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RFID: Living Up To Expectations? By Bert Moore, AIM Global
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A popular topic these days seems to be the slow growth of RFID in full-scale deployments across a broad range of applications. The implication is that RFID isn't delivering on its promise to bring about the "Internet of Things" and provide huge ROI. In fact, we should not be surprised by this. To really understand the state of RFID today, it's important to put the early expectations of the technology in perspective.
First and foremost, it's important to try to understand where these expectations came from and whether or not they were realistic.
Many of the high expectations for RFID came from visionary papers that described a future in which RFID had become nearly as ubiquitous as bar codes. In other words, these documents were intended to provide a road map to guide companies down the path to what could be because, in order to truly benefit from RFID's promise in the future, companies had to start moving in that direction today. In other words, these weren't intended to be used as benchmarks against which to measure the progress of RFID -- they were merely pointers to its future potential.
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