Recent example of an RFID solutions implemented in a retail store
Brazilian retail store Memove using RFID solutions to track and control inventory. Memove’s clothing manufacturers in Brazil, China and elsewhere begin by sewing a passive RFID label into each item. With RFID label in place, items are carefully tracked as they make their way to the distribution centre and then to the store, their arrival automatically updates the store’s inventory system. Also on hand at each store is an RFID-enabled trolley that need only be rolled through the aisles to update inventory in minutes. Dressing rooms are connected as well so as to track how many items enter and leave each stall. Shoppers, meanwhile, can themselves check out securely by placing all their items in a dedicated RFID-enabled basket, which calculates the total price. Once the customer has paid either by cash, debit or credit card at the POS terminal, the basket automatically updates inventory and
erases each RFID label’s encoded ID number so that alarms won’t sound as the shopper exits the store.
Future of RFID technology
Effective RFID solutions depend on totally integrated systems that can assimilate data to create decision ready information, in addition to necessary sharing of information with retailers. This technology also has significant customer benefits which solidifies its adoption in retail Industry. The ability of retailer to monitor the shopping habits of the consumer in the store at the time of purchase using RFID will help retailer to better understand customer needs and thereby induce better relationship with the customers. This technology takes time to master and no one has completely mastered the current technology. RFID is an inevitable technology and business cannot ignore its vast potential and impacts but there are still uncertainties impeding its progress and acceptance in business world. The future for RFID is to develop more control from farther distances, becoming ubiquitous, ambient, more intelligent and thus making objects not only communicate with us, but to be smart and think for themselves and us. The future of identification technologies is to make RFID solutions more complex, applying advancing technologies such as Virtual Reality and Remote Access, to make tagged assets work for us in wider ranges and collect more and varied data.
A few potential areas of uses for RFID in the future can be:
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