RFID Today. http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/blogs/rfidtoday/index.xml For all the latest RFID developments en-gb Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:49:10 GMT Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:49:10 GMT rlewis@adacom.co.uk csanchez@adacom.co.uk RFID Today. http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/images/RFID_today_100.gif http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/blogs/rfidtoday/index.xml Thales Research and Technology (UK) TRT has brought to my notice another part of their recent development in RFID logistics applications http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/blogs/rfidtoday/index.php?id=P154 TRT are working with a number of companies on secure communications that includes a unique system for asset tracking, environmental monitoring and security particularly useful in the logistics industry in protecting containers MedicAlert Foundation has given up RFID. http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/blogs/rfidtoday/index.php?id=P153 It really is a pity that MedicAlert has moved away from their RFID tag that was developed with Siemens back in 2005. I am sue that had this survived then it could well have formed a pilot for our own NHS service. Thales identifies people in buildings on a 3D model. http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/blogs/rfidtoday/index.php?id=P152 Thales Research’s (TRT) Reading based UK subsidiary has developed a revolutionary precise indoor positioning system. Under the direction of John Howard TRT is part of the large multi- national group whose turnover exceeds 2 Bn Euros of which some 19% is spent on research. TRT employs 116 people in the UK. Skillweb exhibits at the Halifax AIDC opening http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/blogs/rfidtoday/index.php?id=P151 Skillweb, provider of innovative mobile computer solutions for parcel logistics and supply chain operations demonstrated its RFID solution deployed into the Co operative Group at the high profile opening of the AIDC Centre in Halifax There is now another RFID centre nearer to you http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/blogs/rfidtoday/index.php?id=P150 The European Centre for Excellence for AIDC (Automatic identification and data capture), at Halifax was opened by Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State for Competitiveness, and MP for East Ham, London, on Monday 19 November. Mario Cardullo at last honoured in the US http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/blogs/rfidtoday/index.php?id=P149 Mario Cardullo has at last been honoured by George Washington University for his RFID development of tags and systems. Mario has been installed into their Hall of Fame. US Air Force streamlines its global logistics http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/blogs/rfidtoday/index.php?id=P148 I have today received clear non- techie information that Zebra Technologies one of the worlds largest tag printer/encoder manufacturers, has begun shipments to the US Air Force for its Cargo Movement Operation System (CMOS) operating at more than 214 locations worldwide. Passive UHF RFID in Practice- a book for those considering a UHF project. http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/blogs/rfidtoday/index.php?id=P147 In the past few days I received a copy of a book written by Daniel M Dobkin entitled “The RF in RFID” The book that I found very readable and coherent is published by Newnes from an imprint of Elsevier of Burlington MA, and looks at the factors to be considered in a UHF project. RFID and the impact on health http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/blogs/rfidtoday/index.php?id=P146 Looking back at my last entry when I raised the possible problems of Electromagnetic interference caused by RFID perhaps we should consider other uses of the technology and its impact RFID is increasingly being used in warehouses and schools. The question is whether RFID is safe in hospitals? http://www.appdevadvisor.co.uk/blogs/rfidtoday/index.php?id=P145 Over the past few years research has been undertaken by the Japanese Ministry of Public Health and by various other bodies such as the Georgia Test Research Institute on behalf of the US Army into whether electromagnetic interference occurs with medical devices.