Tracking, Monitoring & Control

Alanco lands multimillion dollar D.C. contract

Alanco/TSI PRISM has been awarded a $3.3 million contract by the Washington, D.C., Department of Corrections for a radio frequency identification inmate-tracking system that will track and monitor more than 2000 inmates at the department’s jail. The new …

Raveon Technologies offers GPS tracking transponder

Raveon Technologies announced the M7 GX GPS tracking transponder, a UHF transceiver with a high-speed modem, a GPS receiver, TDMA channel access and 5-watts of RF output. It also offers a multi-protocol interfaces to various PC software programs, such …

Federal agency deploys Digital Angel wireless transponders

Digital Angel secured a three-year, $6 million contract from the Bonneville Power Administration, a federal agency under the U.S. Department of Energy, for Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) technology. PIT is used in conjunction with a radio …

Intermec announces RFID reader add-on

Intermec introduced the IP30 add-on RFID reader, a solution for adding mobile RFID read/write capability to Intermec mobile computers including the CN3, CN3e, CK61 and upcoming CK61ex. The IP30 delivers mobile RFID read-write capability and can be …

Fortress demonstrates wireless backbone in military test

Tampa, Fla.-based Fortress Technologies has demonstrated a secure, wireless backbone as part of a deployable Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, kit during a Marine Expeditionary Force exercise in Gladstone Port, Australia. The exercise simulated …

Checkpoint Systems joins RFID initiative

Thorofare, N.J.-based Checkpoint Systems announced that it has been invited to become a strategic partner of the RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas. The RFID Research Center is part of the Information Technology Research Institute in the …

RFID security platform introduced

San Jose, Calif.-based Atmel Corp. announced the introduction of the CryptoRF, a 13.56 MHz RFID solution that features a 64-bit cryptographic engine and a mutual authentication that make it more difficult for counterfeiters to ply their craft. In fact, …

Texas to get statewide citizen-evacuation system

AT&T announced a contract with the State of Texas to deliver a customized citizen-evacuation system. Dubbed the Texas Special Needs Evacuation Tracking System, or SNETS, the system uses RFID and mobile data technologies to track evacuees in the event of …

State Attorney’s office adopts RFID

InnerWireless installed its PanGo real-time location system at the state of Florida’s 15th Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s office. The deployment includes off-the-shelf passive RFID readers and tags from ThingMagic and InnerWireless’ application …

RFID adopted by emergency medical responders

VeriChip Corp.’s radio frequency identification (RFID) Patient Identification System now serves emergency medical responders. The company announced it has equipped 27 American Medical Response in the Atlanta metro area with Bluetooth-enabled scanners, …

Alanco lands multimillion dollar D.C. contract

Raveon Technologies offers GPS tracking transponder

Federal agency deploys Digital Angel wireless transponders

Intermec announces RFID reader add-on

Fortress demonstrates wireless backbone in military test

Checkpoint Systems joins RFID initiative

RFID security platform introduced

Texas to get statewide citizen-evacuation system

State Attorney’s office adopts RFID

RFID adopted by emergency medical responders

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