Broad enterprise adoption of RFID is inevitable — but its potential won’t be reached if the industry doesn’t handle privacy issues.
In a report released on Thursday, IT research firm Burton Group said that RFID has promise for keyless access to buildings, gates and autos; cashless payments; tracking of high-value goods; highway toll collection; and […]
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An RFID chip that is the size of two grains of rice and encased in a glass container was implanted in the back of Halamka’s right arm, near the elbow, just before Christmas. Halamka said this month that when the chip is scanned by an RFID reader, an identifying number directs physicians to his medical […]
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Radio frequency identification technology is generating interest from pharmaceutical companies as a way to deter illegal drug trafficking and from health care executives who are trying to keep tabs on medical equipment.
Late last year, Stamford Conn.-based Purdue Pharma LP announced plans to become one of the first pharmaceutical companies to integrate RFID into packaging […]
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Hockey great Wayne Gretzky had a simple explanation for his success. While everyone else was chasing the puck, he skated to where the puck was going next.
The same strategy might apply to the adoption of RFID. For nearly two years, most of the chatter has been about mandates in the retail supply chain. That’s […]
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Radio-frequency Identification technology (RFID) can bring important benefits for businesses in the global economy. In an edition of Xtreme Retail23, a newsletter that studys the convergence of retail, technology and consumer issues, a report has been published that writes how RFID technology can help retailers enhance the shopping experience for their consumers.
Each month, Xtreme […]
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Radio-frequency identification has caught the attention of the world’s
biggest retailers for tracking goods as they move through supply chains.
But the DeKalb County Juvenile Court in Georgia believes RFID can be put to
use on a smaller scale, to keep tabs on the 12,000 manila file folders on
more than 9,000 children processed through the court system each […]
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The only grade school in this rural town is requiring students to wear radio frequency identification badges that can track their every move. Some parents are outraged, fearing it will take away their children’s privacy.
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Although retailers are pushing the roll-out of radio frequency identification tagging, logistics companies are staying with barcodes until a profitable business case can be found
The supermarket giants leading the radio frequency identification tagging revolution could find their plans undermined by the reluctance of logistics companies to adopt the technology.
US supermarket giant Wal-Mart is one […]
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The latest Technology, Media and Telecommunications report from business consultants Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu predicts that this is the year RFID will take off, providing businesses with a complete insight into where items are located at any time of the day or night. This, says the report, will cut fraud, reduce errors and help improve all […]
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Researchers at U.S.A.’s Johns Hopkins University and encryption company RSA Laboratories have uncovered a security vulnerability in the radio frequency identification (RFID) chips used in some car keys. Researchers also found that pay tags with RFID chips used for purchasing gasoline can also be defeated with low-cost technology.
Their findings, described in a new research […]
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