RFID a technical overview and ...

RFID a technical overview and its application to the enterpriseRFID offers tantalizing benets for supply chain management, inventory control, and many other applications. Find out whether your company could benet.
Ron Weinstein

RFID: A Technical Overview and Its Application to the Enterprise

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adio frequency identification (RFID) has been around for decades. Only recently, however, has the convergence of lower cost and increased capabilities made businesses take a hard look at what RFID can do for them.A major push came when retailing giant Wal-Mart dramatically announced that it would require its top 100 suppliers to supply RFID-enabled shipments by January 2005. Though the bottom line story of that deployment has yet to surface, it does seem to support the inevitable movement of inventory tracking and supply chain management toward RFID. This art