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RFID technology is not so passive these days. Impinj today announced their new Monza 4 Passive RFID chip, setting the bar for performance in RFID read range, RFID read reliability and speed, and low-c... (more information)
by Bill McBeath and Ann Grackin
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Supply Chain complexity, outsourcing, and the complexity and speed of business processes, enhance the need for real-time visibility across the chain. This makes companies like Acsis an indispensable c... (more information)
by By Ann Grackin
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Of all the RFID solutions in the marketplace today, Active RFID comprises one of the larger RFID market sectors of interest to major companies. Active RFID solutions are used in government, business a... (more information)
by Ann Grackin
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Active RFID has many uses and proven value in specific applications. Whether Asset tracking, access control, security, etc., Active RFID has been successfully deployed in many businesses from Auto, ... (more information)
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On Thursday at 10:30 a.m., Ms Ann Grackin will address RFID World attendees on Port Security -- product integrity, facility security, and securing our International Trade. See below for RFID World Pro... (more information)
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In the past, the majority of fixed RFID readers were either your standard issue 4-port "one-size-fits-all" readers or, at the other end of the spectrum, customized for a very specific application such... (more information)
by By Bill McBeath
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Manufacturers increasingly see RFID as a way to enable business process efficiencies rather than merely comply with customer mandates. ... (more information)
by Bill McBeath
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Biometrics has been a useful technology in financial applications as well as access control. However, it also has a controversial alter-ego. Many governments seek to create national identity cards, us... (more information)
by By Ann Grackin
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Tsunami, hurricane, landslides -- in responding to the needs of the victims of these natural disasters, the effective delivery of food, pharmaceuticals and life saving products are now in the spotligh... (more information)
by Carla Reed
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Do standards matter? Do they bring value to end-users? Does the market care? And how does something become a standard, anyway...... (more information)
by By Ann Grackin
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Standards groups are known for glacial speed, but Dash7 moves with faster frequency.
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by By Ann Grackin
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As goods traverse the suppy chain, various parties need to exchange information about these goods. This requires interoperability across the global network, creating the need for the EPCglobal Network... (more information)
by Bill McBeath
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This memorandum establishes policy for the use of RFID within the Department of Defense (DoD) and initiates a strategy to take maximum advantage of the inherent life-cycle asset management efficiencie... (more information)
by Under Secretary of Defense
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GS1, HP and Microsoft enter product recall space - but GS1 enters as a nonprofit. What is the impact to industry?... (more information)
by By Ann Grackin
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The RFID system market is maturing, beyond just devices and physical implementation, to providing users with more complete solutions. The vendors who offer well-thought-out solutions, based on solid e... (more information)
by By Bill McBeath
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RFID Live exhibitions go beyond hardware demonstration solutions. As the device market matures, the focus is on the business solutions, while electronics sets new records in performance.... (more information)
by By Ann Grackin
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For years, pundits have predicted that the market for Location-Based Services is about to take off. So far that has been mostly wishful thinking. But there are many signs that now the time really is r... (more information)
by By Bill McBeath
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Changing the Way Your Enterprise Organizes, Learns, and Relates to Suppliers and Partners.
Most sourcing and procurement executives instinctively focus on improving their processes, often usi... (more information)
by Bill McBeath
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This 10-minute overview presented by ChainLink CEO, Ann Grackin discusses the impact of changing business models on the supply chain.... (more information)
by Ann Grackin
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Estimates on the effects of counterfeit trade exceed two hundred billion dollars (US), and inspections across the world cost billions. Yet only a very few shipments are actually inspected. This issue ... (more information)
by Ann Grackin
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The benefits of more responsive supply chains are understood, but creating agile processes , especially for warehouses, to improve Customer experience can be a challenge. Several new technologies have... (more information)
by By Ann Grackin
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Recent articles on Walmart's item-level tagging announcement dedicated a lot of print to privacy concerns. Is that the central story?... (more information)
by By Bill McBeath
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From Prada to American Eagle: from the edge of fashion to the middle, the brand, the fashion and the efficiencies come from technology investments.... (more information)
by By Ann Grackin
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ChainLink Research, in partnership with CSCMP, has created a program specifically designed to meet the needs of supply chain management professionals. This course will provide new research and fresh i... (more information)
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ChainLink Research, in partnership with CSCMP, has created a program specifically designed to meet the needs of supply chain management professionals. This course will provide new research and fresh i... (more information)
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The hype around the adoption of RFID as the 'hot new technology' continues. The reality is that RFID, despite the fact that this is a relatively mature technology, is still far from mainstream.... (more information)
by Carla Reed
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One of the suppliers making strides in complying with Wal-Mart's RFID mandates is HP. We can all learn some lessons from the experience of these kinds of supplier programs.... (more information)
by Bill McBeath
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RFID technology, implementation experience, and value realization have evolved quickly in the last few years. With global standards - not just for hardware, but also data - the confidence of the user ... (more information)
by Ann Grackin
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The extended Consumer Supply Chain is driven by serving the demands of the ultimate customer. Since consumers have no obligation to present forecasts to their merchants, that means businesses need to ... (more information)
by Ann Grackin
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Understanding DoD RFID Policy and Data Requirements - What this session is about: This session is targeted to DoD Suppliers who are i
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Module Two - Understanding RFID Solutions Session A: RFID Technology Basics
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Module Two - Understanding RFID Solutions
Session B: The Science Behind RFID (segment 4)
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Module Three - Getting Started
Session A: Understanding the DoD Supply Chain (segment 5)
Have you ever wondered how the DoD manages to move all the necessary supplies to the war ... (more information)
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While many manufacturers are adopting RFID by force of mandate, even more of them are seeking ways to use the technology to improve their operations. Our survey of 275 manufacturing companies across ... (more information)
by Bill McBeath
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This report contains research into current and planned use of RFID in Maritime. In discussion with shippers, carriers, port operators and technology providers, the report covers these areas:
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by Ann Grackin
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RFID can, if implemented correctly, have a significant impact on retail performance. This report takes a look at what is being done by some early adopters. This report covers the type of RFID ... (more information)
by Laura Faught
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by Ann Grackin, Bill McBeath
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This report -- RFID Hardware -- is for two audiences. There is a primer for those who do not have RFID knowledge. Although we use the word primer, we think most people will still learn a bit ... (more information)
by Ann Grackin
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Authorities across the globe recognize the value of sharing patient and remedy data across a network of expert medical practitioners. The concept of "tele-medicine" has been positively received in sev... (more information)
by Carla Frances Reed
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Estimates for the true cost of drug manufacturing, from drug discovery to commercialization, range from hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Irrespective of the financial considerations, findi... (more information)
by Carla Frances Reed
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The pressure is on from consumers and industry to protect their own interests. These represent sometimes-conflicting goals...... (more information)
by Lucy West
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A ChainLink eLearning Workshop Playback:
First in a Series of Four ChainLink Research invites you to "RFID in Healthcare and Life Sciences", the industry's best educational session on R ... (more information)
by Instructors: Bill McBeath, Carla Reed
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ChainLink Research invites you to continue with "RFID in Healthcare and Life Sciences", the industry's best educational session on RFID in the End-to-End Healthcare Chain. In this 90 minute class at y... (more information)
by Instructors: Carla Reed
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ChainLink Research invites you to "RFID in Pharmaceutical Discovery", the playback recording of the fourth and last in a series of four educational sessions on the use of RFID in the End-to-End Hea ... (more information)
by Instructor: Carla Reed
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RFID can help businesses create ways to see and sense - in real-time, all the time - product consumption, as well as evolve their offerings over time, to continue to meet the needs of an ever more sop... (more information)
by Ann Grackin
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A ChainLink eLearning Workshop - Third in a series of Four ... (more information)
by Instructor: Carla Reed
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This month we have a contribution by Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman of IDTechEX out of the UK. Peter has shared with us some different perspectives on RFID and its evolution and growth in the Supply Chai... (more information)
by Dr. Peter Harrop
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Although there is extraordinary hype, with at least one industry show per week dedicated to RFID, it will take awhile before this turns into serious money for vendors.... (more information)
by Ann Grackin
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While the use of RFID to track livestock is fertile ground for humor, the story in this arena plays out all the issues inherent in any large scale Business Process Improvement (BPI) project but colore... (more information)
by Lonnie Childs
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In spite of disillusionment about the RFID sector over the past couple of years (mostly by those who were swept up in the earlier wave of hype), the RFID Market is still receiving investments, such as... (more information)
by By Bill McBeath
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The Department of Defense recently embarked upon a vision for accelerating transformation of its logistics capabilities over the next five to ten years. The primary objective is ensuring consistent, r... (more information)
by Ann Grackin
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The art of getting customers to opt in is the start of the "opting in chain", so to speak. And, at the heart of that art, is to ensure that the customer perceives and gets value as well as an improve... (more information)
by Laura Faught
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Recently I spoke at the National Retail Federation in the center of retail: New York City! The big buzz this year, no surprise, was about RFID.... (more information)
by Ann Grackin
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We wanted to ask successful RFID implementers to comment on RFID. Here is a perspective from Toby Rush, CEO of Rush Tracking Systems, who shares his insights on the full view of what RFID is and how ... (more information)
by Toby Rush
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The recent RFID Journal Live conference had an interesting new attendee profile: members of the legal community, anxious to learn what was new and valuable in the world of RFID and other auto-identifi... (more information)
by Carla Reed
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Cyber Security, Compliance, Privacy, Supply Chain, Import Security, Anti-Counterfeiting, Critical Infrastructures and scary threats like fraud and piracy, ID theft, fraudulent checks, skimmers, phishi... (more information)
by By Grackin, West, and the ChainLink Team
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The MIT RFID and Sensor SIG had something for every generation of futurists, from "social tribing" to manufacturing locating systems.... (more information)
by By Tom Coyle
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The accurate and timely sharing of strategy, planning, and execution information across the end-to-end supply chain has become critical. The elimination of trade barriers, and the move to massive outs... (more information)
by Carla Reed, Bill McBeath, Ann Grackin
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Like a summer reading list, this is a summer technology list. Spend some time contemplating and learning about the future...... (more information)
by By Ann Grackin
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We present a roadmap for the future of RFID protocols. We cover two dimensions: added functionality and new versions. We show that functionality can be added to RFID tags without compromising modulari... (more information)
by Sanjay Sarma, Daniel Engels
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This white paper is no longer available. For more articles on RFID, see below:... (more information)
by Sanjay Sarma, Daniel Engels
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Bad data is usually the biggest challenge to integrating systems. It can bring not only sytems but also the whole enterprise to its knees. That is why leading per-formers like Wal-Mart and Dell are ob... (more information)
by Bill McBeath
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RFID and wireless usage will drive up data transactions by ten fold over the next few years. It is likely that a significant re-addressing of the infrastructure will be required-in the enterprise and ... (more information)
by Ann Grackin
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With continued Supply Chain outsourcing to low cost producers, piracy and counterfeiting loom large. So I went to meet with Paul Fox, who is the Chairman of the Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Pi... (more information)
by Ann Grackin
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RFID middleware has a critical role to play in cleaving together and clarifying the signals and intelligence, bi-directionally from the device layer to the business applications, or out to the communi... (more information)
by Ann Grackin
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Some went looking for it. Others stumbled upon it by chance. But Indian brains are driving the RFID revolution.... (more information)
by IEEE Survey of the Future
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We just got back from the National Retail Federation show in NYC-home of big retailing. The big hit of the show was the Metro Group's Store of the Future. ... (more information)
by Ann Grackin
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Smart phones, clean energy, energy independence, disruptive technologies, emerging markets, and the economic restructuring of the world - who will be the players in all that?
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by By Ann Grackin
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Information on METRO Group's Future Store Initiative... (more information)
by Metro Group
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