RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification)

As the NANONEWS.NET reported the "Future Store" or "PePyaKa" was shutdown on April 26. X5 Retail Group announces full compliance with its obligations under the project, which is to provide a test site within its Moscow office. RFID equipment dismantled and moved to the headquarter of the "Future Store", which is a joint venture between RUSNANO, X5 Retail Group and RTI, a subsidiary of "Sitronics".
The project started in June 2011 and lasted almost two years. Total for the project was supposed to spend 350 million rubles (12.5 million dollars at the exchange rate on June 2011). For comparison, the Moscow Metro is planning to equip the station 181 cardio equipment to provide on-site emergency care for heart attacks. The amount allocated is 31 million rubles.

March 30, 2012 RUSNANO's project company "RST-Invent" launched its RFID tags (Radio Frequency Identification). At the first stage, the company launched a family of labels, tags, iNano, which includes BiblioTag, LogTag and DrugTag.

DrugTag is optimized for labeling of drugs in glass containers. Antenna design enables an confident writing in the near and far distances while tagging of medical dry mixtures and reliable reading of the label in the near field (up to 30 cm) while tagging of liquid solutions.

BiblioTag is intended to delivery the tagging into the library collections and archives. This label, as well as LogTag, can also be used for tagging of items in logistics and supply chain management.

Because of the original designs of antennas with high gain, these tags can read and write information over long distances.

The world market for RFID technology is projected to reach USD $18.7 billion by the year 2017, according new research announced by Global Industry Analysts Inc..

RFID offers many advantages - production efficiency, inventory updates in real-time, shipping and importing economies, greater product security and curbing of counterfeit products are among others. It is due to these and other benefits such as declining tag prices, greater end-user responsiveness and technological advancements that RFID is expected to gain widespread acceptance among various businesses for a wide range of applications.

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.

Impinj introduced Monza Self-Serialization, a chip-based EPC serialization method supported on ultra-high frequency RFID inlays powered by the Monza 5 tag chip.

Monza Self-Serialization generates a unique Serialized Global Trade Item Number (SGTIN) directly from each tag chip. This chip-based serialization simplifies EPC serial number management, giving retail brand owners the flexibility to decide when, where and how they manage the item-level tagging process across their supply chain.