Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

Avery Dennison's RFID inlay now ready for takeoff

Friday, December 18, 2009

Avery Dennison announced that its RFID inlays have successfully passed specifications and system tests to meet performance requirements for the tagging of luggage and bags at airports, as established by the International Air Transport Association.

Avery Dennsion, through its partnership with Motorola and Print-O-Tape, will begin by supplying Hong Kong International Airport with AD-833 inlays for up to 70 million RFID enabled baggage tracking tags.


The AD-833 inlay can be read at virtually any angle, which enables better read capture rates in baggage applications, where there is little control over the orientation of a bag. With the use of RFID tags bad reads from damaged bar codes are a thing of the past, and costs involved with replacing, locating and delivering misplaced luggage are reduced.

With the use of RFID tags airports hope to provide better security for protecting passengers and crew members, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction.

Recent studies have demonstrated that the deployment of RFID systems for bag tagging can provide a rapid return on investment by increasing accuracy and reliability of read rates and decreasing the amount of errors with routing and locating luggage pieces. [end] 

Smart Packaging Solutions (SPS) announced it is ready to deliver its to smart card products to manufacturers in China.

This, following the Chinese Government, along with People’s Bank of China (PBOC) confirmation that all banking cards in China would use smart card technologies by 2015. PBOC has already published the specification for these cards, called PBOC 2.0, which includes the certification scheme.

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Xerafy announced the debut of Metal Skin, an ultra-high frequency EPC RFID inlay designed specifically for tracking metallic assets.

Metal Skin is a low profile inlay family containing the Impinj Monza 4QT chip. It is lightweight and flexible to fit curved surfaces such as the contour of metal cylinders and drums, without compromising performance.

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UPM RFID introduced two inlays featuring the NXP UCODE G2iL chip: the UPM Stamp near field ultra-high frequency inlay and UPM Jewel ultra-high frequency inlay.

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Avery Dennison Healthcare Provider Solutions and Trimble are working together to deliver ThingMagic powered passive RFID-based systems to hospitals.

As part of the joint effort, Avery will leverage Trimble’s ThingMagic Mercury6 and Astra ultra-high frequency reader platforms to improve key processes for increased patient safety and satisfaction and reduce costs.

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Avery Dennison RFID has unveiled its new N-Zone line of NFC inlays for use in smart posters, mobile devices and product labels.

According to Maggie Bidlingmaier, global director of sales and marketing at Avery Dennison, the inlays will help transform ordinary product labels and store environments into powerful media for branding and new customer experiences.

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Avery Dennison and Xtreme RFID partnered to develop a new RFID-based tag for mounting on metal surfaces - the Xtreme Metal Tag.

The Xtreme Meta tag features Avery Dennison’s AD-843 ultra-high frequency inlay encased in plastic via a custom injection molding process developed by Xtreme RFID.

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