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Corporate Car Rental Program at Avis Upgraded with RFID

Corporate Car Rental Program at Avis Upgraded with RFID

(RFIDWorld.ca) To provide corporate clients with car rentals, Avis recently upgraded its system to the ‘Avis on Location’ to provide car rental services on-site. The upgrade allows corporate customers to rent and return vehicles on corporate campuses at virtually any location. The system is RFID-enabled and pilot tests have been conducted with many of Avis’ [...]

August 31 2011 | Posted in Retail RFID | Read More »

Fallsview Casino Resort Adopts High Frequency RFID Uniform Tracking System

Fallsview Casino Resort Adopts High Frequency RFID Uniform Tracking System

Provider of the GIMS™ Uniform, Linen and Laundry Systems, InvoTech Systems Inc. has signed a deal with Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagara Falls to provide it with their GIMS™ Uniform System equipped with UHF-RFID technology. The new uniform inventory tracking system is reported to provide a 24-hour automated uniform distribution service to over 3,500 staff [...]

August 30 2011 | Posted in Retail RFID | Read More »

Bibliotheca ITG, Selected by Pickaway County District Public Library

Bibliotheca ITG, Selected by Pickaway County District Public Library

(RFIDWorld.ca) Pickaway County District Public Library has chosen Bibliotheca ITG, to provide RFID and Automated Materials Handling (AMH) solutions for its newly redesigned library facility. Bibliotheca ITG, is a developer and supplier for flow automation and self-serve technologies. The library recently completed construction of teen center, computer lab, meeting rooms and a larger children`s area [...]

August 23 2011 | Posted in Government RFID | Read More »

Lamb Traceability Project Gives Alberta Lamb Producers Access to Rich Information

Lamb Traceability Project Gives Alberta Lamb Producers Access to Rich Information

Alberta lamb producers are smiling after they have been told about a project that will reveal information helping them to raise profit and efficiency. A Lamb Traceability Project has researched information that could be very valuable to lamb producers in Alberta. A flock-management system which uses radio-frequency identification technology could potentially help producers to increase [...]

August 19 2011 | Posted in Agriculture RFID, RFID News | Read More »

HID’s Green Card Wins the ACT Canada “International Innovation Award”

HID’s Green Card Wins the ACT Canada “International Innovation Award”

(RFID World Canada) HID Global, the company which makes U.S. Permanent Resident “Green Cards” recently announced that the ACT Canada “International Innovation Award” was granted to them. HID Global is known for the solutions it innovates to deliver secure identity. The Green Card was made under it’s LaserCard brand and the Green Card in specific [...]

August 18 2011 | Posted in RFID Industry | Read More »

RFID Integrated with Recycling Leaves More Money in Hunterdon County

RFID Integrated with Recycling Leaves More Money in Hunterdon County

Rariton Valley Disposal in New Jersey is partnering up with Recyclebank to promote environmentally friendly incentives. Over 7,600 customers have access to RFID run carts and recycling rewards. These incentives have been put into place to promote and make routine actions that are friendly to the environment. With customers that get pickups from Recyclebank, an [...]

August 14 2011 | Posted in Green RFID, RFID News | Read More »

High-tech Eartags for Alberta Livestock to Provide Greater Readability

High-tech Eartags for Alberta Livestock to Provide Greater Readability

High-tech eartags for livestock are one step closer to becoming a reality in Alberta. The Ultra High Frequency (UHF) tags will be able to track animals through all stages of beef processing, starting from the producers field, to the auction markets, feedlots, and all the way through to the processors. The trial test is being [...]

August 6 2011 | Posted in Agriculture RFID | Read More »

Work Compliance Regulated by RFID Technology

Work Compliance Regulated by RFID Technology

RFID technology is growing and moreso now with recent developments that have put RFID technology to use in more unique ways. RFID has been used to track linens in hotels, livestock on farms and now it has even been tested on employees in the workplace to track their daily, minute-to-minute movement. An experiment was recently [...]

August 2 2011 | Posted in RFID Technology | Read More »