India is one of the largest milk producers in the world and in order to maintain that position Indian farmers have switched to RFID for improving their milk yield. Farmers in the state of Maharashtra in India have switched to RFID for improving efficiencies through proper inventory tracking and management of cows and their yield. […]

There seems to be an air of confusion with regards to both RFID and barcode technology and some believe that RFID would make barcode redundant and on the other hand some believe that days of RFID are numbered and it would go into oblivion but all these seems to be myths rather than facts since […]

Though RFID has been progressing at a decent pace but at times this progress has been marred by various controversies which seem to have affected the manner in which it has been moving ahead. RFID tags have been labeled by some as spy chips which could be a cause of great privacy concerns. This controversy […]

2007 is about to say goodbye and we are about to enter 2008 in less than a week and already predictions have started pouring in from various corners with regards to what all one could expect with regards to technological developments in the new year. 2007 saw RFID trickling down to the masses besides making […]

I had once attended a conference on technology and a group of people came up and asked me that RFID will penetrate our lives and expose it like anything leaving their privacy in doldrums. I told them that every technology had its pros and cons and if used properly it could come to the rescue […]

The next time you go for shopping to a retail store and the shopping cart tells you that you have the following items in your cart and other products which you could buy at very attractive prices and in case you are surprised and think that it is magic then you are wrong since it […]

If you mark my word then by 2009 half of cell phones working around the world will be RFID enabled. Soon these normal wireless devices which are used for communicating could act as a RFID reader or a radio capable device for NFC. With it probably you will have access to all types of data […]

I don’t know how many of you may agree with me but the real impetus RFID got was when Wal-Mart started pushing it hard. This was the period when the technology came into limelight since it had the backing of the big daddy of the retail world. As it was one of the early adopters […]

A lot of manufacturers keep on asking me whether they should implement RFID for their manufacturing units and generally my reply to all of them is why not? With manufacturing processes turning complex day by day the need of the hour is to use a technology which can track the movement of assets in a […]

We are all aware of the fact that RFID is making its presence felt across various sectors and seems to have moved beyond the traditional supply chain management. This is not me who supports this claim but even ABI Research which undertook study with regards to application of RFID beyond its traditional frontiers. Up till […]