RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAGS

Radio Frequency Identification Tags

Executive Summary

The technology of Radio Frequency Identification or RFID imparts wireless communication between the readers and the RFID tags and with the non line-of-sight readability. With these important characteristics, the RFID tags eradicate the need of entering the data manually and bring in the latent for automated procedures to enhance the cost efficiency, safety and productivity of the projects in a business organization. RFID has the potential to enhance and improve the performance and service of an organization having applied in quality control, safety, field operations, failure prevention, document control, service and maintenance, jobsite security, automated equipment control, tracking of equipment and tools, and product management.Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION4

RFID CONVENTIONS6

AIDC TECHNOLOGY8

RFID COMPONENTS10

RFID Tags11

Antenna12

Readers13

READ RANGES AND TAG FREQUENCY14

RFID APPLICATIONS15

RFID DATA MODEL USED IN A SUPPLY CHAIN16

Event Data17

Data Size18

RFID MIDDLEWARE FOR BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MODELS19

Data collection21

Data Routing and Management21

Process management21

Device Management22

INFERENCE23

REFERENCES27

Radio Frequency Identification Tags

Introduction

The applications of Electronic Product Codes or EPC and Radio Frequency Identification or RFID in the process management of businesses have a great potential in enhancing the efficiencies and effectiveness in finding solutions to the issues in business organizations. Electronic product code is the idea of hoarding the identification if products on chips that are of a size not greater than sand grain, then positioning these chips on the tags that are sequentially placed on the products for the order of being distinctively identified. The technology of RFID can trail the objects in the inventory more perfectly in real time, leading to abridged labour and processing time. The application of RFID varies from the production and supply of products like vehicles and their numerous parts to pharmaceutical package procedures, port and shipping operations, oil exploration, minting bank notes, etc (Angeles, pp. 51-65).

Radio Frequency Identification or RFID is a type of the technology of ADIC or Identification and Data Capture, which employs the magnetic or electric fields for the purpose of identification, validation, tracking, or automated acquisition and transmit of data, and support a huge variety of applications. The applications of RFID encompass everything for the tracking and management of assets to automated payment and access control. The systems of RFID are capable of articulating information all through the boundaries of an organization, like the applications of supply chain. One amongst the largest shoe companies of Europe, Reno GmbH, running approximately seven hundred stores in fifteen countries, intents to entrench wireless chips of RFID, in the shoes they sell at their stores, all through the continent. Reno uses the technology of RFID for tracking the shipments of their products from their factories to their outlets since a long time however they haven't yet employed the technology for tracking the individual goods within every store. These RFID chips that are thin like a wafer are particularly designed for shoes for its facilities of Asian production (Xiao, et. al, pp. 457-472). By integrating the RFID tags into their shoes, Reno intents to control larceny of packed products, the ones on the display and the shoes tried ...