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Understanding RFID and Associated Applications White Paper

From Psion Teklogix Inc.
 

 

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is garnering considerable attention in the market as the bleeding edge of auto-identification technologies. Not only are purchasing powerhouses like Wal-Mart and the US Department of Defense driving industries to adopt the technology for supply chain applications, but many customers are focusing in on the potential efficiency gains of RFID for their automatic data capture applications in both the supply chain and mobile computing applications.

RFID is not a new technology: the military has employed RFID for decades. The British used RFID to distinguish friendly from enemy aircraft during World War II. Today, the U.S. Department of Defense uses RFID (and GPS) technology to track major shipments of all its military supplies - including the tracking of supplies and hospital patients in Iraq.

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