Radio-frequency identification (RFID) has been a highly touted technology in recent years, but concerns — particularly among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) — about high costs and actual benefits have hindered its adoption.That’s gradually changing as developers and vendors focus on systems design, development and interoperability of specific applications in the public and private sectors.Leveraging the enhanced, more flexible and standardized interoperability inherent in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and on-demand Web services is enabling RFID tags and readers to be used in conjunction with other emerging low-power wireless network standards and technology, such as wireless sensors, actuators and the RuBee networking protocol.Coincidentally, a variety of new regulatory requirements regarding data security, e-payments, audit trails, asset tracking and traceability are now beginning to spur wider adoption, particularly in the financial, pharmaceutical, healthcare and travel and transportation industries.”It might be fair to say that RFID and — perhaps to a lesser extent WSN (wireless sensor network) — have gone through their early stages of the ‘hype curve’ (to use the Gartner term) typified by high exuberance followed by ‘troughs of disillusionment’ and are now back on their healthy growth curves of being applied in focused settings where their benefits are well understood rather… Read full this story
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