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Like many other nascent technologies, RFID has improved with age, writes BWeek. Excerpts with edits & comments:RFID has become more reliable and less costly. Boeing says its RFID system works 99.8% of the time, failing to read just 21 tags out of more than 18,000 in six months. That's negligible compared to the occurrence of human error when deliveries are entered manually. RFID system costs

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Infoworld has an interesting article with indicative metrics for returns on RFID investment - though the actual details of solutions,investments, savings and returns computed are not revealed - a peek into process efficiencies makes interesting reading. For Gillette, RFID has improved order processing, streamlined inventory management systems, and increased shipment accuracy, providing

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Researchers are envisioning mobile, RFID-guided robots taking on tasks such as helping families tend to disabled relatives and assisting in factory inventories. Secom, a security company in Japan, has already built a machine, called Robot X - equipped with a camera, the robot relays live video to a remote security facility. When a stranger approaches one of the children, the robot, controlled

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We recently covered the development Mobile phones as tracking agentsJohn Dvorak, a contrarian but insightful thinker writes,"Instead of using bar codes that would be monitored by the box, we are now seeing usage of RFID tags on all the foods.A complete inventory would be displayed on an LCD panel on the front of the refrigerator".This looks so much easier to read through a long list than to

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(Via Infoworld)The generic term RFID refers to more than just the cheap tags that companies slap onto pallets to comply with retailers' edicts. Several types of RFID systems exist. Wal-Mart requires passive RFID tags. Ephraim Schwartz points out that the "very best" for enterprise needs may be active RFID tags and the infrastructure that supports them. Passive tags are not powered, so they

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(Via Iweek) DHL Plans RFID Tags For Every Package It Ships -With a goal to gain tighter control of shipments, cut costs, and improve operating performance by reducing paperwork and data collection, DHL International GmbH this month starts developing a global IT infrastructure that will let it affix a radio-frequency identification tag on every package it ships by 2015. DHL's plan to tag every

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(Via Forbes)Symbol Technologies,announces the first radio-frequency identification reader that supports Microsoft's Windows CE. The move should reassert Symbol's market dominance in RFID and give Microsoft a foothold in the small but growing market.Symbol, which made its name as a maker of bar-code readers, has pegged its growth on RFID technology, from its acquisition of Matrics a year ago to

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ITU-T has recently published a technical paper on radio frequency identification (RFID) and opportunities for its use in mobile telecommunication services. RFID enables data to be transmitted by a tiny portable device, called a tag, which is read by an RFID reader and processed according to the needs of a particular application.Many experts see RFID as an enabler for ubiquitous computing 135-

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(Via RFID weblog) The RFID industry like other emerging industries shall see ore opportunities and dollars not in the hardware side, but,rather,in services. The IDTECHEX view is the emergence of an ecosystem - that shall see hardware companies, system integrators & niche industry players aligning themselves in this fast growing but importantly emerging but rapidly changing ecosystem. The RFID

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(Via Knowledge@wharton) Wharton marketing professor Peter S. Fader sees the drawing of shopping cart paths - seemingly random lines represent a new dataset showing the paths taken by individual shoppers in an actual grocery store. The mechanism to collect this unique shopping data is called PathTracker. These RFID tags were placed on the bottom of every grocery cart in a supermarket in the

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Just came across this interesting fact on RFID deployment : - 90% of manufacturing RFID projects will focus on data integration- 60% of manufacturers surveyed by Datamonitor are already working on RFID projects. - 90% of manufacturers surveyed said their next RFID project will be based on systems and data integration.- 90% of IT executives surveyed said grid computing was of no relevance

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(Via RFID Journal) Mark Roberti writes, Hospitals are discovering that RFID is the right prescription for many problems. Mark writes,When deployed properly, RFID can deliver many benefits simultaneously. In the warehouse, RFID can be deployed to increase inventory visibility, reduce labor costs and cut shipping and receiving errors all at the same time. The Jacobi Medical Center in New York

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Via(RFID Times)RFID tags may not be seen in airports for baggage tagging – due to high costs.We may see some innovative solutions like luggage tagging traceable through the internet like the one form globalbagtag.com.Supplychainreview.com writes,The promise of electronic tracking for luggage is still very much a thing of the future as cash strapped airlines are reluctant to invest in the costly

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The conventional wisdom is RFID solutions are to be used to track small items,frequently used items or items which are parts that need to go into a larger product for optimising movements. Nope - here's a case of RFID technology being deployed for tracking marine containers as these move through ports. Informationweek reports,Marine terminal operator SSA Marine is testing a new cargo-container

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(Via Newscientist)Cases of wrong mix and match in IVF treatment have happened in the world in the past. Excerpts from an interesting article:So white couples have black children , vice versa etc.The UK’s regulatory body, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is considering labelling all embryos, eggs and sperm with barcodes or electronic ID tags.The idea is that an alarm will

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We recently covered in this blog,RFID at the core of business processes.RFID is becoming the supply chain infrastructure for all major supply chains. In the next five years all supply chain networks would have to embrace RFID in a big way. This has attracted the usual cast of enterprise application vendors. AMR writes, "But traditional automation vendors aren’t quite ready to cede control of

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We recently covered Stephanie Stahl's perspective RFID at core of business processes and also covered -" Barely a day goes by that we don't hear about another application or service or middleware or chip reader that has come onto the market".Gene Alvarez,VP of technology research services at the Meta Group, writes about RFID adaption status and also discusses the approach towards RFID

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Ronald E. Quirk, Jr. and Stacia J. Borrello have come out with a well researched article on RFID deployment and regulatory conformance requirements. The key ideas covered include:RFID deployment is expected to be substantial. Many market research firms estimate that there will be nearly a tenfold increase in supply chain RFID use over the next five years. The total global market for all RFID

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Ray Lane, of Kleiner Perkins writes, More than a change in pricing or business model, software as a service is an inevitable, fundamental shift in enterprise software culture. Excerpts from the powerful article with edits and my comments added: Software as a service is transforming the IT industry. It’s more than a new way of pricing or a business model change, it will drive a whole new mindset

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(Via Smartmobs). As animals are loaded onto trucks, an onboard reader collects a time and date stamp,location information using GPS technology, and identification numbers for the site and each individual animal. The data is sent via cell phone to a database kept by Kansas animal health authorities. If the cattle are loaded or unloaded in a remote location without cellular service,the information

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( Via Informationweek) Launched in October 2003, Radar Golf has developed a U.S. Golf Association-conforming golf ball that contains a radio-frequency tag.The company's Ball Positioning System (BPS) technology enables a golfer to find a "lost" golf ball via a RadarGolf Handheld device. The handheld device "beeps" when pointed toward the ball. Detection range is 30-100 feet. BPS combines

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It is well known to people in the industry that the airbus maintenance facility in the changi airport is RFID enabled for quite some time. Now Airbus is taking to RFID to the skies. Airbus A380 double-decker aircraft,the world's largest and seats 555 passengers, will have passive RFID chips on removable parts such as life vests to help ease maintenance processes. Informationweek reports,10,000

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The latest RFID survey of 669 supply chain and IT executives from Larstan Business Reports suggest the following: - Companies that are not well-automated may reap the most dramatic gains by deploying RFID, because they will realize process efficiency, labor savings and accuracy gains that currently are enjoyed by more automated companies already using tracking technologies such as bar coding

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It is a dream situation when RFID is deployed using mobile technology -For two reasons principal reasons amongst many: A. Due to Ubiquity of the mobile - we recently wrote,mobile phone users constitute 25% of world's population and Mobile Revolution Is Next Only To The Internet Revolution. B.Due to the ease with which RFID can be deployed - If RFID can piggyback on mobile technology, the ease of

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Casino owners may become the newest members of the RFID bandwagon. They show a keen interest in the technology as a way to trackcustomers from the moment they hit the gaming tables. And the purchase of two patents by a large manufacturer shows they will not miss out on the 21st century technology. Shuffle Master, a gaming supply company headquartered, in Las Vegas, Nevada, recently purchased two

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NYTimes writes, an year and a half ago,Wal-Mart served notice that it expected its top 100 suppliers to be shipping goods to it with new radio tagging technology by Jan.1, 2005. Excerpts with edits and my comments added : Wal-Mart's experience so far has served as a reminder that creating the future is not all that easy. With Jan. 1 just days away, the technology is not yet ready to meet the

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(via RFID-Weblog) ABI Research has recently come with a report on RFID technology: "What Isn't Going To Happen in 2005" (complimentary registration required). Excerpts with edits and my comments added : Entire enterprises and global supply chains will NOT be rebuilt by RFID in 2005.RFID technology continues to make steady, progressive headway into consumer goods and retail deployments. 2004 was

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Recently we covered EPC adopting Gen2 standards and also covered the perspective Full-Scale RFID Could Take a Decade. While intense activities are picking up in the RFID space, Dennis Gaughan of AMRResearch writes about Future Prospects Of RFID Middleware Vendors. Excerpts with edits and my comments added: In the past few years, mobile middleware emerged that provided a conduit between the

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The register reports that european plans for biometric passports and visas have been derailed by, er, European plans for biometric passports and visas. A technical committee set up to report to the Council of Ministers on the implementation of a uniform visa format has concluded that collisions between contactless chips in a passport would make the current plans unworkable, reports Statewatch.

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Informationweek writes, beginning next year,more and more enterprises will look to RFID to get the most mileage and value out of assets that can't easily be tracked with bar codes. Over time, their efforts will yield operating-cost reductions and process improvements. Excerpts with slight edits and my comments added: For enterprises seeking increased utilization and management of

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EPCglobal announces the much anticipated completion of the UHF Generation 2 air interface protocol as an EPCglobal standard. With the Generation 2 standard now in place, technology providers will create products that will meet the requirements of suppliers, manufacturers, and end users; and industries as a whole can drive EPC implementation with standards-based equipment. The protocol is the

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( Via ITMedia in Japanese ) Hitachi announced on December 6 that they developed "RFID sensors" that sense temperature, ion concentration, and flexure of liquid substances and transmit data via wireless communication. Potential application areas include healthcare, bio sciences, and supply chains. Communication ranges are 10mm, 40mm or 75mm. The company claims that their RFID sensors are higly

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Informationweek declares Walmart's IT team as the IT TEAM OF THE YEAR 2004. Whats special about walmart's IT team. Excerpts( with edits and my comments added): Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s I.T. team is just a couple of weeks away from the first wave of suppliers participating in its ambitious radio-frequency identification project. When RFID-tagged pallets and cases begin moving en masse into three

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Informatioweek writes, Radio-frequency identification technology could make after-hours deliveries possible, allowing store personnel to concentrate on customers. Excerpts( with edits and my views added): In retail, good service is paramount for customer loyalty. But when a supplier is knocking at the back door with a delivery during business hours, sometimes a retail clerk has to momentarily

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Jacqueline Emigh of eWeek reports but full-fledged RFID deployment across outbound shipments, inbound deliveries and manufacturing for a whole product lineup could easily take not just one year, but a full decade or more, according to one early user. As the year 2004 winds down, many product suppliers are looking to launch their first implementations of RFID sometime in 2005. But full-fledged

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Express Computers publishes an article by Dr.Sanjay Sarma CTO of oatsystems. Dr Sarma writes, what would have been the stuff of science fiction, RFID or radio frequency identification technology is swiftly turning this vision into reality. Excerpts: Imagine if your microwave oven could read the instructions on a packet of frozen food and cook it accordingly. Imagine sitting in your office

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A well written article excerpted from NYTimes by CRM Buyerabout RFID - I would think that anyone knowing about RFID - observing at a distance RFID,- Simple Concept Hobbled By Daunting Complexity Excerpts: Like investing or hitting a tennis ball, using radio scanners to wirelessly identify consumer products seems simple in concept, but in reality, it is dauntingly complex.The biggest challenge

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RFID Journal has published an excellent article about Global logistics service provider DHL Solutions Fashion offering the French fashion industry a way to test and facilitate shipments of individually tagged garments. Excerpts on this article on a noticeable RFID based solution: DHL Solutions Fashion, a global logistics service provider for clothing manufacturers and retailers, is offering

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Informationweek has published an excellent article about global logistics supplier UPS adoption of RFID technology Excerpts: United Parcel Service of America Inc. is closely monitoring radio-frequency identification technology. UPS has several tests under way and says its package-tracking processes will leverage RFID as soon as customers want it. The company's RFID efforts are part of a

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Chief Executive magazine has published an article titled, " How CEOs are grappling with the breakthrough tracking technology ".Typically, CEOs don’t want to get into the nitty-gritty of technology like this, but the problem with something as radical as RFID, CEO’s need to understand the technology and strategise to derive differentiated competitive advantages to their business. In Part 1, we

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Chief Executive magazine has published an article titled, " How CEOs are grappling with the breakthrough tracking technology ".Typically, CEOs don’t want to get into the nitty-gritty of technology like this, but the problem with something as radical as RFID, CEO’s need to understand the technology and strategise to derive differentiated competitive advantages to their business. Excerpts: By

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Strategy + Business says based on survey results that,despite excitement over RFID technology and its future promise, most companies currently lack a business case to adopt it anytime soon. Excerpts: Major retailers, such as Wal-Mart, Target, and Best Buy in the United States and Metro Group in Germany, have established full-fledged programs in which some or all of their suppliers will be

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RFID weblog says,Third-party logistics providers have to get on board with RFID to meet their customers' demands. Excerpts: Third-Party Logistics Providers Moving Forward & Are Beginning to Show Signs of Maturity, But Radio Frequency Identification Beckons as a Challenge & Opportunity. Third-party logistics (3PL) providers have expanded their service offerings well beyond transportation

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ACMQueue has come out with an issue devoted to RFIDs. In an article written by Roy Want,Intel Research, RFID is equated to magic and introduced as an electronic tagging technology that allows an object, place, or person to be automatically identified at a distance without a direct line-of-sight, using an electromagnetic challenge / response exchange. Typical applications include labeling

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Here's an interesting article on how Legoland Denmark is using RFID on wristbands to help parents keep track of their children.ach season, Legoland Denmark welcomes 1.6 million guests, and about 1,600 of them end up getting lost. This spring, the theme park adopted an AeroScout RFID location solution, offering parents use of an RFID bracelet for their children at a nominal fee. If their

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This brief article in VNUNET says, Potential adopters of radio frequency identification (RFID) spend too much time speculating about the arrival of cheaper tags when they should be evaluating the business benefits of the technology, Gartner has warned."RFID technology holds exciting opportunities for almost every business, But rather than ask at what price does RFID become effective, retailers

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News.com writes, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a favorite of warehouse operators and some retailers because of how easy product information stored on the chip can be transferred. Nokia said delivering product information to a mobile device using RFID can extend the technology "beyond the supply chain, and into customer service, merchandizing, marketing and brand management."For

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Peter Winer of Big Chief Partners , recently moderated a panel disscussion on RFID advances made by pureplay RFID players and generally better established but general IT players moving in from adjacent areas. The Pure Play Companies focus on: - Distributed networks connecting heterogeneous RFID readers and other collection devices; - Collect, correct, filter, aggregate large volumes of

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Bruce Schneier,the well known security expert warns against using RFID chips in passports. Countries whose citizens currently do not have visa requirements to enter the United States will have to issue passports that conform to the standard or risk losing their nonvisa status.These future passports, currently being tested, will include an embedded computer chip. This chip will allow the

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RFID weblog points to a link where a series of presentation slides used at recent EPCGlobal meet is made available. Indeed an impressive range of collection - best set of people and the top line organisations deploying RFID are sharing their perspective. Must read for all interested about deploying RFID solutions.

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(Via Informationweek) RFID tags may not be available in needed numbers to meet expected demand in the near future.The lengthy production cycle is probably the biggest culprit in the current shortage. It takes about 12 weeks to make the raw silicon, which is then sent to another company that sticks a tiny RFID antenna to it, adding four weeks to the process.Larger manufacturers such as EM

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Future Now points out to Mitubistshi service in the area of Photosensing RFID in for location area services.Wireless tags such as RFID (radio frequency identification) are becoming ubiquitous in inventory management. However, it is difficult to precisely locate the tags using a handheld device. This problem by using a hybrid of radio frequency and optical communication with the tag.The handheld

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( Via Roland Piquepaille.) A rfid based prototype of a smart watch that can warn you if you forget your wallet or your keys when leaving home has been built at university of washington.In the not-so-distant future, your wristwatch could stop you if you try to run out the door without the necessities you need for the day, like your keys, wallet or cell phone. At work, it could prompt you for

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Doug Lattner,chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting writes, RFID is no monster and the technology represents a genuine revolution.The long-term result easily outweighs the initial discomfort. We believe that the prescription for remaining vital and competitive for the next 10 years and beyond is embracing the best available RFID technology, not dismissing it or opting for cheaper, less efficient

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Although vendors and consultants alike have been shouting from the roof tops about RFID, the awareness of RFID need to improve says the Unisys survey reported by silicon.com. In the UK, even pharma seems to be embracing RFID quite slowly.In the US, where drug counterfeiting is more common, the pharmaceutical industry is leading from the front in driving uptake of RFID. The US Food and Drug

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Imagine carrying a card being valid for all the purposes; access control, shopping, travelling, different kinds of payments etc. 13,56 MHz technologies brings this dream to reality. This card technology offers a single portable device for transport, banking, purchases, administration and e-commerce accommodating both contact and contactless smart card interfaces. People with a DIF card can

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The impact radio-frequency identification has throughout an entire supply chain is top of mind for a number of companies experimenting with the technology. A group of business-technology executives from the U.S. Department of Defense, Michelin Tires, Cisco Systems, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Boeing, and Albertsons shared their experiences thus far at this week's EPC Global U.S.

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Om Malik points out to expanding list of digital disruptions in the field of movie industry,advertising, infotainment,operating systems, computing , communications etc. The quick-to-see highlights disruption mabe by Mpegs to DVD; PVRs to Ads; Internet to Infotainments Digital Cameras to Film Cameras Linux to commercial Operating Systems Network Computers to Monolithic systems Wirless & VoiP to

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Two emerging giants - China & India are moving at differet pace in adopting RFID technology. China is on top of the RFID revolution. The Chinese have been at the helm of the electronic and semiconductor revolution. They may also be at the top of the radio frequency identification (RFID) revolution, thanks to the 2008 Summer Olympics and Wal-Mart.The first is understandable. The Chinese

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Enterprises face dual 2005 deadlines relating to RFID and supply-chain data synchronization. Those that haven't moved forward with a product-information-management strategy will be under-prepared to realize RFID's value.A couple of key supply-chain imperatives are forcing many big companies to deal with two major issues concurrently--RFID and global data synchronization--while still conducting

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Distinctive systems once provided competitive barriers," Nicholas Carr says,..."But barriers have eroded as accessibility, affordability and standardization have increased," Carr adds. Don Tapscott counters by saying that IT can spark business model changes that can help companies gain strategic advantages over competitors. Nicholas Carr continues his passionate theme by saying that The economies

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Many companies across a variety of industries are either deploying radio frequency identification systems or plan to adopt the product-tracking technology.Concerns over the high cost and lack of good integration tools and standards remain a key concern. A lot of companies are working in deadline mode. Their chief concern is to comply with the mandates and to remain eligible as a supplier to these

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Moore’s law is at the core of the new RFID phenomenon where two things are guaranteed: The RFID chips will get smaller and cheaper; and as the technology gets more reliable, standards will emerge and proliferate in ways that could only have been imagined 30 or so years ago when early RFID pioneers started to experiment with the technology. Dr. Moore’s observation of a generation ago makes it a

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The Chinese have been at the helm of the electronic and semi-conductor revolution. They may also be at the top of the radio frequency identification (RFID) revolution, thanks to the 2008 Summer Olympics and Wal-Mart.The Chinese government has plans of showcasing the Chinese achievements to the world through the Olympics in 2008China has become the factory to the world. Its manufacturers supply

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Rajat Paharia tracks the evolution of various forms of tracking devices that seemed to hold promise in the run up to the full blown RFID RFID devices that we see currently.Rajat here outlines a framework to evaluate RFID applications.This is worth examing,as it is important that a universally acceptable framework should evolve to assess impact of RFID applications.Several experiments with

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I intend to post RFID related developments in this blogsite regularly - Sadagopan

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