As radio frequency identification technologies gain acceptance worldwide, many companies are realizing they want to go beyond just identifying an object or location—they want to know about conditions.

UC San Diego has developed a system that uses analog sensors with a direct interface to RFID tags, making them passive sensor devices. The solution includes analog to digital conversion without ...

“We wondered whether we could repurpose RFID tags to do battery-free sensing and tracking,” says Nagarjun Bhat, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering and lead author of a new study. Data is power.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Though Wal-Mart Stores is better known for its radio frequency identification program with its top 100 suppliers in the Dallas market, it is quietly moving ahead with a limited test ...

Walmart and Avery Dennison have jointly developed a new radio-frequency identification (RFID) sensor technology designed for use in high-moisture, low-temperature environments, including meat, bakery ...

IBM on Tuesday introduced middleware that can gather data from a wide variety of networked sensors, analyze it, and feed it into other enterprise applications that can also use the data to make ...

Today’s medication supply chain relies heavily on barcodes for tracking and authentication, and these are applied not only at the unit of sale — such as a box of medications — but also at the ...