White Papers
Each month, RFID Journal receives numerous white paper submissions from outside experts. We read each paper carefully and select the most informative articles. Please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of facts or claims in these papers.
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most recent white papers
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RFID Technology Selection for Waste-Management Applications
Published June 2009Texas Instruments' Josh Wyatt and J.A. Gouldbourne offer an overview of RFID opportunities in the waste-management industry, to help those in that sector to make short- and long-term decisions regarding RFID implementation. (23 pages)
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Maximizing Waste Management Efficiency Through RFID
Published June 2009Texas Instruments' Josh Wyatt explores how technology is playing a vital role in waste hauling operations, how the pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) system works, and how the application of low-frequency RFID is making a positive impact on the way communities address waste management.
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Santa Fe Optical Thwarts Theft With RFID
Published June 2009The retailer, which offers designer eyeglass frames to its clients in Austin, Texas, is employing an RFID solution from Electronic Inventory Solutions and Avery Dennison to reduce theft within its store. The RFID system has also enabled the firm to decrease its inventory-taking time by 80 percent.
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Client Case Study: Wi-Fi RFID
Published June 2009Rush Tracking Systems explains how one of its clients, a global automobile manufacturer, deployed a Wi-Fi RFID system to manage finished goods inventory at dealer sites, in order to reduce financial losses due to increased credit cycles, order fulfillment cycle delays and a lack of visibility into sales and receipts. (6 pages)
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Printed Electronics and Thin Printed Batteries: Powering a World of Product Innovation
Published June 2009Blue Spark explores the capabilities, potential markets and applications of thin printed carbon-zinc battery technology, as well as the advantages printed batteries have over traditional coin or button power cells. (8 pages)
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AS5678: Progress in Spec 2000 for RFID Use in Aerospace and Defense
Published June 2009ADR Advisors' Jim Del Rossi, Boeing's Ken Porad, Susan Jordan and Daryl Remily, and Sun Microsystems' Chris Meier and Andy Brown provide a brief context of RFID in the aerospace and defense sector, as well as the specifics of Spec 2000 and the requirements and tests unique to RFID usage in that industry, with an emphasis on testing and qualification of passive RFID tags for parts tracking, and the implications of life-limited parts. (12 pages)
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RFID and Mobile
Published June 2009Take Enterprise Services' Rajiv Rangan explains how mobile RFID solutions can enable unique RFID use cases not possible with fixed interrogators, highlights requirements and considerations for building mobile RFID applications, and explores how to simplify the development of such applications to be reader- and platform-independent. (5 pages)
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RFID Romances the Stone
Published May 2009RFID project consultant Nitin Vyas discusses a successful application of radio frequency identification in tracking inventories and real-time locations of natural stone slabs and bundles, in order to reduce labor costs and improves the operational efficiency of a warehouse.
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Implementing Wireless and RFID Technology in the Oil Field
Published April 2009Konrad Konarski (Merlin Concepts & Technology), Sam Falsa (Shipcom Wireless), Ben Zoghi, Ph.D., (Texas A&M University) and Paul Younan (BMO Nesbitt Burns) explore how deploying a system combining wireless technologies with radio frequency identification in the oil industry can prove to be a cost-saving decision in times of economic downturn.
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Smart Shop Floor—A Case Study of an RFID-Enabled Metal Tube Manufacturing Process
Published April 2009B. Venkatalakshmi, P. Vijayalakshmi and S. Manjula of the RFID & Sensors Lab at Velammal Engineering College in Chennai, India, demonstrate a case study involving the monitoring of work-in-progress regarding materials in a metal tube manufacturing unit.
