Under the terms of the agreement, AquiTec’s SCM/400tm and SCM/etm product suites will be integrated with the Vocollect Talkman terminal - a user-wearable, wireless, web-based speech interface that streamlines fulfillment and distribution operations. The integrated solution will use audio instructions to direct activities of warehouse and distribution centre workers, and allow these workers to use spoken responses to provide data directly back to AquiTec’s products. It will work alongside AquiTec’s Radio Frequency functionality to support real-time inventory.

RedPrairie and RadiantWave are already working together on a number of mobile asset management projects involving RedPrairie's newly released DLx® MRM mobile resource management system. The combined capabilities of RedPrairie and RadiantWave enable customers to utilize RFID technology to accurately identify, manage and track physical assets, information and
personnel.

Standards - EPCglobal has announced that it expects to have the next generation protocol, now called the "UHF Generation 2 Foundation Protocol" approved by fall of this year. The protocol will provide a common protocol for a number of different classes of tags and will provide better performance. EPCglobal announced that, once this next generation protocol is finalized, it will begin work on developing a suitable international standard by working with the appropriate ISO committees.