio-frequency identification tags (RFID) have become an essential method of ...

Applications of radio-frequency identification (RFID) are widespread in today's well-connected society. Found in nearly every market including government, transportation, food, health care, retail, ...