Trial by Tire

Trial by Tire

A test involving car tires demonstrates the importance of designing an RFID deployment that can read tags individually.

Mining the Benefits of RFID

Mining the Benefits of RFID

The mining and energy industries face numerous challenges, many stemming from the dangerous work that’s done in harsh terrain. RFID could bring several benefits at once, including protecting workers and the environment, tracking expensive assets and boosting productivity.

The Chicken or the Egg?

The Chicken or the Egg?

Manufacturers won’t benefit from tagging their items until RFID becomes widely adopted, but that won’t happen until manufacturers tag their items.

Visibility Down to the Item

Visibility Down to the Item

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing David Brock for an “Out in Front” story. Brock is the mad scientist who, back in 1996, came up with the ridiculously implausible idea of embedding a radio frequency identification tag in every item manufactured on Earth. A decade later, Brock’s idea not only doesn’t seem so farfetched, it’s actually starting to happen.