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According to scdigest.com, it is coming up on six years since Wal-Mart first announced its intention to roll out an RFID tagging program with suppliers. SCDigest took a look back, and came out with an excellent historical timeline of major announcements and events associated with Walmart RFID rollout. For a graphical view of this timeline, [...]
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Confidex has launched a new version of Steelwave Micro this week, called Confidex SteelBIT. SteelBIT is designed for RFID IT asset tracking applications. In January 2009, Banking industry’s consortium FSTC (Financial Services Technology Consortium) launched their RFID tagging requirements for data centers, which include tag performance criteria, AND also requirements on how the tags should [...]
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EPCglobal was formed in October, 2003 as the successor organization to the MIT AutoID Center, the original creator of the EPC ( Electronic Product Code ). EPCglobal is formed under the umbrella of GS1 ( formerly known as EAN UCC ). I could still recall the historical moment where AutoID was dissolved and EPCglobal was formed, that was [...]
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