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Is 'grand' bad for RFID?

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It’s a grand vision: everything in the world talking to every other thing in the world through the magic of RFID technology. A frozen meal communicating with the refrigerator, microwave, and automated shopping list; clothes giving instructions to a washing machine and dryer; a medicine cabinet reading medication instructions and automatically dispensing them...the list goes on.

These grand visions help generate awareness of how RFID can provide everyday benefits to the average citizen. Unfortunately, they’re grand and complicated and require systems that are not yet in place or even feasible at the moment. And they distract people from thinking about the benefits of RFID in smaller, more easily implemented, and cost-justified applications.

There are already enough case histories and studies that clearly demonstrate the benefits of a well thought-out and properly implemented RFID system for inventory management, production control, asset tracking and location, patient monitoring, and so on. What most of these applications have in common is that they are not “grand”—they are focused on specific business cases and do not rely on a complex infrastructure.

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