- COVER STORY
Listen Up, Laggards!It's time to get up to speed on RFID, before your competitors leave you in the dust.
- PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS
Solutions for Automotive, Health Care and RetailThe Sensor Tadpole tag helps automobile manufacturers ensure their vehicles are watertight; VueTrack-UDI enables medical device manufacturers to comply with the FDA's identification mandate and achieve internal benefits; Clarity 3.X software lets retailers manage enterprisewide inventory processes more effectively.
- VERTICAL FOCUS
Ground ControlGas, electric and water companies slowly adopt RFID to reduce costs and improve services.
- EDITOR'S NOTE
- Fast Followers, It's Time
Waiting until your main competitors have begun using RFID will put you several years behind them.
- OUT IN FRONT
- Reading Tags in Space
Texas State University engineering students are designing an RFID system that could read multiple tags simultaneously.
- OUT IN FRONT
- RF-Enabling Mussels
Mollusks provide scientists with data about the amount of nitrate in rivers.
- PERSPECTIVE
- How RFID Will Reach Mass Adoption
Solutions must become simpler to deploy and use, as well as more scalable.
- PERSPECTIVE
- RFID Adoption in Retail Gains Momentum
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the number of retailers deploying RFID solutions is accelerating.
- TUNED IN
- Retailers Must Reframe Their Thinking
If you build an omnichannel house without an RFID foundation, it will crumble.
- SOFTWARE SAVVY
- The Four Questions
What you must know before you begin an RFID project.
- HEALTH-CARE BEAT
- Managing Surgical Instruments
RFID can improve patient safety and deliver cost savings to hospitals.