Some 30 gold mines throughout South America are anticipated to use an RFID solution from PlasmaTech to increase worker safety and emergency response in the event of an industrial accident requiring evacuation.

Each worker entering the mine wears an RFID tag, which enable installed fixed readers to gather data and wireless transmit it to a computerized personnel-tracking system. This data allows emergency responders to know who has made it safely out of the mine and what personnel still remains in the mine. ▸

Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control have launched a product verification initiative, via RFID, in an effort to reduce the counterfeiting of drugs, reports the African Press Agency.

Carried out in collaboration with Verification Technology Limited (VTL), RFID tags will be equipped to secure the integrity of the drug supply chain, while tracking the product path as it moves through the supply chain from manufacturer to distributors, wholesalers, retailers and finally to the consumers. ▸

Gaming Partners International announced that it has completed delivery of its casino furniture, casino chips and associated gaming products for the opening of River City Casino, located in St. Louis, Missouri.

GPI provided the River City Casino with its associated table game equipment, which included GPI’s Paulson line of gaming chips, as well as precision dice, table layouts, roulette wheels and table game accessories.

The company supplied all of the casino’s gaming tables, as well as the pit podiums, security podiums and host podiums. All of the furniture was custom-built to accommodate River City’s design and operational requirements.  

Peacock Bros announced the distribution of the new UPM Raflatac freezer-proof RFID tag, designed to operate within conditions reaching temperatures down to -40° C.

The tags provide a white synthetic face which can be printed over with an RFID thermal transfer label printer for encrypting and printing user readable information. ▸

Alien Technology announced its new Gen2 reader, the ALR-9900+, with performance and feature improvements over its predecessor, the ALR-9900.

The ALR-9900+ supersedes previous regional-specific readers with an operational frequency band ranging from 866MHz to 954MHz. The ALR-9900+ also supports standard and extended electronic product code Gen2 commands as well as custom Higgs-3 commands and features, including extended memory and the enhanced security and authentication feature, dynamic authentication. ▸

CDO Technologies and Emerson & Cuming Microwave Products have announced an RFID partnership that will intermingle CDO Technologies’ experience in design and implementation of RFID solutions with Emerson & Cuming’s engineering of radio frequency materials.

The partnership will make its debut at the 8th annual AFCEA Belvoir Industry Days Conference in National Harbor, Maryland where the two will present RFID hardware, software and tagging solutions for the defense and military industry.  

I.D. Systems announced that Royal Freight has signed a five-year agreement for its VeriWise trailer management solution.

Royal Freight will initially equip 750 dry van trailers with VeriWise technology for protecting custom’s cargo, in addition to managing and tracking its entire fleet. ▸