Recently, an IT executive from a sporting goods man­ufacturer told me his company was beginning to RFID-tag products in its own retail stores to im­prove inventory operations. The solution provider ...

U.S. firms have been slow to embrace radio frequency identification technology, but that is changing as both government legislation and factors driving economic efficiencies push RFID to the top of ...

Everything old is new again: RFID is many decades old in concept, but implementations have rapidly ramped in recent years. Frequencies, modulation schemes, power techniques, and other ...

You’ve been hearing a lot about RFID recently, and with good reason. The promise of RFID is essentially the creation of a radio-based bar code, meaning that we can use radio, and not light from a ...

In 1974, two Drexel University students found that an oscillating mirror laser could scan and read barcodes, their solution for more efficient grocery store management. Quick-response codes, or QR ...