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RFID reaches 100% reliability

During the recent RFID Health Care Industry Adoption Summit in Washington D.C., packaging maker Owens-Illinois (O-I) and RFID provider Impinj demonstrated 100% reliability of radiofrequency identification (RFID) for pharmaceuticals in an item-level live demonstration. The companies claim that a new "embedded tag" method has helped them achieve this.

May 31, 2007
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