DEPCO systems has conducted a rigorous market study to determine the best suited RFID middleware to our operations and reached a common agreement within our organization that NCR with their NCR TransitionWorksTM software platform has the best positioned AIDC product to supports our efforts presently and in the future.
Radio Frequency Identification or RFID, is a revolutionary technology that will allow many industries to embed radio frequency microchips into their products enabling intelligence at the edge of the corporation. This method of operation has proven throughout recent years to be most efficient in managing any industry supply chain, increasing security, improving efficiency and reducing the company's OPEX justifying a strong Return On Investment (ROI).
DEPCO systems will launch at the end of 2007 the first RFID system developed in Saudi Arabia unique in function and customized solely for regional corporate requirements using the NCR AIDC middleware. Following an in-depth market study conducted over a period of 6 months, DEPCO systems will initially target the valuable goods & services markets by aiming at our clients in the jewellery business and the banking sector.
The Open architecture adopted by NCR AIDC engine allows DEPCO systems R&D team to fully integrate our RFID ...   more »

By Todd Lewan
CityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself — until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms.
The “chipping” of two workers with RFIDs — radio frequency identification tags as long as two grains of rice, as thick as a toothpick — was merely a way of restricting access to vaults that held sensitive data and images for police departments, a layer of security beyond key cards and clearance codes, the company said.
“To protect high-end secure data, you use more sophisticated techniques,” Sean Darks, chief executive of the Cincinnati-based company, said. He compared chip implants to retina scans or fingerprinting. “There’s a reader outside the door; you walk up to the reader, put your arm under it, and it opens the door.”
Innocuous? Maybe.
But the news that Americans had, for the first time, been injected with electronic identifiers to perform their jobs fired up a debate over the proliferation of ever-more-precise tracking technologies and their ability to erode privacy in the digital age.
High-tech helper or Big Brother?
To some, the microchip was a wondrous invention — a high-tech helper that could ...   more »