Newport Digital Tech becomes Lab Sponsor to the University of Arkansas RFID Research Center. The company also has a sales and R&D office in the area, near Walmart headquarters. …
… “The University of Arkansas RFID Research Center is committed to creating and extending knowledge in RFID utilization and to be an internationally recognized leader in RFID application research, said NPDT CTO and COO Weiling Tsao. Back in 2003, WalMart asked its top 100 suppliers to begin tagging products at the pallet and case level by January 2005. This program initiated an entire industry centered on production and application of RFID technology. The University and many industry-leading companies, now including NPDT, have joined forces to support a multidisciplinary, neutral, third-party research and testing facility, the RFID Research Center, a sub-unit of the Information Technology Research Institute(ITRI) at the University’s Sam M. Walton College of Business. ” …
Via Newport Digital Technologies: Sponsors University of Arkansas RFID Research Center


