Dubai International Airport

Thinfilm and British American Tobacco Global Travel

Thin Film Electronics ASA announced British American Tobacco Global Travel Retail as a new customer.

Dubai Airport Face Scanning Tunnels

To increase security and efficiency at Dubai International Airport, officials are installing a tunnel fitted with 80 facial recognition and iris scanning cameras.

Contactless Smart Card Orders Flood In

In the last few weeks alone, orders for well over US$100 million of contactless (ie RFID) smart cards and associated systems have been placed. The business is surging forward with the percentage of smart cards that are contactless rising to 16% of deliveries in 2007 after having been stuck at around 5% for the preceding twenty years. Learn more.

Significant RFID Roll-Outs in the Postal Sector

In 2007, approximately 650 billion articles will be sent through postal and courier systems around the world. After retail, the tagging of each postal item is the next largest potential market for RFID by volume of tags. There are numerous significant RFID roll-outs in this sector which are under publicized, and here Raghu Das from IDTechEx summarises the latest progress.