Our previous posts on RFID (1,2,3,4,5) failed to note the important role the Department of Defense is having on current RFID implementation:
Wal-Mart isn't the only organization with a January 2005 deadline. Although the U.S. Department of Defense has been working with RFID technology for more than a decade, the department has selected two pilot depots - one in California and another in Pennsylvania - to use the technology to hasten getting equipment, food and clothing to war theaters.This is a serious problem, if you intend to store all that data permanently, which seems rather pointless to me."Everybody's putting on those tags because of mandates by the Department of Defense and Wal-Mart," says Dr. Can Saygin, assistant professor of engineering management and systems engineering at UMR. "But companies don't know what to do with the data because the tags are going to tell you they are there every split second. If you start storing the data, you're going to need a lot of memory and capability to process the data and make sound decisions."
Posted by Kevin on January, 7 2005 at 11:09 AM
