Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags have made paying toll fees and public transit fares a breeze. But the tags, which are made of silicon, are still too expensive to replace ubiquitous barcodes ...

In today’s fast-paced healthcare environment, hospitals face numerous challenges, such as ensuring patient safety, streamlining workflows, and reducing costs. One solution showing immense promise in ...

Symbol Technologies CEO William Nuti is good at pulling out the weeds in corporate restructuring. And this he did when he moved up the ladder last year from his chief operating officer position to ...

The EH&S chemical inventory group is pleased to announce that we will begin using new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) barcode stickers to manage chemical inventory. The new barcode stickers will ...

Barcodes, those familiar sets of lines on items from DVDs to refrigerators, eventually may go the way of the typewriter, the black-and-white television and the dodo. Radio Frequency Identification ...

The conclusion reached in this article – part of a series sponsored by UPS – is that barcodes probably make more sense for small businesses because they’re considerably cheaper, but RFID does offer ...

Eurekalert- Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are an essential component of modern shopping, logistics, warehouse, and stock control for toll roads, casino chips and much more. They provide a ...

Vendors report that the situation has changed now that the dust has settled. These two technologies work together more often than they compete. An example is logistics. In these operations, barcodes ...

A new white paper by Dr. Peter Green examines the tradeoffs between using barcode and RFID scanning for tracking work-in-process in manufacturing plants For efficient tracking of work-in-process you ...

Thin as paper and no larger than a postage stamp, a prototype low-cost RFID tag from Philips Research (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) is based entirely on plastic electronics and promises to replace ...