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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Realizing the Real Benefits of Asset Tracking and Management Using the Latest Technologies
Published March 2010Using a combination of the latest technologies—RFID, GPS, mobile computing and Web-based applications—asset management can be undertaken reliably and rapidly in a wide array of applications. This white paper, from 4hSolutions Ltd., explores how end-to-end asset management, when implemented properly, can meet the needs of today's cost-conscious and mobile workforce.
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Archimedes Method and System for Tracking
Published February 2010Archimedes IP Corp. outlines its system for recording location information onto a tag, so that an item's movement history can be accessed without requiring communication with a central database. This system would allow the tracking of location histories for seaborn containers, thereby providing customs officials at the final destination with location information regarding a container's entire journey after it was sealed at the origination point.
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Integrating a Company Logo Into a Tag Antenna Design in RFID Applications
Published February 2010Tatung University's Chi-Fang Huang, Yueh-Ching Lin and Ming-Fu Kuo present a design idea for how a company's logo can be incorporated into an RFID tag antenna, in order to protect the intellectual property (IP) of that firm's tag antenna design. This white paper discusses both antenna design simulation and tag performance evaluation. (5 pages)
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Wonderware Mobile Solutions RFID Technology
Published January 2010Invensys Systems' Don Frieden explains the basics of RFID technology and outlines Wonderware, an integrated hardware and software system designed by his company to meet the needs of process industries, combining wireless handheld computers, software and RFID technology for data-collection and asset-management applications.
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Driving Costs Out and Efficiency In With Enterprise Bar-Code and RFID Label Management
Published January 2010TAKE Supply Chain discusses a scalable, rules-based bar-code label and RFID print-management platform that enables business users to effectively administer tagging output and compliance programs. By alleviating an IT staff of this burden, label compliance can be achieved at a lower cost and higher quality, thereby allowing an organization to be proactive in its use of auto-ID technology throughout the supply chain. (11 pages)
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Cross-Docking: Addressing the Technology Gap to Improve Visibility
Published January 2010Cross-docking can help company executives reduce inventory costs and trim delivery times. Traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology, however, does not offer the visibility and accountability to optimize cross-docking efficiency. TAKE Supply Chain's Jason Howton discusses the technology requirements of a next-generation cross-docking solution. (6 pages)
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Meeting the EPC RFID Mandates: Where to Begin
Published January 2010In this white paper, Weber Marking Systems, Inc., explains why, if bar codes and other automatic-identification technologies have helped to improve the efficiencies of data accuracy and real-time information acquisition, RFID is also necessary for optimizing the supply chain. (8 pages)
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Tag-on-Demand: The New Face of RFID
Published January 2010William Faulkner, president of Logopak Corp., discusses how the increased complexity of today's auto-ID environment can be addressed by the tag-on-demand model. Faulkner outlines the company's factory-floor printing and labeling system, the Logopak 920 PFR, which can label pallets on one to three sides using self-adhesive labels in large formats with scanner-readable bar codes coupled with clearly written dates and codes. The device was chosen for Metro Group's Future Store initiative, where RFID has reduced out-of-stocks by 9 to 14 percent, assuring a more consistent availability of goods for customers. (4 pages)
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Leveraging ERP for Supply Chain Execution
Published January 2010Companies considering supply chain execution systems to integrate shop-floor RF scanners and bar-coding within their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems face a fundamental decision: Which data model will serve as the primary system of record for manufacturing and distribution transactions? In this white paper, TAKE Supply Chain outlines the impact the choice of system architecture has on critical aspects of running a supply chain and maximizing an ERP investment. (7 pages)
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SmartDEGREE from TCS to Combat Certificate Malpractices
Published October 2009Tata Consultancy Services' Chandrashekar Mudraganam explains how to employ radio frequency identification to curb fake degree certificates issued by universities, which can pose a threat to the integrity of degree holders and educational institutions alike. TCS has successfully implemented this solution at the University of Hyderabad, in India, since 2007. (9 pages)
