I'm constantly impressed by the level of innovation in the RFID tag arena as more applications drive the development of specialised tags and the arrival of new tags drives new applications.

We've just started with two new ranges of tags that are getting some interest from our users. Firstly we now have access to some ATEX compliant tags which are suitable for use in environments where there is an explosive atmosphere. Since many manufacturing processes, especially in the petrochemical industries, have this form of troublesome environment these tags will extend the areas in which we can deploy solutions.

The second range of tags is adding to our range of tamper detection offerings. There are many applications for RFID in the area of validation of assets, these tags make the range of possibilities wider, adding the ability to detect tampering without destroying the data on the tag. It will be interesting to report on some of the applications for these down stream.

Blimey, a whole month since my last post! I can't even claim to being off on holiday so we'll just have to put it down to idleness, I guess.

I've been working to upgrade our web site and that seems to soak up a fair bit of time and attention but it looks like the new design is more or less agreed so we should be able to get going on editting the content fairly soon. One of the things I'm hoping to do is to make the solutions area a whole lot better so we can let folk learn more about the real value they can get out of this technology.

There seems to be a number of projects kicking up in the automotive arena at the moment - tracking vehicles one way or another, either pure RFID or RFID and ANPR in collaboration. Do I sense the green shoots of emerging from recession? Well, don't ask me! If you want the blog for guesses on the economy you'd be better off trying Robert Peston's than mine.