Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has garnered much attention in recent years as a method of supplanting the barcode. The uniqueness that RFID has engendered, allowing an instance of a product to be tracked, has raised some important privacy concerns. RFID technology has also promised to increase the amount of aggregate data that is collected. When dealing with data, especially the tremendo...

Implementation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology stands to save WalMart $750 million dollars per year. The retail giant has mandated that its top 100 suppliers begin using RFID by 2005. It is believed that other retailers will follow Wal-Mart’s lead. RFID holds the promise for a more efficient supply-chain, however, the industry struggles to comply with the cost and logistics ...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a growing technology among different industries. As a technology, it has been used since the Second World War, but just in the last decade, the information technology (IT) community and healthcare have been taking more action on studying and developing the technology. In this paper, we represent the general requirements that healthcare sets for the RFID ...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) uses radio frequency signals to automatically identify objects. RFID is used to pay for gas without going into the store, in automobile immobilizer systems to prevent theft, in toll road systems to automatically pay tolls without stopping, in animal identification, in secure entry cards, and in the supply chain to manage the flow of pallets, cases, and item...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has a lot of potential to bridge the gap between the virtual world of enterprise IT systems and the real world of products and logistical units. In this paper we analyse the requirements RFID middleware solutions have to meet in order to manage large deployments of RFID readers and the amount of RFID data these readers capture. We also present th...

Purpose – This paper aims to assess the business value realised from radio frequency identification (RFID)enabled healthcare transformation projects as compared with other industries. The paper starts with a review of RFID technology in the healthcare industry and further extends to an in-depth analysis of mini-case studies collected from RFID Journal, a leading professional journal dedicated t...

Recent advancements in the ubiquitous sensor network field have brought considerable feasibility to the realization of a ubiquitous society. A ubiquitous sensor network will enable the cooperative gathering of environmental information or the detection of special events through a large number of spatially distributed sensor nodes. Thus far, radio frequency identification (RFID) as an applicatio...

Reports on the activities and mission of IEEE Council Radio-Frequency Identification (CRFID)which focuses technology applications RFID systems Internet Things (IoT) to serve overall global technical communities.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology one of the most promising technologies in the field of ubiquitous computing. Indeed, RFID technology may well replace barcode technology. Although it offers many advantages over other identification systems, there are also associated security risks that are not easy to be addressed. When designing a real lightweight authentication protocol for lo...

Wireless technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Global Position System (GPS) play important role as value added services in communication systems and mobile commerce these days. The aim of Supply Chain Management is to produce, distribute, logistics and deliver goods and equipment in right location, right time, right amount to satisfy costumers, with minimum time and cos...