Fitting RFID to the Business

Earlier this year, I wrote here about the importance of taking an operational “process approach” when designing the best type of Auto ID solution for managing assets.  Whether it’s passive or active RFID or GPS – or a combination of wireless devices – the underlying business application and processes must be understood beforehand.  Otherwise, the implementation just becomes another science experiment.

Here, I want to focus more on how RFID and Auto ID solutions must adapt to each business area’s processes even if they seem to be the same across government and commercial enterprises.  We have discovered over more than two decades of providing Auto ID solutions for supply chain and asset management that wireless solutions must fit the existing process – not the other way around. (more…)

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Project Volcano Erupts; Winners Showered with Free Savi Developer Tools

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Nov. 1, 2010 – Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin company [NYSE: LMT] and leading provider of wireless solutions to manage smart assets, today announced Project Volcano, an industry wide challenge for developers to explode onto the scene and create new ways that everyone can benefit from wireless technology.  The best ideas will be awarded with Savi Developer Tools leveraging best-of-breed software and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) hardware to build solutions, which could range from tracking your missing car keys or children by cell phone to remotely monitoring the moisture in your lawn, smog indexes or electricity consumed in a facility. (more…)