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Seeking the next gen supply chain technology breakthroughs
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Category: RFID
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Mobile phone bar code scanners are coming to Britain. Bar codes that can be scanned by mobile phones allowing consumers to read more about a product are coming to Britain from Japan. The QR bar codes allow users to pick up information with the swipe of a mobile phone and have rapidly gained cult status…
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According to PE Hub, Cambridge radio frequency identification technology (RFID) developer ThingMagic, Inc. reports it has entered into a new partnership with power tool maker DeWALT and Ford Motor Company to equip new trucks with RFID-based asset tracking systems. The partnership will equip 2009 Ford F-150 and F-Series Super Duty pickup trucks, as well as…
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Wal-Mart’s Radio Tracked Inventory Hits Static by Gary McWilliams in the February 15, 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal details the well-known litany of problems that the world’s largest retailer is having with RFID. Not a lot of new news here–no savings for suppliers, difficulty with roll outs because of technology problems, human reluctance…
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For those of us who read the RFID publicity on a daily basis, there is one recurring theme–RFID implementation is proceeding in baby steps towards becoming a pervasive technology to allow anyone to track anything anywhere in the world at any time. But you would think from reading the PR blurbs that widespread RFID adoptions…
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Two investment areas interest me in the RFID space at present: software applications development and RFID related consulting: Applications attract me because they provide the underlying analysis, optimization and management capabilities needed to organize high frequency RFID/EPC data into useful business tools. Consulting interests me because business process redesign, implementation and maintenance to accommodate use…
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From the start-up’s perspective, the primary goal for the entrepreneur should be to understand where the sweet spots are in the value creation cycle and to clearly understand how they are going to achieve them. Using bar codes as an example, the now twenty-year long bar code adoption cycle began with the introduction of innovative…
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Although a wide variety of uses have been proposed for auto-ID technologies, three key applications are proving to be most popular with early adopters of RFID solutions: High value product and asset monitoring in the supply chain is the area commanding the most attention at the moment. Pfizer, for example, is using RFID to track…
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I recently attended and spoke at the Dow Jones VentureOne Summit 2006 in San Francisco. Dow Jones has hosted this summit for nine years and it is a quick way to get a look at 100 or so up and coming companies in a variety of industries and technologies. I was on the RFID panel…
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