The cash-strapped Social Security Administration is turning to RFID to track rack-mounted IT assets at its National Computing Center (NCC) in Woodlawn, Md. By deploying the RFID solution, SSA expects to reduce inventory cycle times by a factor of 10, while improving overall inventory accuracy by 20 percent. The contract for the software-based passive RFID [...]
The cash-strapped Social Security Administration is turning to RFID to track rack-mounted IT assets at its National Computing Center (NCC) in Woodlawn, Md. It’s expected that the RFID solution will reduce inventory cycle times by a factor of 10X, while improving overall inventory accuracy by as much as 20 percent. The contract for the software-based [...]
RFID-enabling data centers is on the way to becoming a $1 billion business. A new survey released by Frost & Sullivan says that the RFID data center market was worth $96.3 million last year, and will grow to $953 million in 2017. Companies like Cisco, Bank of America and Wells Fargo have long understood how [...]
Active RFID tags and WLANs ensure compliance with corporate finance and government regulations.
RFID-enabling data centers is on the way to becoming a $1 billion business. A new survey released by Frost & Sullivan says that the RFID data center market was worth $96.3 million last year, and will grow to $953 million in 2017. Companies like Cisco, Bank of America and Wells Fargo have long understood how [...]
Sector: Finance Savings: $10-25M (estimate over 5 years) Submitted by RFID Global Solution Bank of America is savings upwards of $20 million from an RFID deployment to track more than 100,000 IT assets at 25 data centers in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. BoA estimates that tagging items like servers, blades and other IT [...]
Monitoring only the last known location of an asset is often not sufficient in many applications as it does not give information about the direction in which the asset was moving in order to intelligently predict its next location. This is driving the requirement for RFID systems to report directionality in addition to the asset [...]
The insurance industry is warming up to RFID technology. Insurers represent a strong market for applications like asset tracking for IT items and document management. But this morning’s announcement from the Hartford Financial Services Group takes the potential benefits of RFID to a higher level. By teaming up with cold chain solution provider Intelleflex, the [...]
Here’s last week’s issue of RFID 24-7 for those that missed it. You can subscribe to RFID 24-7 here. School’s back in session, and RFID technology is being used to monitor students and staff and to track equipment more than ever, from K-12 to the college level. Adoption is becoming so widespread that it appears [...]
One of the hottest sectors for RFID technology in 2010 looks to be the tagging of IT assets at financial institutions and federal agencies, where close to a million assets could carry RFID tags by year end. Almost half a million IT assets were tagged last year. So it’s a good bet that the total [...]
