RFID Applications

RFID Applications are limited only by imagination! Many will become cost effective as the price of individual tags reduces with volumes manufactured, and other opportunities will be enabled as the technology develops. You can limit the search of the RFID Exchange database for companies to those that support the application areas below. Just click on the application title below:

• Supply chain automation - the key early driver for developments and implementation of the technology
• Asset tracking - tracking of assets in offices, labs, warehouses, pallets and containers in the supply chain, books in libraries
• Medical applications - linking a patient with key drugs, personnel giving the drugs, biometric measurements
• People tracking - security tracking for entrance management or security, contact management at events, baby tags in hospitals to manage access to post-natal wards
• Manufacturing - tracking of parts during manufacture, tracking of assembled items
• Retail - tracking store trolleys in supermarkets, active shelves
• Warehouses - Real-time inventory by automated registration of items in a warehouse or store-room
• Livestock - implanted RFID tags in animals for tracking and linking the animal to food, location. Applicable to farming as well as exotic breeds in zoos
• Timing - sports event timing to track athletes as they start a race and pass the finish line