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Mar
18th
Emerging RFID Technology Trends

Jim Ferguson

As our readers are aware, we focus our RFID integration work primarily on ISO 18000-6C Gen2 UHF RFID projects. This focus fits a large number of inventory management applications for both IT and non-IT asset tracking applications that need a relatively long transmit range.

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Feb
27th
RFID Adoption Rate Forecasts and Other Thoughts

Jim Ferguson

Since about 2003, many experts have provided annual forecasts about how well RFID technology will satisfy various applications.

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Jan
28th
The Secret to Tracking Assets Using Passive RFID Portals

Jim Ferguson

In our earlier RFID Blogs, we've noted that one of the technical advantages of RFID over bar code approaches is an RFID system's inherent ability to conduct "automatic" reads as tagged assets enter or exit an area.

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Dec
19th
An End-of-Year Summary

Jim Ferguson

Here's the good news: The RFID market continues to grow.There are plenty of articles and studies available on-line or in the industry press about what shape the RFID industry is in and where this technology is headed.

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Nov
20th
The Hidden RFID Project Key to Success

Jim Ferguson

This blog space is dedicated to highlighting RFID issues for our readers that will not generally be found through a study of literature or via formal project management courses, but rather comes from on-the-ground experience designing and implementing RFID solutions for the end-user.

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Oct
22nd
Where's the RFID Beef?

Jim Ferguson

This month's blog is contributed by Dan Pecoraro, a Key Account Manager at Omni-ID, our primary Gen2 tag provider and a leading maker of on-metal, balanced and off-metal RFID tags. Dan has been working in RFID for over 8 years, creating RFID-based solutions for companies, governmental organizations and militaries around the world.

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Oct
2nd
An End-User's RFID Tag Product Update

Jim Ferguson

This month, we're taking some lessons learned from our RFID field installation experience and passing them on to you, the end-user, to help you identify what you need to know about RFID passive tags used in asset inventory applications without the hype and the marketing slant usually encountered by the end-user.

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Aug
13th
RFID Essential to Fulfilling Online Orders in Retail Outlets

Jim Ferguson

This month we're taking a look at the use of RFID by retailers. Our guest author is Michael Koploy. Michael is an Analyst at Software Advice, a website that provides reviews of retail and warehouse systems.

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Jul
19th
Top Ten RFID Asset Mgt/Inventory Project Client Questions (Continued)

Jim Ferguson

This month we will cover the final 5 of the Top Ten RFID Client Questions.

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Jun
18th
Top Ten RFID Asset Mgt/Inventory Project Client Questions

Jim Ferguson

This month we will cover the first 5 of the Top Ten RFID Client Questions...

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May
21st
Demand Increasing for UHF RFID Tags

Jim Ferguson

The ABI Research study mirrors our experience concluding that the overall largest growth in market value of any frequency is that of ultra high frequency (UHF).

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Apr
23rd
An Update on Passive vs. Active RFID

Jim Ferguson

Passive RFID tags significantly outsell their active RFID cousins in the marketplace due to four primary reasons.

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Mar
26th
Secret #2 to a Successful RFID Asset Management Project

Jim Ferguson

If your asset management project might include installing RFID portals...read on.

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Mar
5th
Secret #1 to a Successful RFID Asset Management Project

Jim Ferguson

Experience tells us that there are a couple of hidden issues or "gotchas" that only going through several RFID field implementations can expose. So this month let's explore the first of two secrets...

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Jan
31st
Active RFID, Passive RFID and Barcode - All Working Together

Jim Ferguson

We pointed out in that August blog that active and passive RFID solutions are not mutually exclusive nor competitive choices but rather should be considered as supportive approaches each often able to enhance the other in the same application.

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Jan
3rd
RFID and Cloud Computing

Jim Ferguson

In working with many different types of RFID projects over the years from standard RFID based inventory and audit projects to monitoring toxic gases to helping design work-in-process applications, there are certain successful RFID project characteristics that we consistently encounter, such as...

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Dec
7th
Passive RFID Portals - A Real World Opinion

Jim Ferguson

Most large companies have a wide range of potential passive RFID based asset tracking applications...

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Nov
7th
Data Center Environmental Monitoring - An RFID Approach

Jim Ferguson

This month I'd like to take a fresh look at one of the easiest, most cost effective and low risk RFID based data center projects you can get into: data center environmental monitoring.

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Oct
3rd
Data Center Management Software & RFID

Jim Ferguson

We're often asked early in an RFID project's discovery phase if we can integrate RFID generated information into the client's legacy asset management software package. Is it a big effort? Is it expensive?

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Sep
6th
Thoughts on an RFID Project Statement of Work

Jim Ferguson | COMMENTS (0)

An RFID Project SOW Template: Here’s a template that you can modify to meet your specific situation.

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Aug
1st
Passive and Active RFID - Competitors?

Jim Ferguson | COMMENTS (0)

For several years, RFID competitive product battles have waged between passive and active RFID component manufacturers.

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Jul
6th
Passive RFID Hardware, Tags, Software - What's Really Important?

Jim Ferguson | COMMENTS (0)

Back to the Future with RFID: Lessons learned - some old, some new.

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Jun
13th
Avoiding Fatal RFID Project Mistakes

Jim Ferguson | COMMENTS (0)

Ensure you have mitigated your risk of RFID Project failure.

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Jan
3rd
NASA Installs DataSpan's RFID System Solution

Jim Ferguson

Dallas, October 19, 2010 - NASA Installs DataSpan's RFID System Solution to Improve Tracking and Inventory of Data Center and Laboratory Assets.

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