Chapter 4. Application Areas

The potential application of RFID technology is limited only to one's imagination. Although a popular belief holds that RFID is best suited to supply-chain management or consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries, the range of current RFID applications goes far beyond these areas. In fact, a variety of established RFID application types have already been deployed successfully in real-world environments. An application type consists of several different application members that share the same characteristics of the application type. These application types are denoted by the term prevalent in this book to emphasize that these are the most commonly applied areas of RFID today. Note, however, that this is not an official ...

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