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Divining The Future Of RFID In Transportation By ESYNC
March 17, 2005
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The buzz surrounding RFID is loud and the volume is increasing. The noise began with mandates to suppliers issued by Wal-Mart, other retailers and the Department of Defense requiring that passive RFID tags be placed on cartons and pallets shipped to mandating facilities. Given the foregoing, most of the discussion around RFID today is related to gaining efficiencies in warehousing operations. RFID solutions targeting transportation seem to be talked about only in terms of what can be gained down the road as a derivative of the primary initiatives now underway in warehousing.
What escapes most people, however, is the fact that the transportation community has been using RFID for railcar, tractor, trailer, and container identification for some time.
