Recent reports tout increases in RFID equipment sales and Wi-Fi real-time location systems. This growth is echoed by our clients at the Emerging Technology Center in Orlando. More and more, company technology leaders are inquiring about real-time tracking of inventory via RFID. However, these inquiries demonstrate market confusion between the capabilities of EPC Gen 2 passive RFID tags and the potential of systems based upon the Wi-Fi standard most commonly used for personal computer wireless networking.

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Tagsys, a maker of products utilizing radio frequency identification (RFID), has created a new “intelligent infrastructure” for RFID networks.

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Companies expect to gain many benefits from implementing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. Perhaps the one cited most often is lower supply chain costs, which result from the improved inventory visibility that the technology affords. But there’s another, often overlooked advantage that supply chain managers should know about: RFID technology can help them fulfill the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) if implemented and integrated properly. Conversely, RFID can complicate the already complex and costly internal mandates of SOX if the implementation is not approached the right way.

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Portuguese fashion retailer Throttleman has reduced the time items spend in the supply chain by five to seven days with the use of an RFID system.

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Through most of its history, two-way radio has meant analog voice — the representation of sound waves as either amplitude modulated (AM) or frequency modulated (FM) radio waves. In fact, this is one of the last areas of professional communications to be touched by digital technology. But that’s changing, very quickly, for very good reasons.

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Computer virus-infected cats, “spychipped” $20 bills, fashion police to use RFID, passport-triggered bombs, RFID a hazard to US ports — which one of these is a bogus article? And which, if any, has any real merit? And how much?

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The future vision for RFID technology lies in achieving completely automated sensing networks that can react to external changes in real time.

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KODAK recently filed a patent for a digestible radio frequency identification tag, which would monitor the ingestion of medicine, but Kodak won’t divulge its commercial intentions.

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Three years ago when Wal-Mart announced its famous supplier “mandate,” the business press was buzzing with stories of RFID (radio frequency identification). But after that initial surge of attention, which lasted about a year, the buzz seemed to die down. Companies began to step back and say, in effect, “Hey, what’s in this thing for me?” Supply Chain Management Review interviewed Bill Hardgave, director of the RFID Research center in Arkansas.

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Mandates have cooled but adoption continues to boom in some industry segments. Will you have a strategy in place when RFID steps out of the planning stages and into reality in your market?

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