Making Progress On Out-of-Stocks
Wal-Mart is using RFID readers at some stores to solve this once intractable problem.
L.A. County Jail to Track Inmates
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department plans to launch an RFID system that could track 1,800 inmates this year, and 18,000 in the future.
Casino Supplier Doing Brisk RFID Business
On Friday publicly-traded casino supplier Gaming Partners International Corporation announced in its Q1 financial results that it is doing a brisk business in RFID chips.
Not Perfect, But Good Enough
How Wal-Mart copes with the fact that it can’t read every RFID tag on cases arriving at its stores.
March/April 2005
This issue explores RFID technology’s ability to reduce out-of-stock and includes a case study explaining how Wal-Mart is using RFID in stores to improve on-shelf availability.
Communication Breakdown
Not all EPC Gen 1 readers can be upgraded to handle EPC Gen 2’s dense reader mode. Here’s what you need to know.
Be Your Own Analyst
Here’s how to make your own judgments about the state of the RFID market.
ONS: Leveraging E-Commerce
EPCglobal’s Object Name Service is designed to let users look up data associated with EPC tags, but it could also drive e-commerce.
Aim for the Worst
The performance of tags—even those of the same make and model—can vary greatly. To achieve high read rates, design systems to read the weakest tags.
Best Buy Aims for Item-Level Tagging
Best Buy plans to move swiftly to item-level tagging.