RFID

Charles Walton, inventor of the RFID technology now common everywhere from warehouses to retail stores to public libraries, has died at the age of 89 in California.

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With more than a dozen US based retail RFID pilots and/or rollouts underway, many suppliers have gotten on the bandwagon to gain early competitive advantage.

Retailers are rapidly deploying item-level RFID tagging for apparel and footwear, according to an ABI Research report.

Vendors are trying to sell users on the idea that they need to stick RFID tags on IT equipment to keep track of it. Users are interested, but costs and other issues remain.

For the retailing industry, the adoption of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology this decade has been one long, strange journey: Periods of irrational exuberance followed by times of great frustration and confusion; expensive pilot projects riddled with technical, standards-based and cost complexities; and a widespread belief among those retailers or CPG manufacturers that were forced into the RFID universe that it is a technology solution in search of a problem.

Izzy's Ice Cream Cafe uses RFID technology to give customers real-time updates on all the flavors available in its St. Paul shop.

The Queensland government will roll out radio frequency identification devices (RFID) in a $61,000 trial to track the supply chain of kangaroo meat.

By now, companies that have put business applications on smartphones or other handheld devices know of the competitive advantages they can gain. The more detailed and relevant the information at hand, the greater the opportunity an employee has to close a sale, improve delivery times -- or even save a life.

A homeowner had a vexing problem. While the family cat was able to go in and out through a pet door, so was a mischievous neighborhood raccoon, which snuck in and ate the cat’s food. RFID came to the rescue.

The European Commission Tuesday set a code of conduct for companies using RFID (radio frequency identification) tags that it hopes will safeguard citizens' privacy and allow the quick rollout of the new technology.