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Rfid, An Automated Identification And Data Collection ( Aidc )

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Radio Frequency Identification, or as it is more commonly known, RFID, is an automated identification and data collection (AIDC) technology. From access cards to passports to toll tags RFID has now become ubiquitous as an integral part of our daily lives.
RFID is a small electronic device that consist of a small chip and an antenna. The chip typically is capable of carrying 2,000 bytes of data or less. RFID technology has been available for more than fifty years. It has only been recently that the ability to manufacture the RFID devices has fallen to the point where they can be used as a "throwaway" inventory or control device.

It’s been a decade since Wal-Mart told its top suppliers that the world’s largest retailer would charge a fee for each pallet of goods they shipped without a radio-frequency identification tag to the giant Sam’s Club distribution center in Texas. The bold initiative came at a time when many technology pundits were touting the long-term benefits RFID would provide, not just to Wal-Mart but also to its suppliers. Much like e-commerce, hailed during the late 1990s as the death knell of brick-and-mortar retailing, RFID systems were oversold as essential and inevitable, despite much corporate resistance.
The “hype cycle” about RFID climaxed a few years later when it became clear the technology was too costly and difficult to implement. A decade later, the hype has gone with the wind, but item-level RFID technology is playing a much more important role

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