March/April 2016
COVER STORY
It's time to get up to speed on RFID, before your competitors leave you in the dust.
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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 Retail
The 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 Control
Gas, electric and water companies slowly adopt RFID to reduce costs and improve services.
Columns
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.
Departments
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.