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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Smart Posters
Published April 2011The NFC Forum examines how to use Near Field Communication (NFC) tags and readers to create interactive experiences that benefit both consumers and businesses. This white paper, written by forum members from across the NFC ecosystem, provides creators with an easy guide to understanding what NFC smart posters are, what is required in developing them and how to avoid common obstacles. (25 pages)
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Inventory Intelligence: Unlocking Omnichannel Retailing and the Future of the Store
Published April 2011Omnichannel retailing adds the flexibility of cross-channel and mobile shopping to the revenue- and loyalty-building capabilities of the face-to-face retail experience, and can also offer opportunities to build deeper shopper relationships—or risk ending them, if availability promises are unmet. In this white paper, Tyco examines the advantages inherent to the store environment, and discusses how retailers can best utilize RFID, bar codes and other electronic technologies. (10 pages)
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On-Demand Color RFID Label and Tag Printing
Published April 2011Companies of various sizes and types often need on-demand or short runs of full-color customized product labels. Primera Technology explains how its LX400 and LX900 color label printers can be used to produce professional, photo-quality RFID labels for use on a wide variety of products. (5 pages)
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High-Memory RFID for Aerospace, Manufacturing, MRO and Remote Asset Management
Published March 2011Xerafy examines high-memory RFID tags, applications that can utilize this type of tagging, and the advantages that can be gained by integrating high-memory tags into such applications as maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) and asset management.
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Tips for RFID Smart Label Printing/Encoding
Published March 2011Accurate RFID encoding is critical to every deployment. If a printer-encoder fails to function properly, errors can propagate throughout an entire supply chain. Zebra Technologies offers a set of tips to help end users get more from their smart label printing system, by improving reliability, minimizing operator intervention, reducing wasted labels, preventing encoding and printing errors, and yielding a greater number of usable labels per media roll. (8 pages)
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The Benefits of Using Rigorously Tested Routines from Numerical Libraries
Published March 2011Rob Meyer, the CEO of the Numerical Algorithms Group, discusses areas of RFID research and development involving computationally intensive mathematical and statistical methods, particularly when time to market for new products is a key concern. This white paper provides a framework for understanding how commercially available numerical libraries can provide a powerful tool for managing the challenges of using radio frequency identification technologies. (7 pages)
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Temperature Management and the Perishable Cold Chain
Published March 2011Cold-chain optimization for perishable foods is becoming increasingly important. Every year, more than half of the food produced globally is lost, wasted or discarded as a result of inefficiencies in the human-managed food chain. Intelleflex explains how companies can use RFID technologies to improve quality, shelf-life and revenues via pallet-level monitoring. (7 pages)
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RFID for High-Temperature and Demanding Applications
Published March 2011RFID continues to expand past supply chains to more demanding applications in manufacturing, health care, pharmaceuticals, automotive and rugged asset tracking. In this white paper, Xerafy addresses applications in which RFID tags face high temperatures, such as autoclave processes, harsh cleaning cycles and automotive manufacturing processes. This document introduces an RFID-in-metal tag family, the X II Series, that allows the implementation of a tag directly onto an asset early in the production process, thereby providing management with improved tracking information. (5 pages)
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The Cloud and RFID: Making Deployments Seamless
Published March 2011Terso Solutions' Mark Sehmer and Nathan Pleshek discuss the use of radio frequency identification and cloud computing (Internet-based computing utilizing shared resources, including hardware, software and services, on an on-demand and as-needed basis). By "embracing the cloud," the authors assert, enterprises can deploy RFID much faster, while avoiding many costly upfront infrastructure expenses required for pre-cloud systems. (7 pages)
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Near Field Communication (NFC) Technology and Measurements
Published March 2011Rohde & Schwarz's Roland Minihold offers an overview of Near Field Communication (NFC)—a short-range wireless connectivity technology that evolved from a combination of existing contactless identification and interconnection technologies—and its uses, as well as RF measurements on NFC units, and shows some examples of measurement results. (24 pages)
