Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...In many ways, the starting point is the tracking technology, known as radio-frequency identification, or RFID....
...For refrigerated items, tracking enhances quality control by giving near-continuous temperature readings....
...And its GPS tracking makes it near impossible to misplace....
...The tracking technology, known as radio-frequency identification or RFID, depends on tiny circuits and antennas hidden in security tags fastened to clothing in Inditex’s factories....
...“Near-field communication (NFC), which is a technology often used for contactless payment, and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, which are often used for inventory management and tracking, can...
...“We could be using materials passports, tracking and tracing materials through their life.”...
...One example is the use of wireless RFID (radio-frequency identification) tags equipped with near-field communication technology....
...Tracking chips in their shoulder pads record their movements, helping to create a rich set of data that shows how fast players run, over what distance and how quickly they accelerated....
...They can also help people monitor their spending by tracking and storing receipts....
...McKenney, the mechanical contractor firm, developed Business Intelligence for Buildings by tracking trends and performance over extended periods....
...The original – and still the most familiar – tracking device is the machine-readable barcode....
...fine-grained item tracking and identification....
...Businesses should also take advantage of technologies such as GPS (the global positioning system) tracking, RFID (radio frequency ID) tags, communications networks and software tools....
...Its mission was to discover whether there were benefits from putting lettuces into RFID-tagged crates at the packing shed, and tracking them through the supply chain until the contents were sold and the...
...“Our technology is being used for tracking almost 1,000 buses In Minneapolis; in Switzerland, they’re using it for tracking both trams and buses.” And as for tracking cows?...
...“There are still issues around how far companies should go in tracking individual items, and how far into the supply chain you should go [with RFID],” he says....
...RFID data collection from IBM IBM sees a bright future for radio frequency ID (RFID), the wireless tracking technology that could revolutionise supply chains, and has introduced a new version of its InfoSphere...
...sensors and tracking history, could be used to manage the supply chain in blood transfusion....
...However, a growing number of airlines and airports are considering introducing radio frequency identification (RFID) technology as a means of tracking bags....
...RFID, for example, produces a unique serial number for each product, while conventional tracking systems may be designed just to record a product’s stock code, and assume that each product with the same...
...The Omni-ID tag, for example, has allowed companies to overcome one of the biggest difficulties with RFID, a radio technology used for identifying and tracking goods as they move through the supply chain...
...“Where the market in RFID is burgeoning is in asset-tracking applications.”...
...The company said its use of RFID would initially be limited to authenticating products at the point of sale rather than tracking them through the supply chain....
...The potential power of RFID chips in tracking individual behaviour has led to the creation of the vocal US pro-privacy group Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (Caspian)....
...Mr Boudjouk says the terrorist attacks on the US in September 2001 prompted the military to broaden the scope of the research beyond RFID for inventory tracking....
International Edition