SAN FRANCISCO — Researchers from the European Holst Center said their 64-bit, inductively-coupled, passive RFID tag achieved a record 780-bit/second data readout. In a presentation at the ...

Researchers have successfully printed flexible RFID tags directly onto paper. Investigators from South Korea’s Sunchon National University and Rice University in Houston predicted the new process ...

The use of RFID technology in the healthcare arena holds enormous promise. It could lead to greater accuracy and efficiency in treating patients by making medical information immediately accessible to ...

There are various types of RFID systems, each of which can store a different amount of data, which affects the amount of time required to read a tag. But since you mentioned bar codes, I will assume ...

Consumers benefit from having guidelines that promote the protection of their data captured by radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, but may be burdened by additional costs to exercise greater ...

In 1974, two Drexel University students found that an oscillating mirror laser could scan and read barcodes, their solution for more efficient grocery store management. Quick-response codes, or QR ...

After barcodes were put into use more than 50 years ago, the technology revolutionized the grocery business. The technology also revolutionized nearly everything else in the supply chain and logistics ...

With further adoption of GS1 standards, RFID tags will support greater interoperability, efficiency and safety for each ...

As far as wireless technologies go, radio-frequency identification (RFID) is one of the oldest. Patented in 1983 by the late British inventor Charles Walton, RFID made it possible for new, ...