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It s the first phone with Android an open source mobile operating system largely developed by Google that will ship with other phones in the future. For that reason and the inclusion of Google s core services some people call the G the Google phone. Open source means the operating system s blueprints are published allowing software developers to create programs or apps that users can download. There are apps for the iPhone too but Apple hand picks which ones are available something that limits innovation. The G . with a two year contract available Oct. is a nice introduction to Android a mobile operating system that continues the evolution of phones as powerful computing platforms. But it doesn t do a great job showcasing its potential. It isn t as intuitive as the iPhone and it may take average users a while to figure out basic and advanced shortcuts and features like the ability to quickly switch between programs or to copy and paste links between programs. Without the instant wow factor of an iPhone it probably won t catch on as quickly with the average consumer. Instead it may appeal more to techies who value open source products and don t mind a somewhat steep learning curve. It also lacks features that would attract corporate users such as Microsoft Exchange support although a T Mobile representative said he expects it to be added by the end of the year. Once Android is released on a phone that comes closer to the sleek design of the iPhone and developers have more time to build applications for it I expect it to be more of a competitor. Besides techies this phone may appeal to people who don t need the business features of a BlackBerry or iPhone or crave some of the things the iPhone lacks such as a keyboard removable battery SD card slot and a better camera. It is also good if your life revolves around Google because it makes using Google products such as Gmail Maps and Calendar easy to use. The addition of Wi Fi and GPS are also nice. The G made by HTC resembles the popular T Mobile Sidekick phones because it has a screen that slides out to reveal a keyboard. On the right side of the keyboard there is an angled piece that has been dubbed the Leno chin by many bloggers. It may frustrate some users because it can constrict your right thumb when you are typing on the keyboard. There s a trackball and a row of buttons on the Leno chin that you will use the most. The trackball is a nice alternative to trying to touch a link on the screen. There s a virtual keypad for dialing numbers. You can play music and videos on the G but it probably won t replace your iPod especially since you need an adapter to use it with regular headphones. Although there are fewer than apps available now in the Android Market it is easier to download and install them than on the iPhone. Among the best are several price comparison tools that let you use the G s camera as a bar code scanner. Once the bar code is recognized the app displays an organized list of online prices as well as the price and availability at nearby stores. You can run applications at the same time letting you stay signed in to an instant messaging program while browsing the Web. Google Maps is especially good on the G because it includes Google s Street View allowing you to see street level photos. The G boasts a Web browser that should display Web pages as if you were using a computer but it isn t as good as the iPhone. Although you can zoom in and out of Web pages and choose the areas to focus in on it s not as easy or as convenient as the way you can use two fingers to zoom in and out on the iPhone. And some Web sites displayed a stripped down mobile version even though the phone can handle the real thing. T Mobile said the battery gives you five hours of talking time but when doing a combination of activities such as making calls sending e mails and browsing the Web I got only about three hours which is comparable to the iPhone G. c The Orlando Sentinel Fla. . Distributed by McClatchy Tribune Information Services. Comments Post Read Comments Next Article in Technology Coverage Apple s earnings up percent on iPhone boom Page Continue Advertisment Photos Galleries Photo by AP File In this Sept. file photo the T Mobile G Android powered phone the first cell phone with the operating system designed by Google Inc. is shown in New York. Related Articles Google Authors Guild settle book scan suit By Associated Press NEW YORK Google Inc. the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. More on Google T Mobile G Top articles in Business Barney Frank Let s act on crisis recession House prices fall to levels Microsoft goes black making Chinese see red Resort seeks nd Bretton Woods summit Dow adds in bargain hunter s rally Advertisment Contact us Print advertising Online advertising Herald history News tips Electronic edition Browser upgrade Home delivery Herald wireless ave on Boston Herald Home Delivery Jobs with Herald Media For back copy information and more information on other collectible copies please call Ext. . Click here for Celtics Patriots and Red Sox back copies Copyright by the Boston Herald and Herald Media. No portion of BostonHerald.com or its content may be reproduced without the owner s written permission. Privacy Commitment Featured Sponsor Active RFID RTLS Sensor Networks . Editor s Note . Classified Listings . Top Story RFID Smart Boxes Help Manufacturer Meet Mandate . Vertical News Sponsors Ferroxtag Active RFID RTLS Sensor Networks Nov. Dallas USA Editor s Note Today s top story is a deployment of RFID embedded smart boxes and a mobile reader solution by pet product manufacturer Normerica to meet Wal Mart Canada s RFID requirements. eWeek reports on a recent joint study by the University of Washington and RSA Labs that found the new RFID enabled US PASS Cards are relatively easy to clone and can be read at distances up to feet. On the first point it s hard to understand that cloning represents that much of a threat since a border crossing official would still check the image on the cloned PASS Card against the face of the person presenting it which of course wouldn t match. On the second point foot read ranges seem extreme and unlikely but even still PASS Cards are distributed to the public with sleeves to protect against skimming. Lastly a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said both vulnerabilities are moot anyway because the tests were conducted using old versions of the cards. It s hard to imagine much more than a shrug in reaction to this most recent study. Lastly Ekahau has announced the selection of its RTLS technology by the IEEE Computer Society as the best value among commercially available RTLS systems for in building location tracking. The IEEE researchers looked at solutions in total then whittled them down to five finalists AeroScout Cisco Ekahau Ubisense and WhereNet before ranking Ekahau first overall. RTLS Active RFID Sponsored by Ekahau Locate it now. How Ekahau. That s how site Employment RFID Recruiters Focused on RFID Recruiting site Products Services Real Time WIP Visibility Appliance from Omnitrol Networks site RFID Tags Labels Ferroxtag HF tags Smart on Metal site Tag Any Asset Nox TM site Upcoming Events RFID December CNIT La Defense France site Pharma Supply Cold Chain Congress Nov rd th Amsterdam site Active RFID RTLS Sensor Networks Nov Dallas site RFID Health Care Industry Adoption Summit Nov D.C. site Research Whitepapers RFID Marketing Strategies Report site RFID Smart Boxes Help Manufacturer Meet Mandate By Brian Albright Private label cat litter and pet product manufacturer Normerica Inc. is using smart boxes with embedded RFID tags and a mobile reader solution to comply with Wal Mart Canada s RFID initiative. Because the system did not require the installation of fixed RFID reader encoders or printers Normerica was able to rapidly deploy a compliance solution with no significant retooling of its packing or shipping lines. The reader encoder is part of a mobile cart system from Ship Save equipped with Impinj Speedway RFID readers a PC an adjustable antenna a Symbol Technologies Motorola hand held bar code scanner a three color light stack and horn a motion proximity sensor and an LCD screen. An uninterrupted power supply allows moving the station between conveyor lines with minimum downtime. The HIDE Pack smart boxes are supplied by Normerica s packaging partner Krupack a business unit of Kruger Inc. HIDE Pack is a separate business unit of Kruger established last year in partnership with Domino Integrated Solutions Group see New Smart Boxes Provide Alternative to RFID Labels . According to Krupack RFID smart boxes can provide a percent cost savings over print apply solutions. If you compare the print and apply process at consumer goods manufacturing with eight packaging lines you d have to have eight applicators and printers said Paul de Blois HIDE Pack vice president and general manager. We can produce the boxes on flexo folder gluer at a speed of per minute which is much faster than the throughput of a typical print apply system. An EPC Gen RFID inlay is inserted in each box during the manufacturing process then verified prior to shipment to the customer. By using pre tagged boxes Normerica was able to avoid the expense of installing print and apply equipment on each of its packing lines. Because Normerica manufacturers cat litter maintaining the label printers would have also been challenging because of the tremendous amount of dust present in the plant. We would have to have a printer on every single line said Simon Than IT director at Normerica. We supply every major grocery chain and we have a separate line for each box format. If we were to expand RFID to other formats we d have to have applicators on each line but we d only use them maybe ten percent of the time. With the mobile cart system we can move the encoder where we need it to be. They have several conveyor belts and they could never be certain which product was going to move down which line said Amninder Singh vice president of products and services at Ship Save. Instead of investing in a full infrastructure they wanted a system that could be moved from one conveyor line to another. Normerica is using three of the mobile carts at its Brantford Ontario and Lethbridge Alberta facilities. After the HIDE Pack boxes which arrive at the plants with no encoding are filled with containers of cat littler they pass by the Ship Save mobile cart which encodes and verifies the tags as they roll down a conveyor system. The encoding process is initiated after an employee uses the bar code scanner on the cart to scan the first of the tagged boxes. If there is an encoding error an audible alarm sounds and the box is removed from the conveyor. We re seeing less than half a percent error rate from failures Than said. Normerica began testing the system over the summer. Wal Mart Canada only requires RFID tags at the shipper case level and so far Normerica has only shipped a few thousand tagged boxes to the retailer s Ontario distribution center. Eventually the system will be expanded to include Western Canada. The trial started in June and has been running extremely well said Rob Latter group vice president at Krupack. We believe we re going to see demand for the boxes explode over the next nine months as retailers push these requirements back to their suppliers. Normerica also supplies pet treats to Wal Mart but these products won t be tagged for the time being because those products are made in China and shipped in whole cases. Than says that Normerica is looking for a vendor in China that can provide RFID tagging at the point of manufacture in order to avoid costly repackaging in Canada. According to Than the primary benefit of the system is that Normerica was able to meet Wal Mart s requirements with minimal disruption to its shipping operations. In terms of the overall process this system really doesn t have much impact on us Than says. We just move the cart to the line where the RFID boxes are going to be shipped and it s up and running with very little start up time. If we had to label the boxes ourselves we would have a lot more downtime. There are no mechanical processes involved so there is less chance of the system breaking down Singh added. And even though Latter says that the RFID inlays increase the cost of HIDE pack boxes by an average of to cents Normerica is still saving money on the application. The tags in the boxes are actually cheaper than what we would be paying if we bought rolls of labels Than says. So not only is there a productivity benefit but a cost benefit as well. Forward this to a colleague Request reprints reprintsatrfidupdatedotcom Asset Tracking Sponsored by Ferroxtag Dutch Forensics Lab Tracks Evidence With RFID Log House Maker Using RFID to Track Material RFID Benchmark Tests Prove Positive for IT Asset Tracking Retail CPG Sensormatic Buys Vue for M Staples Achieves Great ROI Expands RFID Deployment Swiss Retailer Using RFID to Track Cases in Reusable Containers RTLS Active RFID Startup to Deliver Standards Compliant UWB RTLS Motorola Integrates RTLS RFID with Wireless Platform Innovation to Drive Strong RTLS Adoption Supply Chain Logistics ndale Spain s Postal Service Deploys RFID Walgreens RFID Deployment Announced METRO Group Brings DHL Into Its RFID Fold Pharmaceutical Healthcare AIM to Clarify RFID Interference with Medical Devices GE Healthcare Finds Opportunity Acquires RTLS Firm USB Stick RFID Reader Debuts Middleware Software Systems Checkpoint Buys OAT to Become One Stop RFID Shop RFID Data Sharing Passes Test in Successful EPCIS Trial SAP XML Helps Wilson Easily Integrate RFID Labeling Defense Government RFID Patent Pool Approved by US Government US Army Signs M Contract for Passive RFID RFID Driver s Licenses Gain Traction in the US RTLS Active RFID Locate it now. How Ekahau. That s how Ekahau RTLS Real Time Location System automatically tracks assets and people via your existing Wi Fi network. Control costs and improve asset management with Ekahau. For more information visit us at www.ekahau.com . Employment RFID Recruiters Focused on RFID Recruiting Whether your company is looking for the best RFID talent or you have the best RFID talent and are looking for the best RFID employer RFID Recruiters offers the most focused approach to your objective. To learn how the RFID industry and the RFID job market are evolving visit www.rfidrecruiters.com Products Services Real Time WIP Visibility Appliance from Omnitrol Networks Meet the industry s most innovative award winning RFID solution that enables complete work order traceability in manufacturing. Real time web based dashboards and multi site monitoring for work order pedigree and traceability including proactive bottleneck management and real time performance analytics optimizing shop floor efficiency. All at the lowest TCO in the marketplace. www.omnitrol.com WIP . RFID Tags Labels Ferroxtag HF tags Smart on Metal Ferroxtag is a new family of HF RFID tags suitable for operation on metallic surfaces. Ferroxtag s special ferrite antenna was developed using Ferroxcube s years of experience in ferrite technology. The high performance antenna means longer read range with a smaller tag. Visit www.ferroxtag.com Tag Any Asset Nox TM F to F. Metal Mount. IP Rated. UHF US and Euro. EPC Generation . Rugged. read range. Only . long. Available now. Please visit Simply RFID for more information. Upcoming Events RFID December CNIT La Defense France RFID presents solutions and services for traceability and identification of materials products or people. RFID University offers an opportunity to learn from experiences presented by internationally renowned experts. With over exhibitors and visitors RFID Show offers solutions demonstrations and applications for Europe. Get your free entry badge Pharma Supply Cold Chain Congress Nov rd th Amsterdam Featuring keynote addresses presentations and panel discussions from over industry speakers as well as two interactive workshops. Topics such as Cold Chain Regulations Compliance Optimisation Efficiency of the Supply Chain Secure Chain Cold Chain and Risk Management and Transportation will be discussed. Register here Active RFID RTLS Sensor Networks Nov Dallas IDTechEx presents the only event in the world dedicated to the technologies of Active RFID RTLS and Ubiquitous Sensor Networks. The conference will look at the key applications that are driving growth including manufacturing healthcare the military and security postal and courier and logistics. 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It s the first phone with Android an open source mobile operating system largely developed by Google that will ship with other phones in the future. For that reason and the inclusion of Google s core services some people call the G the Google phone. Open source means the operating system s blueprints are published allowing software developers to create programs or apps that users can download. There are apps for the iPhone too but Apple hand picks which ones are available something that limits innovation. The G . with a two year contract available Oct. is a nice introduction to Android a mobile operating system that continues the evolution of phones as powerful computing platforms. But it doesn t do a great job showcasing its potential. It isn t as intuitive as the iPhone and it may take average users a while to figure out basic and advanced shortcuts and features like the ability to quickly switch between programs or to copy and paste links between programs. Without the instant wow factor of an iPhone it probably won t catch on as quickly with the average consumer. Instead it may appeal more to techies who value open source products and don t mind a somewhat steep learning curve. It also lacks features that would attract corporate users such as Microsoft Exchange support although a T Mobile representative said he expects it to be added by the end of the year. Once Android is released on a phone that comes closer to the sleek design of the iPhone and developers have more time to build applications for it I expect it to be more of a competitor. Besides techies this phone may appeal to people who don t need the business features of a BlackBerry or iPhone or crave some of the things the iPhone lacks such as a keyboard removable battery SD card slot and a better camera. It is also good if your life revolves around Google because it makes using Google products such as Gmail Maps and Calendar easy to use. The addition of Wi Fi and GPS are also nice. The G made by HTC resembles the popular T Mobile Sidekick phones because it has a screen that slides out to reveal a keyboard. On the right side of the keyboard there is an angled piece that has been dubbed the Leno chin by many bloggers. It may frustrate some users because it can constrict your right thumb when you are typing on the keyboard. There s a trackball and a row of buttons on the Leno chin that you will use the most. The trackball is a nice alternative to trying to touch a link on the screen. There s a virtual keypad for dialing numbers. You can play music and videos on the G but it probably won t replace your iPod especially since you need an adapter to use it with regular headphones. Although there are fewer than apps available now in the Android Market it is easier to download and install them than on the iPhone. Among the best are several price comparison tools that let you use the G s camera as a bar code scanner. Once the bar code is recognized the app displays an organized list of online prices as well as the price and availability at nearby stores. You can run applications at the same time letting you stay signed in to an instant messaging program while browsing the Web. Google Maps is especially good on the G because it includes Google s Street View allowing you to see street level photos. The G boasts a Web browser that should display Web pages as if you were using a computer but it isn t as good as the iPhone. Although you can zoom in and out of Web pages and choose the areas to focus in on it s not as easy or as convenient as the way you can use two fingers to zoom in and out on the iPhone. And some Web sites displayed a stripped down mobile version even though the phone can handle the real thing. T Mobile said the battery gives you five hours of talking time but when doing a combination of activities such as making calls sending e mails and browsing the Web I got only about three hours which is comparable to the iPhone G. c The Orlando Sentinel Fla. . Distributed by McClatchy Tribune Information Services. Comments Post Read Comments Next Article in Technology Coverage Apple s earnings up percent on iPhone boom Page Continue Advertisment Photos Galleries Photo by AP File In this Sept. file photo the T Mobile G Android powered phone the first cell phone with the operating system designed by Google Inc. is shown in New York. Related Articles Google Authors Guild settle book scan suit By Associated Press NEW YORK Google Inc. the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. More on Google T Mobile G Top articles in Business Barney Frank Let s act on crisis recession House prices fall to levels Microsoft goes black making Chinese see red Resort seeks nd Bretton Woods summit Dow adds in bargain hunter s rally Advertisment Contact us Print advertising Online advertising Herald history News tips Electronic edition Browser upgrade Home delivery Herald wireless ave on Boston Herald Home Delivery Jobs with Herald Media For back copy information and more information on other collectible copies please call Ext. . Click here for Celtics Patriots and Red Sox back copies Copyright by the Boston Herald and Herald Media. No portion of BostonHerald.com or its content may be reproduced without the owner s written permission. Privacy Commitment Featured Sponsor Active RFID RTLS Sensor Networks . Editor s Note . Classified Listings . Top Story RFID Smart Boxes Help Manufacturer Meet Mandate . Vertical News Sponsors Ferroxtag Active RFID RTLS Sensor Networks Nov. Dallas USA Editor s Note Today s top story is a deployment of RFID embedded smart boxes and a mobile reader solution by pet product manufacturer Normerica to meet Wal Mart Canada s RFID requirements. eWeek reports on a recent joint study by the University of Washington and RSA Labs that found the new RFID enabled US PASS Cards are relatively easy to clone and can be read at distances up to feet. On the first point it s hard to understand that cloning represents that much of a threat since a border crossing official would still check the image on the cloned PASS Card against the face of the person presenting it which of course wouldn t match. On the second point foot read ranges seem extreme and unlikely but even still PASS Cards are distributed to the public with sleeves to protect against skimming. Lastly a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said both vulnerabilities are moot anyway because the tests were conducted using old versions of the cards. It s hard to imagine much more than a shrug in reaction to this most recent study. Lastly Ekahau has announced the selection of its RTLS technology by the IEEE Computer Society as the best value among commercially available RTLS systems for in building location tracking. The IEEE researchers looked at solutions in total then whittled them down to five finalists AeroScout Cisco Ekahau Ubisense and WhereNet before ranking Ekahau first overall. RTLS Active RFID Sponsored by Ekahau Locate it now. How Ekahau. That s how site Employment RFID Recruiters Focused on RFID Recruiting site Products Services Real Time WIP Visibility Appliance from Omnitrol Networks site RFID Tags Labels Ferroxtag HF tags Smart on Metal site Tag Any Asset Nox TM site Upcoming Events RFID December CNIT La Defense France site Pharma Supply Cold Chain Congress Nov rd th Amsterdam site Active RFID RTLS Sensor Networks Nov Dallas site RFID Health Care Industry Adoption Summit Nov D.C. site Research Whitepapers RFID Marketing Strategies Report site RFID Smart Boxes Help Manufacturer Meet Mandate By Brian Albright Private label cat litter and pet product manufacturer Normerica Inc. is using smart boxes with embedded RFID tags and a mobile reader solution to comply with Wal Mart Canada s RFID initiative. Because the system did not require the installation of fixed RFID reader encoders or printers Normerica was able to rapidly deploy a compliance solution with no significant retooling of its packing or shipping lines. The reader encoder is part of a mobile cart system from Ship Save equipped with Impinj Speedway RFID readers a PC an adjustable antenna a Symbol Technologies Motorola hand held bar code scanner a three color light stack and horn a motion proximity sensor and an LCD screen. An uninterrupted power supply allows moving the station between conveyor lines with minimum downtime. The HIDE Pack smart boxes are supplied by Normerica s packaging partner Krupack a business unit of Kruger Inc. HIDE Pack is a separate business unit of Kruger established last year in partnership with Domino Integrated Solutions Group see New Smart Boxes Provide Alternative to RFID Labels . According to Krupack RFID smart boxes can provide a percent cost savings over print apply solutions. If you compare the print and apply process at consumer goods manufacturing with eight packaging lines you d have to have eight applicators and printers said Paul de Blois HIDE Pack vice president and general manager. We can produce the boxes on flexo folder gluer at a speed of per minute which is much faster than the throughput of a typical print apply system. An EPC Gen RFID inlay is inserted in each box during the manufacturing process then verified prior to shipment to the customer. By using pre tagged boxes Normerica was able to avoid the expense of installing print and apply equipment on each of its packing lines. Because Normerica manufacturers cat litter maintaining the label printers would have also been challenging because of the tremendous amount of dust present in the plant. We would have to have a printer on every single line said Simon Than IT director at Normerica. We supply every major grocery chain and we have a separate line for each box format. If we were to expand RFID to other formats we d have to have applicators on each line but we d only use them maybe ten percent of the time. With the mobile cart system we can move the encoder where we need it to be. They have several conveyor belts and they could never be certain which product was going to move down which line said Amninder Singh vice president of products and services at Ship Save. Instead of investing in a full infrastructure they wanted a system that could be moved from one conveyor line to another. Normerica is using three of the mobile carts at its Brantford Ontario and Lethbridge Alberta facilities. After the HIDE Pack boxes which arrive at the plants with no encoding are filled with containers of cat littler they pass by the Ship Save mobile cart which encodes and verifies the tags as they roll down a conveyor system. The encoding process is initiated after an employee uses the bar code scanner on the cart to scan the first of the tagged boxes. If there is an encoding error an audible alarm sounds and the box is removed from the conveyor. We re seeing less than half a percent error rate from failures Than said. Normerica began testing the system over the summer. Wal Mart Canada only requires RFID tags at the shipper case level and so far Normerica has only shipped a few thousand tagged boxes to the retailer s Ontario distribution center. Eventually the system will be expanded to include Western Canada. The trial started in June and has been running extremely well said Rob Latter group vice president at Krupack. We believe we re going to see demand for the boxes explode over the next nine months as retailers push these requirements back to their suppliers. Normerica also supplies pet treats to Wal Mart but these products won t be tagged for the time being because those products are made in China and shipped in whole cases. Than says that Normerica is looking for a vendor in China that can provide RFID tagging at the point of manufacture in order to avoid costly repackaging in Canada. According to Than the primary benefit of the system is that Normerica was able to meet Wal Mart s requirements with minimal disruption to its shipping operations. In terms of the overall process this system really doesn t have much impact on us Than says. We just move the cart to the line where the RFID boxes are going to be shipped and it s up and running with very little start up time. If we had to label the boxes ourselves we would have a lot more downtime. There are no mechanical processes involved so there is less chance of the system breaking down Singh added. And even though Latter says that the RFID inlays increase the cost of HIDE pack boxes by an average of to cents Normerica is still saving money on the application. The tags in the boxes are actually cheaper than what we would be paying if we bought rolls of labels Than says. So not only is there a productivity benefit but a cost benefit as well. Forward this to a colleague Request reprints reprintsatrfidupdatedotcom Asset Tracking Sponsored by Ferroxtag Dutch Forensics Lab Tracks Evidence With RFID Log House Maker Using RFID to Track Material RFID Benchmark Tests Prove Positive for IT Asset Tracking Retail CPG Sensormatic Buys Vue for M Staples Achieves Great ROI Expands RFID Deployment Swiss Retailer Using RFID to Track Cases in Reusable Containers RTLS Active RFID Startup to Deliver Standards Compliant UWB RTLS Motorola Integrates RTLS RFID with Wireless Platform Innovation to Drive Strong RTLS Adoption Supply Chain Logistics ndale Spain s Postal Service Deploys RFID Walgreens RFID Deployment Announced METRO Group Brings DHL Into Its RFID Fold Pharmaceutical Healthcare AIM to Clarify RFID Interference with Medical Devices GE Healthcare Finds Opportunity Acquires RTLS Firm USB Stick RFID Reader Debuts Middleware Software Systems Checkpoint Buys OAT to Become One Stop RFID Shop RFID Data Sharing Passes Test in Successful EPCIS Trial SAP XML Helps Wilson Easily Integrate RFID Labeling Defense Government RFID Patent Pool Approved by US Government US Army Signs M Contract for Passive RFID RFID Driver s Licenses Gain Traction in the US RTLS Active RFID Locate it now. How Ekahau. That s how Ekahau RTLS Real Time Location System automatically tracks assets and people via your existing Wi Fi network. Control costs and improve asset management with Ekahau. For more information visit us at www.ekahau.com . Employment RFID Recruiters Focused on RFID Recruiting Whether your company is looking for the best RFID talent or you have the best RFID talent and are looking for the best RFID employer RFID Recruiters offers the most focused approach to your objective. To learn how the RFID industry and the RFID job market are evolving visit www.rfidrecruiters.com Products Services Real Time WIP Visibility Appliance from Omnitrol Networks Meet the industry s most innovative award winning RFID solution that enables complete work order traceability in manufacturing. Real time web based dashboards and multi site monitoring for work order pedigree and traceability including proactive bottleneck management and real time performance analytics optimizing shop floor efficiency. All at the lowest TCO in the marketplace. www.omnitrol.com WIP . RFID Tags Labels Ferroxtag HF tags Smart on Metal Ferroxtag is a new family of HF RFID tags suitable for operation on metallic surfaces. Ferroxtag s special ferrite antenna was developed using Ferroxcube s years of experience in ferrite technology. The high performance antenna means longer read range with a smaller tag. Visit www.ferroxtag.com Tag Any Asset Nox TM F to F. Metal Mount. IP Rated. UHF US and Euro. EPC Generation . Rugged. read range. Only . long. Available now. Please visit Simply RFID for more information. Upcoming Events RFID December CNIT La Defense France RFID presents solutions and services for traceability and identification of materials products or people. RFID University offers an opportunity to learn from experiences presented by internationally renowned experts. With over exhibitors and visitors RFID Show offers solutions demonstrations and applications for Europe. Get your free entry badge Pharma Supply Cold Chain Congress Nov rd th Amsterdam Featuring keynote addresses presentations and panel discussions from over industry speakers as well as two interactive workshops. Topics such as Cold Chain Regulations Compliance Optimisation Efficiency of the Supply Chain Secure Chain Cold Chain and Risk Management and Transportation will be discussed. Register here Active RFID RTLS Sensor Networks Nov Dallas IDTechEx presents the only event in the world dedicated to the technologies of Active RFID RTLS and Ubiquitous Sensor Networks. The conference will look at the key applications that are driving growth including manufacturing healthcare the military and security postal and courier and logistics. 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