A new study released by ChainLink Research has thrown up an interesting fact regarding RFID adoption. Most companies will add RFID to their setups in order to benefit from the technology and not necessarily to meet customer mandates.
This is a bit of a surprise because customers in this case include giants like the U.S DoD […]

Herding, which is a Germany-based company manufacturing industrial air-filtering systems, has announced that they expect to get an ROI on its RFID investments in 2007, 3 years after the company implemented RFID in 2004. With RFID, the company has replaced the pen-and-paper methods used for returning refitted air filters to the owners. The company uses […]

Now that the year is drawing to a close, Taggedplanet reviews a few new introductions from 2006.
2006 saw Gen 2 tags gaining a firm hold, which is good news for the retail supply chain. Interoperability is improving and better quality tag silicon is now available. Interest in item-level tagging is picking up, which is crucial […]

Analyst firm Frost and Sullivan reports that the RFID printer and encoder market is set to grow at the rate of more than 50% per annum and the market in 2012 will be worth $209.3 million. This is a quantum leap from the market size in 2005, which was a mere $10.7 million. The reason […]

Frost and Sullivan have reported that the RFID market will continue to grow and that too at a CAGR of 20% for the next six years. According to the report even though the technology is really taking off there is a lack of trained personnel that may hinder smooth adoption by industry. For learning more […]

Here’s an interesting way to use RFID.  South Korea’s SK Telecom have unveiled a new service called U-Theater where they have integrated RFID tags into movie posters and distributed them round town.  People can then scan the movie poster using their mobile phone to watch movie trailers, download the movie soundtrack and ringtones.
Moreover, users can […]