The case examines a project between a leading European retailer, Kaufhof Department Stores, and fashion merchandise manufacturer Gerry Weber utilizing RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). It shows how both players experienced significant cost, time, and inventory management improvements over the course of the 5-month project. These performance improvements occurred at both the warehouse level...

of the Dissertation Efficient Medium Access Protocols for Wireless and RFID Networks

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are used in a variety of applications to uniquely identify physical objects. The operation of RFID systems often involves a situation in which numerous tags are present in the interrogation zone of a single reader at the same time. Although RFID is currently a hot topic, many organizations are slow in adopting RFID to conduct more effective and effi...

Many object localization applications need the relative locations of a set of objects as oppose to their absolute locations. Although many schemes for object localization using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags have been proposed, they mostly focus on absolute object localization and are not suitable for relative object localization because of large error margins and the special hardwa...