The use of RFID technology in the healthcare arena holds enormous promise. It could lead to greater accuracy and efficiency in treating patients by making medical information immediately accessible to ...

Pitching wide-scale deployments of RFID (radio frequency identification) to companies that are already optimized around bar coding is a tough sell. That’s why the two technologies should be considered ...

April 1, 2002 – I often hear skeptics say that RFID will never take off because tags will never be as cheap as a bar code. Why? Because you can print a bar code right on the box or wrapping of an item ...

After barcodes were put into use more than 50 years ago, the technology revolutionized the grocery business. The technology also revolutionized nearly everything else in the supply chain and logistics ...