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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Increase Visibility and Velocity With Real-Time Asset-Management Solutions
Published July 2009Zebra Enterprise Solutions explains how it assists public sector organizations in tracking and managing essential assets in a number of environments, including lean manufacturing; maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO); equipment and asset tracking; and flight line operations. This document also explains how the U.S. Army Depot at Tobyhanna, Pa., within a year of implementing automated identification and RFID technologies to locate disassembled parts at various stages of the refurbishing process, achieved near-real-time visibility into each item's status, saving an estimated $450,000 annually. (2 pages)
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Eliminate Seven Wastes from Your Supply Chain With Real-Time Asset-Management Solutions
Published July 2009Zebra Enterprise Solutions' David Phillips examines the impact of leveraging lean principles supported by the company's real-time asset-management solutions. This white paper identifies seven areas of manufacturing waste, and explains how such solutions can help to eradicate them. (10 pages)
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Analysis of Characteristics and Reliability of Smart Card Data in Metropolitan Seoul
Published July 2009The use of smart cards for fare payment in public transit has grown in Korea since their introduction in 1996; currently, the proportion of smart-card use in Seoul is more than 90 percent for buses and 75 percent for metros (urban railway systems). Jin-Young Park and Dong-Jun Kim of the Korea Transport Institute investigate the reliability of smart-card data, by comparing the number of Seoul metro station users indicated in smart-card data, with information obtained directly from the Seoul Metro Company. (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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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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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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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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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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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.
