RFIDNews | PositiveID measures body temperature via RFID

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

PositiveID Corp. announced that in conjunction with RFID Solutions of Malaga, Spain it has completed the development of its RFID enabled temperature-sensing microchip. The RFID powered microchip is able to measure internal temperatures within the body and then communicate that temperature wirelessly to an external reader.

PositiveID plans to integrate the temperature-sensing with its Wireless Body platform to provide early warning at the onset of an illness.

The company expects its Wireless Body platform will continue to evolve with the addition of other bio-sensing capabilities, including glucose-sensing through its GlucoChip, which is currently under development.

The Wireless Body platform is an integrated, internal and external, smart health care communication system designed to enhance wellness and disease management, for diabetes and other chronic illnesses. It has the ability to deliver personalized medical solutions wirelessly and allow health care systems to communicate with each other and deliver solutions to patients seamlessly.

Rhode Island health system boosts patient care with AeroScout RTLS

AeroScout is working with Siemens Healthcare to deploy AeroScout’s real-time location system to help health care organizations improve operations and quality of care.

Most recently Siemens implemented AeroScout’s Temperature Monitoring solution across three of Lifespan’s hospitals in Rhode Island. Using its existing Wi-Fi network, Lifespan is monitoring and managing the temperature of hundreds of refrigerators that contain critical items, such as pharmaceuticals, blood, and research materials.

EMVCo to hold annual user meeting in Toronto

EMVCo, the EMV standards body jointly owned by American Express, JCB, MasterCard and Visa, will host its fourth annual EMV User Meeting on June 20 - June 21 at the Courtyard Marriott Downtown in Toronto, Canada.

InSites RTLS leverages ThingMagic RFID technology

Intelligent Insites Inc. announced that its InSites RTLS healthcare software solution now supports ThingMagic Astra readers for passive RFID data integration.

The ThingMagic Astra reader is an ultra-high frequency RFID reader with a fully integrated antenna designed for commercial environments, such as hospitals and clinics. Astra readers offer Power over Ethernet (PoE) and WiFi options to support flexible, low cost installations.

WaveMark, UMass Lowell bring new RFID product to market

WaveMark, provider of RFID-based supply chain solutions for hospitals and medical device manufacturers, and University of Massachusetts Lowell announced a collaborative effort to bring a new RFID product to market.

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