Although 80 percent of respondents hadn’t heard of RFID or understood it prior to the survey, the majority said they would use an RFID-enabled checkout lane, especially if it meant spending less time waiting in line.
Most of the nation’s military branches have deployed the technology, which combines RFID and satellite communications, to track and manage supply shipments in the field.
At RFID Journal LIVE! 2007, the EPC standards body will conduct special preconference seminars focused on the basics of EPC technology and EPC’s application in the chemical industry, as well as a workshop for vendors.
The US Department of Homeland Security has decided to cease using RFID in its US Visitor and Immigration Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program after the technology’s read rates proved inadequate.
The facility plans to use 13.56 MHz passive tags to track inventory, reduce overstocks and waste, and make sure patients are properly billed.
A recent article by the Wall Street Journal portrays Wal-Mart’s RFID efforts as failing. That’s not the case, of course, but there is a danger that misperception could become reality.
Before deploying RFID, first be sure to consider all the automatic-identification and data-capture systems available to you.
Manufacturing Insights has released some findings from the first installment of its 2nd Annual Global RFID Report. In addition to the high-level finding — manufacturing end users are only cautiously adoption RFID, but “prospects are encouraging” — the company has shed light on the differences in adoption across geographies.
The nonprofit company is launching a pilot at California State University-Stanislaus to see if RFID can speed data collection at the point of medical service.
At its plant in Penticton, British Columbia, a real-time location system is helping Peerless determine the pace of production needed to meet customer demand and identify delays.