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Understanding the Wal-Mart Initiative: Making Sense of EPC Standards and Wal-Mart RFID Requirements

whitepaper This paper attempts to better clarify these emerging standards created by EPCglobal (formerly the MIT Auto ID Center) and place them in perspective of how to effectively meet the Wal-Mart requirements.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, rfid, suppliers, mart

[26 Jul 2007]

RFID White Paper: Technology, Systems, and Applications

whitepaper RFID is one of several technologies collectively known as Auto-ID procedures - procedures for identifying objects automatically. Companies are increasingly deploying Auto-ID procedures in their supply chains.

Tags: objects, procedures, rfid, auto

[09 Jul 2007]

Developing Auto-ID Solutions Using Sun Java System RFID Software

whitepaper This paper describes how to develop RFID solutions using the Sun Java System RFID Software, and will help the developer understand the architecture, design and implementation. The paper includes a sample application for download, SampleRFID.

Tags: java, rfid, configure, paper describes

[06 Jul 2007]

An Introduction to RFID in the Supply Chain

whitepaper A staple of hardware and software standards around RFID created by the Auto-ID Center and EPCglobal, and now expanded and put into practical use by application companies such as MARC Global and RFID infrastructure companies such as OATSystems, has...

Tags: middleware, rfid, chain, supply chain

[04 Jul 2007]

The Impact of Inventory Inaccuracy on Retail Supply Chain Performance: A Simulation Study

whitepaper Even if information technology (e.g. EDI) is used within a supply chain to share information on end-customer demand and inventory levels, there is still often a discrepancy between the data on customer demand or inventory levels in information...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, inventory, supply chain, levels

[03 May 2007]

Crafting Your Own Index: Why, When, How

whitepaper SAS auto-maintains its indexes, which is splendid. Given a key, the file is searched and, if the key is found, its record ID is returned and used to retrieve the data file record. A SAS index is a search file associated with a data file.

Tags: knowledge and data management, search, file, indexes

[21 Dec 2006]

Sun Shines on Automatic-ID

whitepaper The Auto-ID Center has been dominated by retailers and consumer packaged goods companies. The company actually got involved with RFID, even before the Auto-ID Center was created. Sun Microsystems was the first large, high-tech manufacturing company...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, rfid, johnson, auto id center

[15 Nov 2006]

13.56 MHz ISM Band Class 1 Radio Frequency Identification Tag Interface Specification: Candidate Recommendation, Version 1.0.0

whitepaper This paper specifies the radio frequency communication interface and Reader commanded functionality requirements for an Auto-ID Center Class I Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) Tag operating in the 13.56 MHz ISM frequency band.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, radio, frequency, identifier

[15 Nov 2006]

860MHz - 930MHz Class I Radio Frequency Identification Tag Radio Frequency & Logical Communication Interface Specification Candidate Recommendation, Version 1.0.1

whitepaper This paper specifies the radio frequency communication interface and Reader commanded functionality requirements for an Auto-ID Center Class I Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) Tag operating in the frequency range of 860MHz-930MHz.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, radio, frequency, identifier

[15 Nov 2006]

Auto-ID Center Working to Drive Down Retail Costs

whitepaper Today retailers, manufacturers, technology companies, standards organizations, and academia are working with the Auto-ID Center - a nonprofit global research organization created by MIT, UCC/EAN, Gillette, and Procter & Gamble in response to MIT's...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, identification, mit, auto id center

[14 Nov 2006]

Auto-ID Momentum Continues

whitepaper In just over two years, the promise of Auto-ID is quickly becoming reality. When the sponsors of the Auto-ID Center set the goal of creating five-cent Radio-Frequency-IDentification (RFID) tags, there were plenty of skeptics.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, radio frequency identification, auto, auto id

[14 Nov 2006]

Save Billions With Auto-ID

whitepaper Auto-ID can do more than that. According to a recent study by Accenture, a leading management consulting and technology services company, Auto-ID technologies could save manufacturers and retailers billions of dollars each year.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, auto id, consulting, computers

[14 Nov 2006]

Release of EPC Standards Jump-Starts Auto-ID Development

whitepaper More than 2,000 people are expected in Chicago on September 15 for the opening of the Auto-ID Center's EPC Executive Symposium. Excitement has been building in the retail industry, because the symposium will formally launch the first platform of...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, radio frequency identification, auto, auto id

[14 Nov 2006]

Next Generation: Gillette on the Cutting Edge of Auto-ID Technology

whitepaper Great products and dedicated, hardworking people are critical to success in any industry. But to succeed in the competitive retail industry, another key is developing and improving relationships with suppliers and partners.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, chain, customer service, dedicated

[14 Nov 2006]

Improve Safety and Lower Costs With Auto-ID

whitepaper Auto-ID technology is often trumpeted as a boon for companies that have large merchandise inventories to manage and track. Short for Automatic Identification, Auto-ID is all about visibility. With respect to healthcare, Auto-ID is being universally...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, automatic, auto id, radio frequency id

[14 Nov 2006]

New Processes Driving Down Costs of RFID Tags

whitepaper There's been a lot of talk recently about the momentum behind Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) tags utilizing Auto-ID technology. But the product line manager for the Sun Auto-ID Infrastructure Solution (in the newly formed Sun Auto-ID...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, radio frequency identification, auto, auto id

[14 Nov 2006]

Advancing the Retail Supply Chain Infrastructure

whitepaper The MIT Auto-ID Center - along with Sun Microsystems, Procter & Gamble, and Target Corporation - has created a pilot implementation of just such a system, called a-Biz. With Wal-Mart requiring all of its supplier shipments to incorporate RFID tags...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, sun microsystems, electronic product codes, tags

[14 Nov 2006]

Tag, You're Late

whitepaper In 1999, MIT founded the Auto-ID Center to look more closely at how RFID technology could help businesses track and manage products using embedded sensors. The center proposed an electronic product code, or EPC, as the latest method for identifying...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, auto id center, rfid, radio

[09 Nov 2006]

RFID Technology: A Roadmap to Success

whitepaper In fact, RFID made a dramatic and forceful appearance in retail largely due to the work of the Auto-ID initiative. To understand the clear gap between Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) aspiration and reality, one has to look at the technology's...

Tags: rfid, radio frequency identification, auto id, world war ii

[13 Jun 2006]

Protecting Safety and Improving Efficiencies in the Health Care Supply Chain - Using Electronic Product Codes

whitepaper Based on the committee's work with the Auto-ID Center since October 2002, the committee, have concluded that the combination of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system and a unique numbering system that delivers mass serialization offers...

Tags: commerce, supply chain, committee, supply

[14 Feb 2006]

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