“The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has begun a program that uses RFID technology to track tag captive deer and elk in the U.S. By tagging individual deer and elk, the USDA will be able to research the movement of the animals and determine how they are contracting chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal neurological disorder. At this point, scientists do not know how the disease is spread. The USDA purchased RFID tags and readers from Digital Angel, a St. Paul, Minn., company that makes systems used to wirelessly identify and track people, animals and assets.”
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HID Global announced the debut of two new Glass Tag Ultra RFID transponders for animal identification and industrial applications. The HID Global design featured in the Glass Tag Ultra 134.2 kHz transponders use direct bonding technology and optimized chip placement to enable a boost of performance. Read ranges are improved by up to 35% compared to low frequency glass tags of the similar size. read more »LexisNexis Risk Solutions has added interactive voice response technology (IVR) from Angel, a provider of cloud-based customer engagement management products, for its LexisNexis IVR on Demand for Identity Proofing and Voice Biometrics product. read more »Digital Angel announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Allflex USA Inc. to sell its animal identification business, Destron Fearing Corp., for a purchase price of $25 million. read more »Dutch RFID inlay maker Smartrac has announced the availability of its new Midas NFC tag. Designed to link small objects with cloud services, Midas tags can be attached to electronics and various other accessories allowing for a unique identification of the object while at the same time granting access to a range of services and options residing in the cloud. read more »In an effort to promote efficiencies and reduce paperwork costs, three leading identity trust hubs and a certification authority have signed an agreement to promote the use of digital identities and public key infrastructure (PKI) for employees in both the private and public sectors. read more »HID Global has developed a new a manufacturing process that enables use of some of the world’s smallest integrated low-frequency (LF) chips ever produced for contactless ID applications. read more » |
