RFIP in the News

DTI Global Watch Mission to Japan - seminar in March 2007

RFIP took part in a 10 day visit in November 2006 to RFID vendors and experts organised by the DTI. David Armstrong contributed to the final report which was presented at a seminar in March 2007. Click here for seminar details.

AFRITAG RFID conference November 2006

Chris Turner chaired and Ian Pattison spoke at AFRITAG’s RFID conference in Johannesburg in November 2006. Chris was quoted as urging South African organisations to join EPCglobal to keep abreast of latest developments in RFID technology, particularly with regard to item-level tagging. Ian was quoted on the privacy issues and human factors associated with RFID implementations. Click here for the full article in ITWeb.

Profile of RFIP in ‘The Independent’ 22 October 2006

Background to RFID and to the RFIP company are described in this profile. Click here for the full article.

DTI Global Watch Mission to the USA

RFIP took part in a 2 week visit in May 2006 to RFID vendors and experts organised by the DTI. David Armstrong contributed to the final report. Click here for the seminar at the National RFID Centre in September 2006 which reported findings from the mission.

RFID Online Summit September 2006

Paul Chartier is quoted on vulnerability of RFID chips to hacking and on the work being undertaken by ISO in RFID. Chris Turner is quoted on differences between US and European regulatory regimes, specifically on the Listen Before Talk protocol which can limit true event-driven RFID. Click here for the news article.

KOEB (Korea e-Business Association) conference June 2006

Ian Pattison spoke at the KOEB conference on ubiquitous services and RFID in Seoul in June 2006. His two presentations covered developments in tag and reader technology, and how to involve people – consumers, customers, employees and suppliers – in successful RFID implementations. Click here for a summary of the conference from ECom, the Next Generation Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan.