RFID--A New Technology Set to Explode?
Part One: RFID Technology
P.J. Jakovljevic - April 22, 2004

RFID Technology

Supply chain technology has, for some time, been based on the traditional bar-code technology familiar to ordinary shoppers and consumers, but recently the software capability has been expanded to also use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. While radio ID tag-enabled software is still just a miniscule part of total supply chain management (SCM) providers' revenues, more and more user companies and software vendors are adopting this technology. This technology, which has been on almost everyone's lips lately, seems to be heading for the mainstream and boardroom priorities, almost directly from scientific labs--its making its way, of course, with a number of caveats due to the technology’s current imperfection level...