RFID fact or fiction?

Radio Frequency IDentification - What is it? Where is it? What are ipt doing about it?
A major technology for tracking goods and assets, it can help hospitals locate expensive equipment more quickly to improve patient care (or even the patients themselves!), pharmaceutical companies to reduce counterfeiting and logistics providers to improve the management of moveable assets.
It also promises new efficiencies in the supply chain by tracking goods from the point of manufacture through to the retail point of sale (POS). As a result of the potential benefits of RFID, many of the world's major retailers are adopting RFID tagging for pallets and cases shipped into their distribution centres.
RFID has many applications outside of the retail supply chain including some surprisingly familiar ones such as car key-fobs, mass transit (such as the London Transport Oyster card), ski resort lift passes and security badges for access control into buildings.
RFID equipment is steadily falling in price as volumes increase and microchip unit production costs fall. The ability to store several k bytes of data in addition to the unique identifier means it has the potential to become ubiquitous - billions of tags in daily use throughout the world on all objects that are produced, stored, moved, sold and maintained. Contact us for details of our RFID-ready products.

14/11/2005


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