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Preface
RFID AND AIT IN PLANNING AND LOGISTICS
The use of RFID technology is becoming increasingly popular due to the perceived reduction in
costs that it may bring to the operational costs. In 2003, we opened the RFID and Supply Chain
Logistics Lab at the University of Nebraska, one of the rst RFID labs focused on RFID and
logistics. We believed that RFID technology was not mature enough to enter mainstream logistics
operations and that an unbiased application lab was the best way to test and prove concepts prior
to operational deployment. The academic lab setting would provide the researchers an opportunity
to test the applications unl ...