This issue looks at BP’s use of wireless sensors to monitor assets, the use of RFID in the airplane manufacturing industry, how to develop an RFID strategy based on whether a company uses it as a disruptive or sustaining innovation, and whether RFID will lead to widespread unemployment.
ABI Research’s RFID Quarterly Service released this week indicates that tag availability has been added to the list of concerns confronting RFID adopters.
A new report by BIGresearch says more than a quarter of the U.S. population knows what RFID is and has a balanced view of its potential benefits and privacy risks.
At the Smart Card Alliance conference, Richard Clarke and others emphasize the role RFID can play to improve security and the need to address public concerns about the technology.
ITA funds alliance to grow Latin American smart card market; Willow announces integration software for RFID; Georgia tollway authority buys TransCore passive tags; new Unibar bar code software supports RFID.
In the final part of this Special Report, authors Brad Sokol and Sapan Shah continue to make the case for a how their “micro-modular” approach can deliver a healthy return on investment.
Using RFID to allow wireless payments, the MYbi Card hangs from a key chain or cell phone and carries amounts of as little as $3.50.
The battery maker is working with its third-party logistics provider to meet Wal-Mart’s mandate for RFID tagging beginning in January 2005.
Systems integrator ODIN Technologies tests the performance of eight UHF tags in a benchmark report for end users.
Last month’s announcement by the pharmaceutical industry that it had successfully completed its trial to test RFID tagging highlights the particulars of drug production and distribution.
RFID represents such potential to optimize business processes that many would assert it is a fundamental business revolution.
Advanced Research Co. has launched an application to let automakers better track spare parts used to maintain their manufacturing systems.