Thursday, June 23, 2005

METRO Group's Gen 2 RFID Goes Live

"A fully functioning EPC Generation 2 RFID (radio frequency identification) system has gone live at the METRO Group's Future Store in Rheinberg, Germany. Within a tight two-week timescale METRO's Intermec IF5 RFID reader and IBM RFID middleware were upgraded to read multi-vendor Gen 2 smart labels." Source: SupplyChainReview