RFID: A Technical Overview and Its Application to the Enterprise
Abstract
Radio 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 article offers an RFID tutorial that answers the following questions
- What is RFID, and how does it work?
- What are some applications of RFID?
- What are some challenges and problems in
- RFID technology and implementation?
- How have some organizations implemented RFID?
Answering these questions will provide an organizational framework for RFID implementation from both the technical and business perspectives
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