Rapid Adoption of RFID in Manufacturing and Logistics

The adoption of RFID in the Manufacturing and Logistics sector is taking many new forms as it becomes used for everything from theft and counterfeit prevention to increasing sales by reducing stockouts and managing standing assets more efficiently and controlling access to secure areas. For example, Ubiquitous Sensor Networks with fault tolerant ZigBee networking are being trialled for asset management. Dr Chang-Hun Lee of the National Information Society Agency, Korea says, “Ubiquitous Sensor Networks will be a huge RFID market in a few years.” Then there is the form of active RFID known as Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS.)