RFID Technology and Its Applications in Today´s Business World

Today’s businesses are always looking for ways of making their workforce more efficient. With any vehicle fleet, fuel consumption is becoming a progressively larger cost to the business. And without accurate and real time data it’s very difficult to identify where they can make improvements, leaving their fleet operations without the tools they need to get the most from resources. Different types of GPS tracking and management systems gives you the tools you need to make positive changes, based upon accurate, up to date information. The transparency that GPS tracking and management systems make it possible for businesses to complete more jobs per week, reduce fuel costs, track scheduled maintenance, view proof of visit and time on site, optimize scheduling, routing, reduce administration and time sheets. There are multiple types of tracking systems all used for different types of businesses and workers, some of them are Radio Frequency Identification or RFID and Barcodes. Each one of these systems can hold information about a good or product. Also, businesses can figure out where they are wasting huge amounts of money and time where they should not be. This essay reviews RFID technology and its applications in today’s business world.

The roots of Radio frequency identification can be traced back to World War II. The British asked Watson Watt to lead a secret project, developing RFID to locate which planes were flown by the enemy and which were a country’s own pilots returning from a mission. They put transmitters on each plane they owned, which received signals from radar stations on the ground and broadcasted a signal back that identified the aircraft as friendly. And RFID basically works the same way. A signal is sent which is...

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...radio frequency identification has been around more than 50 years and it has only recently received its well-needed attention. Radio frequency identification is a technology using radio waves to find and monitor objects, including goods and services in the supply chains. Walmart put RFID on the map by using it in their stores, vehicles and supply chain. RFID technology is only going to improve safety, convenience, and inventory management but widespread adoption in retail operations could take several years. The healthcare sector has already started to adopt RFID into their day-to-day work system. They are able to use the RFID method in many different areas to save time, money and more importantly waste. Barcodes and RFID work smoothly together as of right now but more companies and organizations will start to use RFID tags once cheap disposable tags are developed.