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Like many other nascent technologies, RFID has improved with age, writes BWeek. Excerpts with edits & comments:RFID has become more reliable and less costly. Boeing says its RFID system works 99.8% of the time, failing to read just 21 tags out of more than 18,000 in six months. That's negligible compared to the occurrence of human error when deliveries are entered manually. RFID system costs

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Infoworld has an interesting article with indicative metrics for returns on RFID investment - though the actual details of solutions,investments, savings and returns computed are not revealed - a peek into process efficiencies makes interesting reading. For Gillette, RFID has improved order processing, streamlined inventory management systems, and increased shipment accuracy, providing

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Researchers are envisioning mobile, RFID-guided robots taking on tasks such as helping families tend to disabled relatives and assisting in factory inventories. Secom, a security company in Japan, has already built a machine, called Robot X - equipped with a camera, the robot relays live video to a remote security facility. When a stranger approaches one of the children, the robot, controlled

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We recently covered the development Mobile phones as tracking agentsJohn Dvorak, a contrarian but insightful thinker writes,"Instead of using bar codes that would be monitored by the box, we are now seeing usage of RFID tags on all the foods.A complete inventory would be displayed on an LCD panel on the front of the refrigerator".This looks so much easier to read through a long list than to

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(Via Infoworld)The generic term RFID refers to more than just the cheap tags that companies slap onto pallets to comply with retailers' edicts. Several types of RFID systems exist. Wal-Mart requires passive RFID tags. Ephraim Schwartz points out that the "very best" for enterprise needs may be active RFID tags and the infrastructure that supports them. Passive tags are not powered, so they

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(Via Iweek) DHL Plans RFID Tags For Every Package It Ships -With a goal to gain tighter control of shipments, cut costs, and improve operating performance by reducing paperwork and data collection, DHL International GmbH this month starts developing a global IT infrastructure that will let it affix a radio-frequency identification tag on every package it ships by 2015. DHL's plan to tag every

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(Via Forbes)Symbol Technologies,announces the first radio-frequency identification reader that supports Microsoft's Windows CE. The move should reassert Symbol's market dominance in RFID and give Microsoft a foothold in the small but growing market.Symbol, which made its name as a maker of bar-code readers, has pegged its growth on RFID technology, from its acquisition of Matrics a year ago to

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ITU-T has recently published a technical paper on radio frequency identification (RFID) and opportunities for its use in mobile telecommunication services. RFID enables data to be transmitted by a tiny portable device, called a tag, which is read by an RFID reader and processed according to the needs of a particular application.Many experts see RFID as an enabler for ubiquitous computing 135-

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(Via RFID weblog) The RFID industry like other emerging industries shall see ore opportunities and dollars not in the hardware side, but,rather,in services. The IDTECHEX view is the emergence of an ecosystem - that shall see hardware companies, system integrators & niche industry players aligning themselves in this fast growing but importantly emerging but rapidly changing ecosystem. The RFID

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(Via Knowledge@wharton) Wharton marketing professor Peter S. Fader sees the drawing of shopping cart paths - seemingly random lines represent a new dataset showing the paths taken by individual shoppers in an actual grocery store. The mechanism to collect this unique shopping data is called PathTracker. These RFID tags were placed on the bottom of every grocery cart in a supermarket in the

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Just came across this interesting fact on RFID deployment : - 90% of manufacturing RFID projects will focus on data integration- 60% of manufacturers surveyed by Datamonitor are already working on RFID projects. - 90% of manufacturers surveyed said their next RFID project will be based on systems and data integration.- 90% of IT executives surveyed said grid computing was of no relevance

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(Via RFID Journal) Mark Roberti writes, Hospitals are discovering that RFID is the right prescription for many problems. Mark writes,When deployed properly, RFID can deliver many benefits simultaneously. In the warehouse, RFID can be deployed to increase inventory visibility, reduce labor costs and cut shipping and receiving errors all at the same time. The Jacobi Medical Center in New York

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Via(RFID Times)RFID tags may not be seen in airports for baggage tagging – due to high costs.We may see some innovative solutions like luggage tagging traceable through the internet like the one form globalbagtag.com.Supplychainreview.com writes,The promise of electronic tracking for luggage is still very much a thing of the future as cash strapped airlines are reluctant to invest in the costly

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The conventional wisdom is RFID solutions are to be used to track small items,frequently used items or items which are parts that need to go into a larger product for optimising movements. Nope - here's a case of RFID technology being deployed for tracking marine containers as these move through ports. Informationweek reports,Marine terminal operator SSA Marine is testing a new cargo-container

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(Via Newscientist)Cases of wrong mix and match in IVF treatment have happened in the world in the past. Excerpts from an interesting article:So white couples have black children , vice versa etc.The UK’s regulatory body, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is considering labelling all embryos, eggs and sperm with barcodes or electronic ID tags.The idea is that an alarm will

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We recently covered in this blog,RFID at the core of business processes.RFID is becoming the supply chain infrastructure for all major supply chains. In the next five years all supply chain networks would have to embrace RFID in a big way. This has attracted the usual cast of enterprise application vendors. AMR writes, "But traditional automation vendors aren’t quite ready to cede control of

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We recently covered Stephanie Stahl's perspective RFID at core of business processes and also covered -" Barely a day goes by that we don't hear about another application or service or middleware or chip reader that has come onto the market".Gene Alvarez,VP of technology research services at the Meta Group, writes about RFID adaption status and also discusses the approach towards RFID

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Ronald E. Quirk, Jr. and Stacia J. Borrello have come out with a well researched article on RFID deployment and regulatory conformance requirements. The key ideas covered include:RFID deployment is expected to be substantial. Many market research firms estimate that there will be nearly a tenfold increase in supply chain RFID use over the next five years. The total global market for all RFID

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Ray Lane, of Kleiner Perkins writes, More than a change in pricing or business model, software as a service is an inevitable, fundamental shift in enterprise software culture. Excerpts from the powerful article with edits and my comments added: Software as a service is transforming the IT industry. It’s more than a new way of pricing or a business model change, it will drive a whole new mindset

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(Via Smartmobs). As animals are loaded onto trucks, an onboard reader collects a time and date stamp,location information using GPS technology, and identification numbers for the site and each individual animal. The data is sent via cell phone to a database kept by Kansas animal health authorities. If the cattle are loaded or unloaded in a remote location without cellular service,the information

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( Via Informationweek) Launched in October 2003, Radar Golf has developed a U.S. Golf Association-conforming golf ball that contains a radio-frequency tag.The company's Ball Positioning System (BPS) technology enables a golfer to find a "lost" golf ball via a RadarGolf Handheld device. The handheld device "beeps" when pointed toward the ball. Detection range is 30-100 feet. BPS combines

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It is well known to people in the industry that the airbus maintenance facility in the changi airport is RFID enabled for quite some time. Now Airbus is taking to RFID to the skies. Airbus A380 double-decker aircraft,the world's largest and seats 555 passengers, will have passive RFID chips on removable parts such as life vests to help ease maintenance processes. Informationweek reports,10,000

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The latest RFID survey of 669 supply chain and IT executives from Larstan Business Reports suggest the following: - Companies that are not well-automated may reap the most dramatic gains by deploying RFID, because they will realize process efficiency, labor savings and accuracy gains that currently are enjoyed by more automated companies already using tracking technologies such as bar coding

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It is a dream situation when RFID is deployed using mobile technology -For two reasons principal reasons amongst many: A. Due to Ubiquity of the mobile - we recently wrote,mobile phone users constitute 25% of world's population and Mobile Revolution Is Next Only To The Internet Revolution. B.Due to the ease with which RFID can be deployed - If RFID can piggyback on mobile technology, the ease of

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Casino owners may become the newest members of the RFID bandwagon. They show a keen interest in the technology as a way to trackcustomers from the moment they hit the gaming tables. And the purchase of two patents by a large manufacturer shows they will not miss out on the 21st century technology. Shuffle Master, a gaming supply company headquartered, in Las Vegas, Nevada, recently purchased two

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