What is RFID?
Benefits of RFID
RFID Applications
RFID Implementation

The time is right to embrace Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The technology is proven. The costs are affordable and the benefits can be truly transformational.

RFID tagging allows an object to carry identification and descriptive information in a form that can be read at a distance using safe low-power radio frequency signal transmitted from a reader. It is the combination of traceability, handling efficiency and better information about the location and condition of products that can be achieved with RFID that makes it so attractive to a growing number of companies – large and small – all around the world.

The new EU Food Traceability Directive, Wal-Mart, other retail and US and UK Military initiatives, combined with a range of other business drivers, all make this the right time to start. The technology is maturing. Performance has dramatically improved. These improvements include longer read-range and faster anti-collision management. Developments in tag fastening and tag encapsulation material have opened up more opportunities for applying RFID in a wide range of environments and conditions. The economics are favorable and the technology is now becoming very affordable and the business case compelling.

Add to this the fact that standards are now coming into place globally and it is no longer a matter of when RFID technologies will take off but how should companies approach it and reap of the benefits for their business.

RFID tags are often envisioned as a replacement for UPC or EAN bar-codes, having a number of important advantages over the older bar-code technology. However, we believe both technologies will exist in a complimentary environment as each offers its own unique value proposition.

BuyToughPC technology partner Belgravium regularly features white papers and industry comments on their website (www.belgravium.com) from a wide variety of sources....Belgravium personnel, partner organizations, trade magazines, industry representative bodies (such as AIM UK). Several such papers can be found within the main Belgravium web site. This page features a single extracted article that we feel will be of particular interest to 3PL organizations or other organizations or individual’s associated with RFID. This selection is entitled A Four-Step Plan for Adopting RFID by Nikki Baird, director of product marketing at Viewlocity Inc.

A Four-Step Plan for Adopting RFID (Viewlocity Inc)