RFID Tracking

RFID Tracking technology called radio frequency identification (RFID) is poised to become an invisible and ubiquitous part of our daily lives - unless we act to ensure that its use is controlled. The focus of increasing concern among privacy advocates, RFID tags are tiny electronic computer chips used to pinpoint the physical location of whatever item the tags are embedded in. While RFID Tracking may seem like a convenient way to track items, it's also a convenient way to do something less benign: track people and their activities through their belongings.

RFID Tracking greatly improves inventory management and optimizes resources. RFID Tracking has applications to the tracking of any product which cannot be bar-coded. RFID Tracking can be used for tracking coal, cement, and any metal ore including iron, gold, uranium, chrome, copper or diamonds, liquids like milk or petroleum, or agricultural products like grain, corn, wheat or coffee. RFID Tracking may also easily be applied to tracking boxes of bulk manufactured goods like clothing and textiles, airport baggage, food and any warehousing application.

The greatest advantage of RFID Tracking systems is their ability to scan books on the shelves without tipping them out or removing them. A hand-held inventory reader can be moved rapidly across a shelf of books to collect all of the unique identification information. Using wireless technology, it is possible not only to update the inventory, but also to identify items which are out of proper order. RFID Tracking can help companies overcome this and many other obstacles.

3M RFID Tracking Solutions: 3M RFID Tracking Solutions enable you to easily locate, inventory, and check in/check out files. Line-of-sight physical scanning, as with barcodes, is no longer required. The RFID tag will be automatically read through file folders and documents.

Key Benefits of 3M RFID Tracking Solutions:

• Makes checking out files so easy, everyone will do it!
• Reduces time to take an inventory from days to hours.
• Reduces stress and frustration in all levels of organization due to missing critical files.
• Increases productivity and reduces man-hours associated with managing files.
• Shows complete history or movement of files.

3M™ RFID Tracking Tag: 3M™ RFID Tracking Tag is a paper-thin label that can electronically identify whatever it's attached to. A tagged item can be identified whenever it is within range of a reader - you no longer have to line up barcodes. You can even process more than one item at a time. A 3M™ RFID Tracking Pad can be used to program 3M™ RFID Tracking Tags. After the 3M™ RFID Tracking Tag is programmed, it is attached to a file or folder. It can be placed either on the inside or outside of a file.

RFID Tracking devices offer many advantages over bar-code systems, including:

• No line of sight required. Physical contact is not required between the data carrier and the communication device. For the typical retailer, this means that instead of having to walk down each aisle within a store or warehouse to take inventory, workers can execute a command somewhere within that same building and complete the inventory calculation in minutes. The savings of time and money can be enormous, as can increases in accuracy and data availability.
• Read/write capabilities can be performed within the same assembly line or remotely across continents.
• Mobile tracking devices can be reused or disposed, as the RFID operation requires.
• RFID ensures a 100-percent scanning achievement rate in the first pass of the item being scanned. This compares very favorably with the best bar-code systems that still experience a 2 to 3 percent failure rate in first passes.