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Tweet NXP RFID has announced that Canada’s South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority (TransLink) has adopted its MIFARE technology platform for Vancouver’s public transport system. Ranked among the world´s top 5 cities of Mercer´s Quality Living Ranking for four years, Vancouver is pursuing a Green City Plan to address urban challenges including the optimization of [...]
Tweet British Retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) is expanding its use of RFID technology to all clothing and home wares in its stores. RFID partners since 2003, Marks & Spencer and Avery Dennison have worked together for 9 years to create specific RFID tags that are fully integrated into a complete range of labels and [...]
Tweet The RFID tagging of apparel is now the largest and fastest growing application of RFID in retailing, the retail supply chain and associated industries. About 100 organizations are tagging apparel in trials and rollouts. Just two – taken together – will buy 500 million tags yearly. According to new IDTechEx analysis, the systems and [...]
Tweet For a hefty cost of $32,000, you may now build your own Scrabble board with RFID antenna on each and every tile on the game board. This comes with some dazzling lighting. Mind Sports International (MSI), built a custom RFID-enabled Scrabble board for an upcoming event in Prague. The idea was brought about to [...]
Tweet Toronto-based Danier Leather Inc. , Canada’s largest retailer of leather clothing and accessories, has selected Truecount Corporation to pilot Truecount’s RFID software in three of its retail locations. “Danier launched two stores in April and recently added an additional store,” says Zander Livingston, Truecount’s CEO. “The three stores will be used as pilots to [...]
Tweet Precision Dynamics Corporation (PDC) announced the successful implementation of its Smart Band® RFID Wristband System at the RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest in Ottawa, Canada from July 4 through July 15. The wristband system prevented counterfeiting and unauthorized resale, while empowering guests to link to Facebook, further promoting the event. The Bluesfest’s 300,000 guests wore [...]
Tweet Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. has introduced smart technology to coffee brewing in the office with the launch of its RFID enabled Keurig Vue brewing system. The single cup at a time brewing system can now deliver more hotter, bigger and stronger coffee with the use of automated preset selections that can be chosen [...]
Tweet (RFID World Canada) As the major sporting goods store in a busy ski and resort area, Mammoth Outdoor Sports (Mammoth) was challenged to accurately track the high volume of inventory flowing in and out of their retail stores. With three locations to operate, seasonal offsite locations, rapid seasonal merchandise turnovers, equipment rentals plus an [...]
Tweet The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Linen Technology Tracking, LLC the Notice of Allowance. The announcement was made just after Linen Technology Tracking, LLC introduced their revolutionary solution, Linentracker®, to the hotel industry. The company’s patent called The Method and System of Tracking Hotel Linen Products was originally filed on September [...]
Tweet (RFIDWorld.ca) FE Technologies has helped libraries devastated by the Christchurch earthquakes rebuild. This was evident at Christchurch City Library’s Papanui Library which reopened with the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology last October. Libraries and Information Unit Manager Carolyn Robertson said Papanui’s business has been up to 3 times as busy due to neighboring library closures. ”Without the RFID self [...]
