RFID technology using active or passive tags- a very hot issue

摘要

RFID technology using active or passive tags is currently a very hot issue in the world of retail and manufacturing logistics with the promise of bringing major gains in efficiency - translatable in competitive marketing terms to improved quality, customer service and the keenest prices at sought-after margins. The logistics environment is chiefly concerned with the instant, individual identification of very high volumes of day-to-day goods (in retail) or piece-parts (in manufacturing) or the containers in which they are stored or delivered. This has been a function carried out by bar-coding for many years and it looks as though RFID may be set, eventually, to replace it.