Handheld Barcode Scanner for Laboratory Applications

Ziath has launched a new 2D handheld barcode scanner, specifically developed for laboratory applications. The handheld barcode scanner includes the following features: Allows wired and wireless communications. A smart and fully portable two-dimensional (2D) barcode reader for single tubes. Operating modes can be chosen from the main screen icons. Data can be uploaded to or downloaded from a host computer. Can be customized for laboratory applications. Cryoprotection is offered as standard and rovides full-day operation and does not require battery recharge.

RFID Tags Enhance Museum Experiences and Back-End Support

Here is your mission, should you choose to accept it: Create a museumgoer’s experience that is interactive, meaningful and memorable. That’s what the International Spy Museum set out to do when it opened a new, 140,000-square-foot facility at L’Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C., last May. It did so, in part, by leveraging devices embedded with radio-frequency ID tags that can track visitors’ movements as they wander through the museum. A number of museums around the world are using RFID technology to create interactive exhibits that sometimes make a greater impression on guests than even the rarest of artifacts.

Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK Adds Support for Seven Barcode Types

Dynamsoft announced its Barcode Reader software development kit, version 7.2, now supports seven additional barcode symbols and that other performance improvements were made to the SDK. These updates cover SDKs for Windows, Linux, Android and iOS platforms.

The newly added barcode types are widely used in various industries. The GS1 Databar (omnidirectional, truncated, stacked, stacked omnidirectional, limited, expanded, expanded stacked) is commonly found in grocery stores on produce labels. The PatchCode is commonly used to categorize documents during batch scanning. Maxicode (mode 2-5), developed by UPS, is used to manage and track package shipments. Micro PDF417 is a smaller variant of the PDF417 used in transport, ID cards, and inventory management. Similarly, the Micro QR is a small variant of the QR code commonly used with smartphones. Finally, the GS1 Composite (combination of OneD and PDF417/Micro PDF 417) is commonly used in grocery stores.

The new symbol support is in addition to other updates that include improving the decoding speed for PDF417 and improving decoding capabilities for QR and Data Matrix bar codes that have cylinder-like deformations. The company had also recently announced Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK 7.2 is now capable of supporting Direct Part Marking (DPM) barcodes. This is ideal for customers in aerospace, automotive, electronic manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications and other industries in need of tracking parts through their full life cycle.

Gautrain to let passengers use contactless bank cards to pay for trains, buses and car parking

Gautrain, the commuter rail service that connects the South African cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria, is to let passengers use their contactless bank cards to pay for their journeys by tapping on and off the service from 31 October. Commuters will also be able to use their bank card to tap in and out of car parking facilities as well as on Gautrain bus services, the company says. “To ensure the security and privacy of your bank card, Gautrain does not store bank card numbers,” it explains.

USDA hits the pause button on RFID traceability for cattle

USDA has “paused” its efforts to move toward RFID technology as the acceptable form of animal identification for its Animal Disease Traceability program. Friday, October 25, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) removed a fact sheet on the issue from its website. Last April, APHIS posted a factsheet to provide producers with information about the Agency’s guidelines and goals related to Animal Disease Traceability. Since the Factsheet was posted, APHIS has listened to the livestock industry’s feedback. In light of these comments and current Executive Branch policy, APHIS believes that we should revisit those guidelines. APHIS has removed the Factsheet from its Web site, as it is no longer representative of current agency policy.

RFID Company's Acquisition Combines BLE With UHF for Assisted Living, Hospitals

Internet of Things (IoT) technology company Quake Global has acquired Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) health-care technology firm Skynet to provide an active Bluetooth Mesh solution, in conjunction with its passive RFID system, for the health-care and assisted-living markets. The acquisition means customers can take advantage of both passive and active location systems, Quake Global reports, by using integrated dual BLE and UHF RFID tags and a single software platform. The benefit, according to the company, will be that passive RFID can be used on lower-cost items like consumables or long-lived equipment for scenarios in which battery changes on tags would be inconvenient.

Montreal Alouettes Increase Fan Engagement With RFID Payment Solution

The Montreal Alouettes are currently in the fourth year of a partnership with Connect&GO: a Montreal based company specializing in Radio-frequency identification (RFID) solutions. Specifically, Connect&GO’s FastPass has been a part of the package for season ticket holders the last several seasons. Season ticket holders receive a card attached to a lanyard that allows them to get into the stadium faster via an express lane as well as skip certain concessions lines. The lanyard also enables fans to preload it with money or link it to their credit card, enabling cashless payment. Paying with the FastPass also gets season ticket holders a discount on select items.

Brother Mobile Solutions Introduces 4-inch Thermal Transfer Printers For Wide Range of Industrial Applications

Brother Mobile Solutions, Inc. announces the newest addition to its groundbreaking suite of products for industrial labeling applications. The new TD-4 Desktop Thermal Transfer Printer Series provides clearly readable, long lasting labels needed to address the challenges of identifying and tracking items in a warehouse and across every step of the manufacturing process.

The newest addition to our suite of products for industrial labeling applications is now available!. The TD-4 Desktop Thermal Transfer Printer Series - a solution that can handle nearly every labeling application needed in industrial environments.

Auto ID labeling plays a more important role than ever across today’s manufacturing supply chain. Thermal transfer labels are used on the factory floor for tagging sourced components when they arrive at the plant, to parts areas where shelves, bin boxes and tool cribs must be labeled to ensure speedy pick operations or for tools and asset management. During production, barcode label systems identify and track items as they move through a facility or assembly line. And in the warehouse, they are used to mark racks, shelves, bins and to identify finished goods for fast, accurate routing and traceability as they are packaged or shipped for delivery across the supply chain.

Accusoft Releases Barcode Xpress .NET Core

Accusoft announced its latest development environment, .NET Core, for Barcode Xpress. Accusoft's Barcode Xpress offers support for 1D and 2D barcodes, recognition of over 30 barcode types, support for damaged and broken barcodes, and more.

"Many developers are looking to use .NET Core in place of .NET for barcoding solutions. .NET Core is an Open Source and multi-platform development environment," said Tom Setzer, Product Manager, SDKs, at Accusoft. ".NET Core is much better suited to allow customers to build microservice architectures that can be deployed on Linux within Cloud Computing Services such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform."

In addition to offering the leading technology for reading damaged, broken, and incorrect barcodes, Barcode Xpress offers a robust set of barcode solutions for a variety of industries. With its ability to scan multiple barcodes on one image in milliseconds, the toolkit reads up to 1,000 pages per minute.

Moscow Metro adds support for China UnionPay open loop cards

Travellers in Russia’s capital can now use China UnionPay’s Quickpass contactless cards or an NFC payment app connected to a Quickpass card to pay their fares at 150 Moscow Metro stations, China’s Xinhua news agency reports. “This is the first time that contactless payment using China UnionPay cards has been applied to foreign subways,” the report adds.

TruTag raises $7.5 million Series C for tiny, edible barcodes

TruTag Technologies, a company that creates microscopic, edible barcodes to authenticate medications, food, vaping pods and other products, has raised a $7.5 million Series C. The funding, led by Pangaea Ventures and Happiness Capital, will be used to further commercialize its technology and develop new solutions. Along with earlier rounds, this brings TruTag’s total funding to $25 million. Its clients include PwC, which uses the company’s technology in its Food Trust Platform quality assurance program for Australian beef exports.

SBI launches contactless mobile payment facility for credit card holders

The SBI Card launched 'SBI Card Pay', a payment feature based on Host Card Emulation (HCE) technology for faster, convenient and more secure card payments using mobile phones. "SBI Card Pay is aimed at redefining the payments experience for our customers. Using cutting-edge technologies such as HCE. We want to provide seamless yet swift payments at a speed that matches dynamic lifestyle of today's consumers. We believe that contactless payments are playing a key role in country's digital payments drive and as the supporting infrastructure increases countrywide, adoption is bound to accelerate significantly," said Hardayal Prasad, MD & CEO, SBI Card.

RFID wallets that don’t skimp on style

The acronym RFID refers to radio-frequency identification, the use of electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track digital data. Think of an RFID tag as an intelligent bar code that doesn’t announce itself with a large block of black lines. It makes using credit cards easier but could also, potentially, leave your data exposed even when your cards are stashed in your wallet. The idea that RFID data could be vulnerable at all times has given rise to an array of “RFID-blocking” devices and, yes, even wallets. And they combine style and security—for men or women—while still giving you digital peace of mind.

EECC Study Expands Structure to Test IoT-based RFID Tags

Throughout the past decade, RFID tags and the applications for which they are used have been diversifying and growing more complex. In response to the expanding number of specialized UHF RFID tag products and the uses cases for them, the European EPC Competence Center (EECC) has released a four-part survey aimed at testing all facets of functionality for tags that can feature high or low memory, as well as sensor functionality; offer higher sensitivity of predecessor tags; and, in the case of one line of products, be recyclable. The result is a 650-page study containing more than 2,000 diagrams isolating a variety of conditions and performance for 451 different tags. EECC has offered its annual survey for more than a decade.

Vizinex RFID, Barcodes, Inc.Deliver Custom RFID Solution

Vizinex RFID released a case study outlining its work with Barcodes Inc., provider of barcode, mobile computing and RFID solutions. The case study details how an electrical contractor working on a project for a state Department of Transportation reached out to Barcodes Inc. looking for a solution to an RFID requirement called out in the project’s contract.

The requirement was for the electrical conduits enclosing the cabling on a new bridge had to be labeled with a very specific marking, and the label had to include an RFID tag that would read at 30 feet with a handheld reader.

Cisco, Sewio Team Up Regarding Ultra-Wideband Access Points

Real-time location system (RTLS) technology company Sewio is partnering with global networking technology company Cisco Systems in the Czech Republic to build its ultra-wideband (UWB) receiver module into Cisco access points, thereby enabling precise localization of tagged items or individuals in industrial, automotive and other spaces, without the need for an additional RTLS anchor installation. The two companies announced the plan at Sewio Summit, Sewio's second annual summit for UWB industry members, which was held in the Czech statutory city of České Budějovice.

EU Antitrust Officials Are Looking Into Apple Pay, iPhone NFC Chips

Officials across the European Union have already made their thoughts on Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project clear. Now those concerns have extended to Apple Pay, with EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager’s office probing whether the company’s pre-installed mobile payments software is playing dirty with the competition, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. European Commission officials asked mobile-payments providers, banks, and app developers in September “about how Apple Inc. devices may favor Apple Pay over other payment solutions,” Bloomberg wrote, citing MLex. In an email statement to Bloomberg, regulators confirmed the office was monitoring “possible anti-competitive market practices and abusive conduct” without naming Apple.

Samsung and Mobeewave to launch NFC-enabled mobile POS solution

Samsung Electronics, in partnership with contactless mobile card payment firm Mobeewave, have launched an NFC-enabled contactless payment acceptance solution on mobile devices. The two companies will deploy the point-of-sale service, dubbed Samsung POS, on Tuesday in Canada. They also have plans to expand the solution globally in 2020. Samsung POS, which is aimed at making mobile payments more accessible for merchants, will allow consumers to make debit and credit payments by tapping their contactless cards, Samsung Pay, Apple Pay, or Google Pay wallets onto Samsung NFC-enabled devices without additional hardware such as cables.

Confidex, PT Electrodata Provide RFID Tag Solution for Gojek Multiservice Startup

In less than a decade, the Indonesia-based Gojek, a multi-service platform and digital payment technology startup, said it has grown into a $10 billion enterprise with more than 2 million motorcycle taxis and couriers in several Southeast Asian countries. To keep track of the inventory and distribution of its drivers' helmets and jackets, Confidex provided Gojek with an RFID tag. Gojek Super App provides access to some 20 different services, many of which involve delivering people, goods or food.

Printronix announces new 'ODV-2D' Barcode Printer

The ODV-2D is the only product available that can verify and validate barcodes as they are printed. For added accuracy, data printed on the label is validated to match the data sent from the host and the barcode image is verified based on ISO standards. This is the only integrated solution on the marketing that prints, verifies AND validates barcodes. This upgrade comes standard with the new release and can be added, at no cost, to existing ODV-2D printers.

IoT devices could be asbestos of the future

The rise of connected devices doesn't look to be slowing down any time soon and while there are currently around 7bn IoT devices worldwide, experts estimate that this number could be as high as 40bn by 2025. However, this rapid increase in IoT devices has some worried and cybersecurity expert and chief research officer at F-Secure Mikko Hyppönen explained in an interview on GlobalData's Verdict website that he believes that the proliferation of “stupid” internet connected smart devices could end up being the “IT asbestos of the future”. When it was first developed, asbestos was a great innovation that looked like a miracle material. It was widely used in construction during the 1960s and 1970s but only later did we learn that it caused cancer.

Apple Card user claims to be victim of fraud despite never using titanium card

Last week we heard from a reader who experienced a fraudulent charge coming from a clone of his Apple Card. It was a good reminder that even with its security focus and lack of printed numbers, the physical Apple Card is just as susceptible to skimming and cloning as any other credit or debit card. Now we’ve heard from another reader who just had a fraud issue with Apple Card, but more surprising and concerning, he says he’s never used the physical titanium Apple Card. Could there be a bigger security issue for Apple Card than skimming?

Barcode database errors could see wrong medicines dispensed to patients

The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee has published a list of drugs affected by a discrepancy between barcodes on medicine packs and an NHS database, with a total of 128 packs from 25 manufacturers affected by the discrepancy. Pharmacists have been asked to remain vigilant when dispensing certain packs of medicines after a discrepancy was found between barcodes on the packs and corresponding data stored in an NHS Business Services Authority (BSA) database.

Smartrac Launches Circus PRO Label for Secure NFC Interactions

Smartrac has released its new Circus PRO and Circus PRO Flex Near Field Communication (NFC) tags that enable a secure and private transaction between a tag and a reader, while enabling users to create a one-to-one interaction with a brand or other parties to track a tagged item's history. The new PRO version of the Circus tag, Smartrac explains, enables users to access data via an encrypted NFC connection by tapping their mobile phone against the tag. A private or public record of their data related to that tagged item is then created.

Raiffeisen Bank selects Antelop for Android-based NFC payments

Raiffeisen Bank has collaborated with France-based Antelop Solutions and has announced the launch of an Android NFC mobile payments service, RaiPay NFC payments service,  in Romania and the Czech Republic using the French supplier’s digital payments and tokenization platform. The bank has stated that it aims to expand the mobile payments solution in a bid to include Antelop’s Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) solution.

“RaiPay is a new type of lifestyle banking and payment app, where NFC is the first key element. Our strategy is to launch our own digital payment service in Europe, with the aim of completely reinventing the way we interact with our customers. We chose to partner with Antelop as they demonstrated unique technical expertise in digital payments and tokenization,” said Tomas Janitor, head of business and innovation at Raiffeisen Processing Center (RPC).

EMT to pilot blockchain and face recognition ticketing in Madrid

Madrid public transportation operator EMT has announced plans to run two next-generation transportation payments pilots. The first is a blockchain-based mobility-as-a-service platform while the second involves a six month pilot of face recognition based ticketing on the city’s buses. For the blockchain project, the goal is to create a single mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) platform that can be used across the Spanish capital’s bicycle rental, car sharing, electric vehicle charging, motorcycle rental, scooter hire, subway, bus and taxi services.

Japanese merchants report sharp increase in mobile transactions

The introduction of the Japanese government’s Cashless Japan initiative, which provides consumers with cashback incentives when they use a card or mobile phone to make a purchase, has led to a significant upswing in mobile payments adoption, according to reports from a number of merchants and mobile payments providers. Launched on 1 October, Cashless Japan lets consumers avoid a new increase in sales tax from 8% to 10% by selecting a non-cash payment method when they check out at any of some 500,000 merchants around the country.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology market worldwide is projected to grow by US$26.2 Billion

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology market worldwide is projected to grow by US$26.2 Billion, driven by a compounded growth of 15.6%. Tags, one of the segments analyzed and sized in this study, displays the potential to grow at over 17.5%. The shifting dynamics supporting this growth makes it critical for businesses in this space to keep abreast of the changing pulse of the market. Poised to reach over US$21 Billion by the year 2025, Tags will bring in healthy gains adding significant momentum to global growth.

Representing the developed world, the United States will maintain a 13.8% growth momentum. Within Europe, which continues to remain an important element in the world economy, Germany will add over US$1 Billion to the region’s size and clout in the next 5 to 6 years.

Over US$829.1 Million worth of projected demand in the region will come from Rest of Europe markets. In Japan, Tags will reach a market size of US$985.2 Million by the close of the analysis period. As the world’s second largest economy and the new game changer in global markets, China exhibits the potential to grow at 20.2% over the next couple of years and add approximately US$6.6 Billion in terms of addressable opportunity for the picking by aspiring businesses and their astute leaders. Presented in visually rich graphics are these and many more need-to-know quantitative data important in ensuring quality of strategy decisions, be it entry into new markets or allocation of resources within a portfolio.

Several macroeconomic factors and internal market forces will shape growth and development of demand patterns in emerging countries in Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East. All research viewpoints presented are based on validated engagements from influencers in the market, whose opinions supersede all other research methodologies.

SML RFID Opens Retail Ideation Space in China

SML Group, a provider of item-level RFID solutions, has announced the launch of its second Retail Ideation Space (RIS) in Shanghai, China. At an opening ceremony for the new facility, SML's global executives will join together at the Shanghai RIS to showcase item-level RFID technologies and applications to Jinshan Government leaders, business partners and retail end users. SML will also launch its RFID TotalCare solution brand to the Chinese market.

R-CALF Suit Seeks To Stop Mandatory RFID

R-CALF USA has filed suit to prevent USDA’s Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) from implementing a plan to mandate the use of RFID tags. The lawsuit, filed Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, in federal district court in Casper, Wyo., seeks to halt the government’s efforts to eliminate all animal ID options other than radio frequency identification devices and premises registration for adult cattle and bison moving interstate.

Xiaomi Mi Band 5 to come with NFC support outside China

The Xiaomi Mi Band 4, launched in China back in June, comes with NFC and а microphone. However, its global variant called Mi Smart Band 4 doesn't have either of those features. In a new development, if the latest report is to be believed, we will see the Mi Band 5 come with NFC outside China. It's unclear if the global version of the Mi Band 5 will have a built-in mic or not, but the report says that it will be more advanced and durable than previous models.

Minerva attack can recover private keys from smart cards, cryptographic libraries

Czech academics have detailed a new cryptographic attack that can recover private keys used to sign operations on some smart cards and cryptographic libraries. Once obtained, the private key can allow attackers to spoof any smart cards or sign other cryptographic operations secured by the affected libraries. The attack, named Minerva, was discovered earlier this year in March by academics from the Centre for Research on Cryptography and Security at the Masaryk University, in the Czech Republic.

NXP Introduces Secure UWB Chipset for Mobile Devices

NXP has introduced a secure chipset designed to bring remarkably precise positioning performance to next-generation UWB-enabled mobile devices. With the SR100T, mobile devices will be able to communicate with connected doors, points of entry, and cars to open them once a user is approaching. Lights, audio speakers, and any other connected device with UWB sensing capability will be able to follow users from one room to another, and smart connected technology will intuitively be embedded in people’s lives.

Hitachi Vantara launches new IIoT suite for manufacturing sector

Hitachi Vantara has announced the launch of Lumada Manufacturing Insights, an IIoT suite designed to enhance the manufacturing industry to achieve transformative outcomes with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and DataOps. The Lumada Manufacturing Insights optimises machine, production, and quality outcomes to set the foundation of digital innovation that is necessary to Manufacturing 4.0. The solution can be integrated with existing applications to deliver actionable insights without the requirement for a rip-and-replace change of expensive manufacturing equipment or applications. The suite supports a number of deployment options and can be operated on-premises or in the cloud.

SmartX Launches Multilinear RFID Portals

SmartX Tags is launching in Brazil its line of special radio frequency identification (RFID) portals with multilinear technology, which allows for the controlled and efficient reading of tags arranged in different positions and at much lower deployment costs, the company reports. "No excess reading [is required], just the essentials," says Pedro Moreira, SmartX's CEO. SmartX already has several customers adopting this new portal concept, though some of these clients, due to contractual issues, do not allow the disclosure of their projects. In addition to retail companies such as Havan, there are businesses in the white goods industry, as well as hospitals, that have adopted this technology.

Identiv and Les Bouchages Delage expand partnership and connect consumers to the IoT

Near-field communication (NFC) continues to drive an expanding array of use cases. Consider Identiv and its partnership with Les Bouchages Delage to deliver Internet of Things (IoT)-ready solutions for NFC-connected bottles in the wine and spirit industry. Identiv, a global provider of physical security and secure identification, and Les Bouchages Delage originally partnered while collaborating on an intelligent NFC bottle cap for a luxury cognac brand. Now, the two companies are expanding their partnership by equipping a wide variety of Les Bouchages Delage cap designs with Identiv’s NFC technology. with Identiv’s NFC technology. While partnering on the luxury cognac project, Identiv and Les Bouchages Delage incorporated a contactless NFC tag into the cork stopper of all decanters. By tapping their mobile device to the cork, consumers are able to register their purchase and become a member of a private club providing exclusive content, unique experiences, and personalized services.

Veriff launches NFC verification tool for biometric documents

Veriff launches a near-field communication (NFC) verification tool that enables the company to validate ePassport-compatible identity documents with both iOS and Android devices. Veriff now offers ePassports digital verification on all devices that support ePassports reading, including the most recent Android and iOS devices. The new tool speeds up the verification process, is user friendly and makes it more secure than photo-based verification. According to Kaarel Kotkas, Veriff CEO and founder, Veriff is a frontrunner in providing new secure global verification services. "As soon as the latest iOS version was released, our team prioritized adding an NFC functionality that could verify ePassports and NFC-enabled IDs."

UnionPay reports 200m mobile payments users

There are now more than 200 million users of the UnionPay mobile payments app, the China-based payments network reports, and more than 3m merchants outside mainland China now accept UnionPay mobile payments. Overall, more than 28m merchants around the world accept UnionPay and 120m cards have now been issued outside China.

Paris goes live with NFC transit ticketing

Public transportation users in Paris can now buy and store transit tickets and passes on Samsung and Orange NFC phones — and can use any Android phone to buy a ticket and then upload it to their contactless travel card via NFC. The new NFC ticketing service stores tickets and passes in the SIM in Android smartphones operating on the Orange and Sosh networks or in the embedded secure element built into certain Samsung phones, enabling commuters to use the service even if their smartphone is switched off or out of battery.

Amazon's new wireless protocol for IoT devices will have trouble finding a customer base

Somewhat lost in the shuffle at its hardware event last week, Amazon announced its Sidewalk IoT device networking protocol. The standard is meant to provide connectivity options in circumstances and use cases where Bluetooth or Wi-Fi don't offer sufficient range, but many devices intended for those use cases don't have the space for a battery to support cellular connections. Sidewalk will operate in the unlicensed 900 MHz spectrum bands and could offer a signal range of up to a mile from a hub, depending on interference and conditions. Amazon hopes to build out an array of access points so that its Sidewalk networks can offer a range of coverage in urban areas. The first device to use this protocol is the Ring Fetch, a tracking device from the Amazon-owned home security company meant to help owners keep tabs on their pets.

NFC Replaces Barcode Scanners at Events

NFC is a technology that allows devices to exchange information by placing them next to one another. Smartphones use NFC to pass photos, contacts, or any other specified data between NFC-enabled devices. It’s a simple, easy technology we use on a daily basis without realizing it. NFC has become mainstream at festivals and concerts in recent years; not only as a ticket for access to different zones but also to manage credit for merchandise and catering on location. It also means that the days of tickets being lost, damaged, or falling into the wrong hands is a thing of the past.

MIT developing light-powered RFID tags for the internet of things

Engineers at MIT are developing a way to turn the humble RFID tag into a light-powered sensor for the internet of things. Based on thin-film perovskite cells, the goal is to create inexpensive, internet-connected sensors that can operate without batteries or other outside power sources for months or even years. According to MIT, experts predict internet of things devices will number in the neighborhood of 75 billion by the year 2025. Whether this turns out to be a good thing or not, it does mean that there will be a lot of sensors and other data-gathering devices that will need a lot of energy to keep working.

Wires or RFID Tags in Breast Cancer Excision?

Use of radiofrequency identification (RFID) to tag breast cancers for surgical excision had similar success as the standard of using wires to mark lesion locations prior to surgery, researchers reported here from a small retrospective study. "We found no statistically significant differences in percentage of cases with positive margins, in close margins, and in the need for re-excision in comparing the two modes of marking the breast cancers," said Stephanie Riviere, MD, a resident in pathology at Rhode Island Hospital/Warren Albert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

ISO Selects AIM as International Registration Authority for RFID Standard

AIM, a worldwide industry association for the automatic identification industry, has announced that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has designated it as the International Registration Authority (RA) for the ISO/IEC 15961 standard regarding the use of radio frequency identification technology for item management. Manufacturers of RFID equipment (readers, tags and so forth), as well as users of RFID technology, require a standard-based data protocol for RFID for item management. ISO/IEC 15961, along with ISO/IEC 15962, specifies this data protocol, which is independent of any air-interface standards defined in ISO/IEC 18000.

Ant Financial reports 1.2bn mobile wallet users

Alipay and its local e-wallet partners now collectively serve 1.2 billion users globally, Ant Financial has revealed, up 20% since the end of December 2018 and 260% over the past three years. More than 900 million of the annual active users are in China.

The Barcode: a forty-year legacy

Have you ever noticed that the barcode resides on the back front or literally anywhere on all products in the UK? As much as it goes unnoticed, the barcode has a deep impact on the NHS, retail landscapes, food industries and the economy as a whole. Tracing back, the first UK barcode scan took place on the 2nd of October,1979 at Keymarkets in Spalding, Lincolnshire. It will mark the 40th Anniversary of the UK barcode on 2nd October. An interesting fact about it is that there are 70,000 items being scanned by barcode at every second throughout the globe. The barcode has done wonders and transformed the industry in the UK.