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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Track-and-Trace Solutions for the Logistics Supply Chain
Published January 2012Consumer satisfaction with a company's product quality is important, but the service that firm provides before and after a sale is equally vital—though it's often overlooked as benefiting the bottom line. Providing efficient tracking and tracing of products enhances a company's image. Sato explains how track-and-trace solutions, including software and automatic-identification technologies, such as bar-coding and RFID, are reliable and effective in ensuring the efficient delivery of materials and components to a business and its customers. (3 pages)
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Health-Care Market Secrets
Published January 2012SATO America offers tips for how to break into the expanding health-care market, and discusses several products reflecting the range of automated data-collection and RFID applications in that sector. (4 pages)
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Track-and-Trace Solutions for the Manufacturing Industry
Published January 2012Manufacturers must frequently adhere to mandates required by the private sector and governments. In this document, SATO America discusses the pharmaceutical and food industries' specific mandates for ensuring consumer safety, and explains why track-and-trace solutions, including bar-coding and RFID technologies, must be implemented in order to ensure the integrity of drugs moving from manufacturers to consumers, and to improve stakeholders' productivity and profitability. (4 pages)
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Track-and-Trace Solutions for the Health-care and Pharmaceutical Industries
Published December 2011Counterfeit medicine is a growing problem worldwide. Consumer and patient safety is crucially important within the health-care and pharmaceutical industries, as is the eroding bottom lines of many drug companies due to the infiltration of bogus medications into the supply chain. SATO America explains why track-and-trace solutions, including bar-coding and RFID technologies, should be implemented in order to ensure the integrity of pharmaceuticals moving from manufacturer to consumer, as well as improve productivity and profitability. (3 pages)
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Mobile Near Field Communication (NFC) Tap 'n Go: Keep it Secure and Private
Published December 2011Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D., the information and privacy commissioner of Ontario, Canada, explores Near Field Communication (NFC), a short-range wireless technology that allows mobile devices to actively interact with passive physical objects and other active mobile devices, thereby connecting the physical world to mobile services. This paper discusses NFC and its capabilities to potential users and the public, the potential privacy and security risks, how some risks are presently being met, and considerations for engineers and developers of NFC applications to embed additional security and privacy measures into the design of applications that utilize NFC capabilities. (22 pages)
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Item-level RFID Tagging and the Intelligent Apparel Supply Chain
Published December 2011When used throughout the apparel supply chain, item-level RFID provides an intelligence-rich environment that enables businesses to better transport goods, predict demand, efficiently promote stock, avoid markdowns and drive revenue and profit margins. This white paper, from Motorola Solutions, provides an overview of item-level RFID tagging in the apparel supply chain, explains the evolution of the technology and details the key benefits when utilized by retailers, distribution and logistics providers and manufacturers. (14 pages)
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Getting Started With UHF RFID Solutions: The Technology, Applications and Benefits
Published December 2011RFID can provide constant and effort-free identification, location and tracking information. This white paper, from Motorola, outlines the technology, applications and benefits, providing users with increased visibility into the inventory and movement of assets, goods and products. (16 pages)
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The Commercial Identity Verification (CIV) Credential—Leveraging FIPS 201 and the PIV Specifications: Is the CIV Credential Right for You?
Published October 2011The Smart Card Alliance explains how enterprises can take advantage of FIPS 201 (a set of technical standards and issuance policies that create the federal infrastructure required to deploy and support an identity credential that can be used and trusted across all federal agencies) and the PIV credential specifications, to implement a standards-based identity credentialing program. This white paper discusses benefits, best practices and technical requirements, and provides a set of reference documents to assist corporations in establishing a secure, reliable, electronically verifiable identity program. (26 pages)
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RFID in Imaging and Printing Supply Chain Management
Published October 2011Edmilson C. Moreira and José Wagner de O. Bezerra, of the Instituto Atlântico, in Brazil, provide a feasibility analysis of RFID, for use in conducting item-level inventories of ink cartridges and toners. In order to improve supply chain management and availability for companies in the printing and imaging business, an RFID-enabled cabinet system was developed as a proof-of-concept, to investigate the possibility of tracking those supplies via RFID. The authors summarize the performance results of this solution. (7 pages)
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Amreyah Cimpor Cement Co. Implements RFID-Powered SLV Cement Solution
Published October 2011Cachapuz Bilanciai Group discusses how it deployed its RFID-based SLV Cement solution at Amreyah Cimpor Cement Co., in Egypt, enabling the company to automatically manage its weighing, logistics and dispatching operations. (9 pages)
