Twilight of Barcodes and the Dawn of RFID

This article was originally published by RFID Update.April 17, 2004—Consumer packaged goods company Procter & Gamble spends between $50 million and $100 million per year reprocessing orders based on inaccurate shipment information, and RFID could help lower that...
Standardizing EPC Data-Sharing

Standardizing EPC Data-Sharing

MIT’s Auto-ID Lab has formed a special interest group to develop a standard architecture for sharing real-time EPC event and sensor data over the Internet.

RFID News Roundup

KSW provides quality control for Matrics tags; Paxar announces “investment-protection program”; Apriso RFID-enables supply chain software; Metget merged with Sokymat; partnership explores RFID in the food industry.

FCC Loosens RFID Rule for Homeland Security

This article was originally published by RFID Update.April 16, 2004—The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a new rule allowing the use of more powerful radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in U.S. commercial shipping containers.Read the article at BPM...

RFID on the brink of European breakthrough

This article was originally published by RFID Update.April 16, 2004—The key findings of an international study undertaken by LogicaCMG reveal that Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is high on the agenda for European retailers, food manufacturers and logistic...

Two sides of RFID

This article was originally published by RFID Update.April 16, 2004—RFID has the potential to provide customers with more product information than ever. But a new report claims that food manufacturers and retailers will have to be careful that the technology is not...