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Wal-Mart Explores New RFID Form Factors By Mark Roberti
March 16, 2006
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Simon Langford, director of RFID strategy at Wal-Mart Stores, said the retailer is rolling out handheld RFID interrogators to help store associates pick products that need to be brought out to the sales floor. He also said the chain was close to deploying its first forklift interrogator and is in the early stages of looking at wearable readers.
"In 2002, we were involved in the early implementation of RFID readers as part of the Auto-ID Center field trial," Langford told attendees of the RFID Academic Convocation, an invitation-only event held Jan. 23-24 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "Those early readers took hours to install and minutes to destroy. But we learned a lot, and we have been applying that knowledge."
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Mark Roberti is the founder and editor of RFID Journal LLC. He has
reported on business for major publications worldwide since 1985. Roberti's
work has appeared in Business 2.0, Fortune, The Industry Standard,
International Herald Tribune, The New York Times and numerous other
publications. In August 2001, Roberti was working on a cover story for The
Industry Standard about radio frequency identification, which he believed
would be the next major advancement in computing. The following year, he
launched RFID Journal on the Web as an independent source of news and
information for business and IT executives looking to tap RFID's enormous
potential. He is widely regarded as a thought leader in the RFID
industry.
