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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The Synchronized Distribution Supply Chain: Best Practices in Warehouse Management
Published July 2010Motorola examines how warehouse mobility can serve as the foundation of an enterprise-wide mobility, creating a collaborative information architecture that not only enables a leaner warehouse operation—but also a leaner, more profitable enterprise. (16 pages)
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What Is RFID Interoperability?
Published June 2010Ted Osinski, the director of MET Laboratories' RFID programs, and the manager of the Dash7 Alliance's certification program, discusses the components, economic impact and other issues of an interoperable RFID system, as well as Dash7 interoperability, how to develop a certification program architecture, and the benefits of Dash7 certification. (5 pages)
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Traceability in Retail—Reducing RFID Media Costs for Best Value
Published June 2010Retailers face enormous pressure to gain the most return from their business-process investments. RFID enables business intelligence throughout an organization's value chain to provide critical information for fast and accurate decision-making. Achieving the most value from RFID demands an innovative method for ensuring accuracy while shrinking the reoccurring costs of label media. This document from Zebra Technologies discusses the benefits item-level tagging brings to the retail industry, and how on-pitch printing and encoding solutions can boost RFID's value beyond the supply chain. (8 pages)
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The GS1 US Visibility Framework
Published June 2010GS1 US offers a standards-based approach that companies can use to identify, capture and share data throughout the value chain, whether they utilize ERP systems, supply chain management software, bar codes, RFID, mobile or wireless computers, database programs or Web-based information exchanges to improve visibility. (11 pages)
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Methodologies for Sharply Reducing Hospital-acquired Infections
Published June 2010Dynamic RFID Solutions discusses the spread of hospital-acquired infections, and explains how to combat the problem by promoting good hand hygiene via an automated, interactive electronic monitoring system utilizing RFID and infrared technologies. (7 pages)
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The Intelleflex XC3 Technology Platform: An Implementation of the Draft ISO Class 3 Standard
Published May 2010Intelleflex's new XC3 technology platform consists of chips, tags, reader modules, fixed interrogators and mobile readers. This white paper explores the technology's benefits, and also offers a technical discussion of the recently approved draft ISO 18000-6C BAP Class 3 standard on which it is based.
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IT Asset Management Using RFID
Published April 2010Companies in the financial services, telecommunications and other sectors use IT asset management to improve productivity and service. Support of global operations requires an IT infrastructure, including physical, electrical and HVAC (heating, ventilating and air conditioning). Jim Caudill, Xterprise's senior VP of marketing and strategy, explains how some IT departments are adopting business methodologies, such as RFID, to help manage their IT infrastructure for maximum business value.
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Physical Asset Management and IT Security
Published April 2010Information technology involves virtual assets and transactions, but security vulnerabilities may lurk in its physical foundations. Jim Caudill, Xterprise's senior VP of marketing and strategy, explains how identifying, tracking and managing risks to physical servers, storage devices and network hardware can help close security gaps that can not be addressed by electronic asset management. This document outlines RFID methods to integrate IT security across physical and virtual domains.
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The Novel Use of Information Technology in Military Medicine and Mass Casualty Situation Training
Published March 2010Jorma Jokela, a student at the University of Tampere, offers an academic dissertation on several novel information technologies, including short video clips, mobile medical information systems (IS) and RFID, which have become an essential part of education in the modern health-care field. In military medicine, there are special needs for novel technologies, especially when optimizing first aid and initial treatment in challenging field situations. Jokela's thesis studies the use of such technologies in the training of military medicine for mass-casualty scenarios. (126 pages)
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Using PNR as a New Approach to Enhancing RFID Channel Security Via Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)
Published March 2010Salman Altaf and Mumtaz A. Kamala, of the University of Bradford School of Computing, Information and Media, and Qudoos Yousuf, of Innovation North Leedsmet University, outline how retailers, manufacturers, hospitals, federal agencies and other organizations can use RFID to improve functionality and product quality, and maintain a good checks-and-balances system, without experiencing data security and privacy vulnerabilities. The authors discuss a proposed technique for preventing data leakage and providing protection against eavesdropping and interference, by spreading spectrum over the wideband, utilizing a suitable pseudorandom (PNR) code. (7 pages)
