Online Tutoring on RFID System

What is RFID?

RFID technology was derived from World War II-era techniques in order to be able to allow aircraft to identify themselves to other friendly aircraft and commanders on the ground. Even before the invention of the transistor and the evolution of microelectronics, the technology was very large large and heavy.

 

What Business advantages and disadvantages with using RFID?

With the help of RFID Radio Frequency Identification, it has helped businesses and companies all around the world regardless of the industry they are operating in, such as manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, localization, anti-counterfeiting, etc. Among these, the tracing and tracking at item level on whole supply chains is one of the most challenging. With the help of RFID various goods can easily be traced, regardless of their size and constitutive material.

 

What alternatives businesses can use instead of RFID?

At present there are no alternatives that businesses can use instead of RFID. Even if there is something that a company or industry might want to adapt, it will be based on the same principle of infra red technology, the only difference would be of its frequency. For example RFID might operate on 13.56 MHz, where as its alternative might operate at 16.82 MHz.

 

RFID business benefit

Operationally, RFID allows data from a tag attached to a pallet, case, or individual product to be captured by a reader device. Functionally, this data can be used to identify all of these items passing the reader’s location at a point in time. This technology provides a means of tracking items from supplier through the distribution network to the point of consumption. The goal of RFID technology applied to the retail supply chain is to streamline inventory management by providing views of product shipments and inventory levels at unprecedented levels of detail. By providing precise data on product location, product characteristics, and product inventory levels, RFID promises to eliminate man- ual inventory counting, warehouse mispicking, and order numbering mistakes.