Question of the Week (Answer and You Shall Receive) August 30, 2007
Posted by Meg Sewell in Analytics and Business Intelligence, Business Community Management, News, Supply Chain Visibility, Technology.trackback
I recently came across a blog post by Jon Burg about Twitter and his thoughts on how to make it more mainstream. Twitter is a really neat program that started out with a boom, should be following in the footsteps of Facebook and Myspace and yet still hasn’t reached its peak. This online program started to really remind me of technology that has attracted attention in Inovis’ realm: RFID. Like Twitter, RFID is cool technology that has sparked a lot of attention but has not yet been fully utilized. The biggest correlation is that both can track your every move.
RFID is probably even cooler than you already think it is. In Germany, RFID is being used to test face detection software in an attempt to prevent future terrorism. Portugal’s government required that all dogs be tagged by 2007 in order to control rabies. Event organizers in South Africa are using RFID to collect data about their attendees. In the UK, the Edexcel examination board is adding RFID tags to exam packages to stop cheaters in their tracks. All runners in the Boston Marathon have RFID tags attached to their shoelaces so their progress can be tracked throughout the race and their placement may be identified at the finish line. Some hospitals keep track of patients, doctors and drugs with RFID while airports are working toward using RFID to do away with pesky luggage displacement.
Here’s the big question: how are YOU using RFID? Through your valuable feedback, we can not only make sure we’re positioned to help you implement your solutions, but also help craft our own strategy with RFID as well. As a token of appreciation for your valuable input, we’ll send a logo bean to every person who comments.
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Firstly, thanks for sharing my Twitter post.
Until last week I don’t currently use RFID in any personal capacity. I believe few in the US do us RFID. Last week (it could have been two weeks ago) I received my new debit card with RFID technology built in for one tap payment.
Other than theft prevention at retail shopping outlets and tap-to-pay funactionality (most credit card and a couple of key fobs), I have not seen too much RFID usage in NY.
Jon,
You bring up a valuable point. Trent Horne, Inovis’ Director of Sales and Corporate Services remarked the other day that he thinks RFID is the coolest thing nobody’s doing.
Although this technology is mostly being used with supply chains, I hope that it will be used a lot more in many different ways in the future. The possibilities are endless! With a little more research and work, RFID could definitely become a household name.