When I attended the RFID Forum at the University of Arkansas last fall, one apparel supplier told me that the only reason they are tagging products is because a retail customer requested it. The vendor said too many barriers remained to pursue full deployment, including serialization. And when UHF solutions provider Impinj hosted brand owners [...]

It seems like we’ve been waiting for years for RFID-enabled appliances to become mainstream. RFID powered refrigerators, for example, could send a message to consumers and restaurant owners when food is about to expire, or automatically send a notice to your online grocery order that your milk needs to be replenished. Although that kind of [...]

Avery Dennison RFID’s Jack Farrell wrote an informative guest column for Industry Week last month, touching on a number of topics, including the growth of RFID technology and the strong return on investment that adopters of the technology are seeing. Farrell also discussed the C-level support that is needed to launch an effective RFID initiative. [...]