Coca-Cola uses RFID machine

Coca-Cola has developed a hi-tech soft drink dispenser that will soon find its way into US fast food restaurants in California, Georgia, and Utah, reports Daily Tech.

The machine is called the Freestyle drink dispenser and the first restaurants to get the machine will be McDonald's and Burger King.

Freestyle will be Coca-Cola's front-line business intelligence tool that will send back massive amounts of consumption data from all over the US and around the world using RFID technology.

FileTrail, a provider of records management software and RFID solutions, has partnered with BookFactory, a manufacturer of engineering notebooks for scientific applications, states RFID Tech.

The new notebooks will be embedded with RFID tags, enabling the monitoring of their location and movement via any desktop computer using FileTrail's browser-based tracking system.

The system is intended to monitor notebooks as they change hands between lab personnel and enabling users to quickly locate a particular notebook.

The American University of Sharjah and dozens of other universities in the United Arab Emirates are placing RFID tags on the diplomas they issue, to ensure the validity of the documents, says RFID Journal.

The RFID application, currently being rolled out, will be employed by 50 universities throughout the country and roughly 15 000 students, and will then be added to as needed, according to Moosa Eisa Al Amri, the chairman of Amricon, the company providing the solution to the university.

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research recommends that the universities adopt Amricon's solution, enabling them to issue diplomas fitted with adhesive RFID labels which prevent unauthorised individuals from encoding the label's RFID tags.