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CIO on RFID

Long but thorough article on the benefits and pitfalls of implementing RFID technology in a retail organization.

RFID technology is going to generate mountains of data about the location of pallets, cases, cartons, totes and individual products in the supply chain. It's going to produce oceans of information about when and where merchandise is manufactured, picked, packed and shipped. It's going to create rivers of numbers telling retailers about the expiration dates of their perishable items - numbers that will have to be stored, transmitted in real-time and shared with warehouse management, inventory management, financial and other enterprise systems. Applications of RFID technology are also going to need to rely on a new kind of computing architecture known as edge computing, in which vast amounts of processing will take place at the edges of the enterprise's network rather than in corporate data centers. RFID, experts agree, is a transformational technology.

The article contains links to related articles ("sidebars") discussing consumer privacy concerns and other topics.

The RFID Imperative - Retail - prepare systems for RFID technology - CIO Magazine Dec 1,2003

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