The supply chains of today are much more complex, global, and difficult to manage than ever before. Disappearance/theft of authentic goods and appearance of counterfeit (cloned, forged, etc.) goods are two major challenges to address. As a result, owners, manufacturers, distributors, etc. are becoming more interested in approaches that facilitate greater visibility and enable traceability of pr...

Recently home intelligent service is extended to context aware and situation aware automation service by using ubiquitous technology. In this paper, we focused on user’s context based intelligent security management for home safety application using RFID and WSN(Wireless Sensor Network). We propose a context aware home safety application model. The proposed context service support security and ...

In the supply chain, a warehouse is an essential component for linking the chain partners. It is necessary to allocate warehouse resources efficiently and effectively to enhance the productivity and reduce the operation costs of the warehouse. Therefore, warehouse management systems (WMSs) have been developed for handling warehouse resources and monitoring warehouse operations. However, it is d...

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) systems are gaining enormous interests in industry due to their vast applications such as supply chain, access control, inventory, transport, health care and home appliances. Although tag identification is the primary security goal of an RFID system, privacy issue is equally, even more important concern in the RFID system because of pervasiveness of RFID ta...

Food waste stemmed from food contamination and ineffective quality control is a significant challenge to food management. Supply chain traceability has become an essential task of the food industry for guaranteeing food quality and safety and reducing food waste. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has emerged as a lead technology in the development of traceability systems, which enable autom...

The ability to track the real-time location and movement of items or people offers a broad range of useful applications in areas such as safety, security and the supply chain. Current location determination technologies, however, have limitations that heavily restrict how and where these applications are implemented, including the cost, accuracy of the location calculation and the inherent prop...

Radio frequency identification (RFID), an identified object technology, utilizes air interface to deliver information required for object identification. The applicable technical information of RFID is convenient to manage and operate, and is widely promoted by the large-scale chain industry. Additionally, electronic product code (EPC) network technology enables immediate, automatic identificat...

The use of RFID (radio-frequency identification) in the retail supply chain and at the point of sale (POS) holds much promise to revolutionize the process by which products pass from manufacturer to retailer to consumer. The basic idea of RFID is a tiny computer chip placed on pallets, cases, or items. The data on the chip can be read using a radio beam. RFID is a newer technology than bar code...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology that changes the nature of many industries. The readiness to implement RFID affects the effectiveness of company itself and corresponding supply chain members in adopting this technology. This manuscript proposes a framework which covering organization, environment, and technology three facets with two metrics for each facet. The proposed fr...

The case examines a project utilizing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems between a department store retailer (Kaufhof) and a fashion goods manufacturer (Gerry Weber). The results of the project support the business case for adoption of RFID with benefits for both partners and the entire supply chain. The case also suggests that there are 5 Ps that should be considered by firms consid...