... and a big "duh."
Analysts have been saying for YEARS that RFID will help aviation-maintenance pros, airlines, and supply chain managers in all aspects of the industry (luggage checks, preventing terrorist attacks, etc.).
According to this report from an RFID market watcher, "baggage costs $2.5 billion per annum and increasingly airlines and airports need to show and be able to prove that baggage has been properly screened."
By Priyanka Gouthaman
Dec. 25, 2006—Layoffs and cutbacks appear to be the new buzzwords within the industry, with announcements from both Sirit and Checkpoint Systems in recent weeks. Critics of RFID technology have been quick to point to such announcements, claiming the market continues to be driven more by hype than by reality. However, the scaled-down efforts are not reflective of the industry's potential. Frost & Sullivan believes the potential for RFID definitely exists, and that growth patterns are likely to resemble that of the earlier bar-code market.
TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Stores in central Tokyo are set to beam news of special offers, menus and coupons to passers-by in a trial run of a radio-tagging system.
The Tokyo Ubiquitous Network Project, which launches in the glitzy Ginza district next month, sends shoppers information from nearby shops via a network of radio-frequency identification tags, infrared and wireless transmitters, according to the project's Web site.
When was the last time you actually put pen to paper and wrote a letter? Can’t remember? Well, in this day and age of the fast email and faster text messages, it’s no wonder post offices are being all but relegated to a corner in the past. But these institutions are not going down without a fight, and they’re harnessing the same factor that served to make them obsolete to gain importance once again –technology, RFID to be precise.
This sort of thing has been tried with different technologies in the past, but now Samsung has a refrigerator that uses RFID to tell you when certain foods are running low. [All Headline News via RFID News] Of course, to facilitate this, all of your food would have to have item-level tags. (Though there are a few produce suppliers who are experimenting with food grade RFID tags.)
Yes, I know, I’ve been a very bad blogger lately… you have my sincere apologies. Thanks for sticking with me.
Today’s item is a story I somehow missed when it got some attention last month, but serves as a perfect addendum to my last post.
Via EcoGeek (and Sustainablog and Forbes) comes the story of RecycleBank in Philadelphia, a company which rewards consumer recycling by translating household efforts into monetary awards redeemable at participating businesses. Participants can earn up to $35 (~27 euros) per month.
NTTコムウェア（株）、（株）インターネットイニシアティブ（以下：IIJ）、日本オラクル（株）、日本ベリサイン（株）は、国際的なRFID標準化団体であるEPCglobalが1月から実施する国際物流の実証実験において、共同で標準化の仕様に準拠したRFIDシステムを構築する。
以前連載していた「RFIDシステム導入バイブル」では、RFIDシステム導入の進め方、特有な作業、ハードウェア／ソフトウェア、留意点、ケーススタディ、そしてRFIDシステム最適化などの、導入に必要な知識と押さえるべきポイントについて解説しました。この連載を通読していただいた方は、RFIDシステム導入の基礎知識を理解し、実際に携わることが可能なスキルをすでに備えていることでしょう。
今回から始まる「RFIDプロフェッショナル養成バイブル」では、それを一歩進めて、基本的な知識を備えた人物が、現実的にRFIDシステムのプロフェッショナルになるにはどうすべきかを3回にわたって解説していきます。
