SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

 
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A look at the future as RFID 24-7 celebrates five years of publishing


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It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since RFID 24-7 launched just after Labor Day in 2008. The industry has come a long way since then, as has our website, which has developed a strong and loyal global following.

Glancing through the RFID 24-7 archives, a lot has changed over the past 60 months. At the outset, much was written about standards development, privacy concerns, pilots, and what was in store for companies brave enough to deploy RFID. As the technology matured, our coverage changed drastically. Standards are mature, although still evolving. The term “pilot” is pass�; most companies now refer to deployments and full scale rollouts.

“Looking back five years, I’m not sure I’d have predicted how far down the road we are right now,” says Dr. Bill Hardgrave, Dean of the College of Business at Auburn University and the founder of the RFID Research Center. “We were well into Gen 2 technology, but I’m not sure we’d have predicted how widespread RFID has become."

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RFID enabled pharmacy system saves
35,000 labor hours totaling $1M in salary

Kit Check's automated pharmacy solution has already saved hospitals an estimated 35,000 man-hours, including 15,000 pharmacist hours, valued at close to $1 million in salaries.

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Research report: The rise of mobile phone
indoor positioning systems

This article shares some of the research in the new IDTechEx report, “Mobile Phone Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) and Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS)" and examines use cases and the relevance of RFID related to IPS.

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"Internet of Things" added to
Oxford Dictionary Online

The phrase “Internet of Things,” coined by MIT Auto-IT Center co-founder Kevin Ashton in 1999, was added to the Oxford Dictionary Online, not to be confused with the traditional Oxford Dictionary.

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City of Bangalore deploys RFID
to track more than 1,000 city buses

Aside from increasing transit route efficiency, the system reduces workload for ticket collectors who used to record bus arrival times manually prior to RFID.

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Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods deploys Zebra
solution to track Koa trees in Hawaii

HLH intends to tag 80,000 trees this year and as many as 120,000 next season, running Confidex Carrier labels through Zebra printers and affixing them to tree stakes.

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French sports retailer deploys RFID
to enhance loss prevention

Retailers are quickly building additional use cases into their business plans, including enhanced consumer engagement, security and loss prevention.

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RFID gains momentum in pharma;
supply chain and pharmacy use cases grow

Alba Ukraine, a wholesale distributor of pharmaceuticals based in Boryspil, Ukraine has deployed an RFID-based system with GPS tracking to streamline its supply chain.

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White Paper: item level RFID
enables omnichannel retailing strategy

This white paper produced by Motorola examines the key role RFID plays in deploying a successful omnichannel strategy, and how RFID can drive inventory management, customer transparency and accurate product availability data.

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John R. Johnson is a veteran business and technology journalist with over 20 years of experience covering RFID technology, smart grid and supply chain topics. He is the former editor of RFIDWatch Weekly and DC Velocity magazine.

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