Location Is Everything

摘要

Before the hype surrounding rfid (radio frequency identification) gets out of hand, keep in mind that this isn't the wireless solution for everything. RFID is an identification technology, not a tracking technology. An RFID tag can tell you whether a pallet of widgets is in or out the dock door, on or off the shelf. But if you want to know where a palette is inside a million-square-foot warehouse, or locate people or high-value assets to within a few feet, you might want to consider a more cost-effective alternative. RFID readers have a range of 10 feet, assuming the tags are oriented correctly. (If the tags, often manually applied to pallets, are oriented in-correctly or in the wrong place, readers won't be able to pick them up.