SCDigest
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The RFID researchers at Baird & Company are starting to see signs that users are moving to a more mature view of the role of RFID – which SCDigest believes will actually trigger greater ultimate adoption.
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With the massive awareness relative to RFID created over the past few years, driven by Wal-Mart and relentless media coverage of the technology, in many cases RFID was pursued as a solution itself, rather than an enabling technology that is part of a total business solution to a problem.
Indeed, companies were advised by many to look for problems that RFID could solve, leading to, some extent, an over focus on the technology itself.
Is that starting to change?
In reality, RFID is one of several forms of Automatic Identification (Auto ID), the most prominent of which has traditionally been bar codes, but which also includes things such as magnetic stripes, biometrics, and other technologies. Most of these technologies, in turn, have multiple flavors themselves (e.g., active and passive RFID, linear and two-dimensional bar codes, to cite simple examples).
Companies should deploy the optimal Auto ID technology to solve the problem at hand, which in some cases may be a combination of technologies.
The RFID researchers at Baird & Company are starting to see signs that users are moving to a more mature view of the role of RFID – which SCDigest believes will actually trigger greater ultimate adoption.
“One of the more encouraging signs regarding maturity of RFID is hearing more about specific solution development where RFID might be a component, versus a focused discussion on RFID,” Baird notes in its most recent monthly newsletter on RFID.
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