INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN RFID TECHNOLOGY
July 1st, 2013
Although it has been the subject of intense speculation over recent years, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging has fulfilled many of the predictions made by industry forecasters more than 10 years ago, when pilots of wide scale deployment by giant department store retailers began. Item level RFID tagging has revolutionised how many businesses manage distribution, inventory, shrink, and anti-counterfeiting. There were nearly four billion tags sold for retail applications in 2012 according to predictions from technology analysts IDTechEx, and almost a ...
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