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Radio Frequency ID Tags: What They Are, How They Can Be Used And How Production Costs Can Be Reduced
White Papers This paper looks at the history of RFID, in what areas it can be put to use, and how, through redesigning the manufacturing process, the cost of these RFID tags can be drastically reduced, thus making them a viable alternative to barcodes.
[February 15, 2006, 0:01]
Wipro: Retail Technology
White Papers For RFID tags to be able to replace barcodes, the technology has to be one hundred times cheaper, or at around 5 cents to a dollar. It happened in the case of barcodes, and there is no reason to believe that it will not happen with RFID.
[December 21, 2004, 2:00]
RFID Applications In Manufacturing
White Papers The main obstacle to the spread of RFID in manufacturing is the success of barcodes, the previous generation of auto-ID technology. In most applications, reading barcodes requires human intervention, a clean, high-contrast environment, and often...
[February 10, 2006, 0:01]
Photos: Tracking People With VoIP And RFID
News Colm Shorten, IBM's RFID centre of excellence manager, said that RFID technology, which is actually 40 to 50 years old, will not replace existing systems such as barcodes for some time. Some people refer to it as a disruptive technology, but we...
[March 22, 2006, 14:25]
Radio Frequency Identification: Little Devices Making Big Waves
White Papers RFID tags, like barcodes in their own time, could provide quicker and myriad other uses outside the retail setting. A major technical advancement, RFID tags are poised to stimulate growth; therefore it is important to embrace them rather than stall...
[March 9, 2008, 0:18]
Implementing RFID For Rapid ROI And Long-Term Success
White Papers RFID technology replaces printed barcodes with electronic tags that can discretely identify individual items and can be automatically tracked as they move through distribution channels. Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is poised to...
[October 5, 2005, 3:00]
Integration In RFID
White Papers The statement "Internet of things" is slowly becoming true; with concerted efforts from standard setting bodies such as EPC Global, ISO, FMCG consumer goods companies like Gillette, P&G and major retailers like Wal-Mart, TESCO, and the US DoD, to...
[February 15, 2006, 0:01]
Strengthening EPC Tags Against Cloning
White Papers Like barcodes, EPC tags emit static codes that serve to identify and track shipping containers and individual objects. EPC tags, though, have a powerful benefit: they communicate in an automated, wireless manner.
[January 5, 2006, 0:01]
The Benefits Of Automating A Slap And Ship Operation
White Papers With RFID tags being much more fragile than traditional barcodes, the increased handling of the tags that occurs with "Slap and ship" may lead to tag malfunctions, something that most companies cannot afford with the current cost of RFID tags.
[November 16, 2006, 0:00]
RFID Privacy: A Technical Primer For The Non-Technical Reader
White Papers The focus here is on basic RFID tags of the type poised to supplant optical barcodes over the coming years, initially in industrial settings, and ultimately in consumer environments. RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) is a wireless...
[January 5, 2006, 0:01]
A Roadmap For Printable Electronics
White Papers These new products are likely to include printed RFID tags that would be inexpensive enough to compete with barcodes, computer displays that can be rolled up, and photovoltaic arrays that can be printed directly onto roofing and wall building...
[May 10, 2006, 1:00]
High-Power Proxies For Enhancing RFID Privacy And Utility
White Papers Basic tags of the "smart-label" variety are likely to serve as a next-generation replacement for barcodes. A basic Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) tag is a small and inexpensive microchip that emits a static identifier in response to a query...
[February 10, 2006, 0:01]
BAA Prepares For RFID Rollout
News Much interest has focused on the use of RFID tags to replace barcodes on luggage, but it is likely that global standards would have to be in place before the technology was widely adopted by airlines.
[April 29, 2005, 16:50]
The Future Of Radio Frequency Identification
News Further, an RFID reader can read multiple RFID tags simultaneously, which is not possible using barcodes. The range of sensing RFID tags from an RFID reader can vary from a few centimetres to a few metres depending on the frequency of operation and...
[August 18, 2003, 14:55]
Civil Liberties Groups Demand Halt To RFID
News A number of major retailers are interested in using them as a high-tech replacement for barcodes, as they offer the possibility of improved stock control -- allowing a company to automatically count how many items it has in store, for example.
[November 20, 2003, 17:15]
Revolutionizing Military Supply Chains And Shipping Ammunition At The Blue Grass Army Depot
White Papers The Savi Technology solution combines linear bar codes, Two Dimensional (2D) barcodes, and active RFID tags into a suite of AIT that resolves many of the problems and issues that encumbered the efficient and effective picking, packing, and...
[June 16, 2006, 0:00]
Generics And Tagging Technologies
White Papers For example, at one end of the tagging spectrum barcodes provide a cheap, short-range, read-only method of storing small amounts of information about a product. At the other extreme, RFID tags provide the ability to track and identify multiple...
[June 25, 2004, 20:00]
The CIO 'born And Bred' In The IT Department
News It is currently trialling the use of barcodes on cylinders in Western Australia, and is likely to trial RFID tags later, according to Dew. The product information in a stack of trays can now be read in about five seconds by merely wheeling the...
[August 18, 2005, 15:50]
Solving RFID's Image Problems
News The two areas where we are launching suits against Intermec are wireless and 2D barcodes. In the 1970s, people were concerned about the same privacy issue with barcodes. And RFID tags don't have any power - they have to be powered by a device in a...
[June 2, 2005, 19:45]
EU Passports Get Biometric Data
News RFID has a big advantage over barcodes because, for example, the individual contents of a box can be identified without having to physically open the box. RFID tags have been used as an alternative to barcode labels to help keep track of products...
[July 18, 2003, 15:27]
