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RFID Products

Unlike bar code products, RFID products are far from being commoditized, and though RFID is expected to be a growing industry, products designed for use in warehouses are still somewhat limited.

  • Alien Technology Readers, tags.

  • Matrics RFID Readers, tags.

  • Texas Instruments  Readers, tags

  • Avery Dennison  Tags

  • Intermec RFID tags, readers, and a developer kits.

  • LXE  RFID readers

  • Symbol  RFID readers.

  • Zebra Printers capable of encoding RFID chips embedded in "smart labels" and printing text, graphics, and bar codes on the label in a single process.

  • Sato  Printers capable of encoding RFID labels.

  • Active Wave RFID tags, readers, programmers, and software.

  • Psion Teklogix Readers

  • TEK Industries  RFID readers and programmers.

  • Quelis Id Systems  Tags

  • RF Code  Tags, readers, software, and evaluation kits.

  • Excort Memory Systems  RFID systems

  • CopyTag RFID readers

  • SkyeTek  Readers, writers, smartlabels, and tags.

  • RFind  Real-time locating system

  • IDSystems

  • RFID Info Sites

  • RFID Journal  If you have a serious interest in RFID, I suggest checking out the RFID Journal. The site has a great FAQ page, RFID glossary, and detailed vendor listing. Some of the content (articles, case studies) requires paid subscription.

  • howstuffworks: How RFID Works  Nice tutorial on RFID

  • RFIDtalk.com  Online forum dedicated to RFID.

  • RFIDlog.com  A frequently updated listing of articles related to RFID.

  • RFID Times  Another frequently updated listing of articles related to RFID.

  • RFID Gazette And yet another frequently updated listing of articles related to RFID.

  • RFID.ac  Forums, links, downloads, articles, all focused on RFID.

  • RFID Update  Page dedicated to RFID from InventoryOps.com

  • RFID Lowdown  RFID news and information.

  • RFID weblog  RFID articles

  • RFID white papers. Very informative papers available from Zebra Technologies.

  • RFID.org Part of the AIM site.

  • Uniform Code Council  Establishes and promotes multi-industry standards for product identification and related electronic communication. Info on bar code symbologies, compliance labeling, EPC, XML.

  • AutoID.org  This page from autoid.org allows you to download some useful documents. I recommend downloading MH108_03051_EPCglobal_Brief.zip ,  a PowerPoint presentation on EPC.

  • AIDC 100  This is a not-for-profit organization of AIDC professionals.  Very interesting reading on their Opinions Page.

  • RFID Centre  Good informational site on RFID from the UK.

  • RFID Solutions Online

  • Spychips.com  Interested in privacy concerns related to RFID? This site put out by CASPIAN focuses on these issues. Yes, it's biased, but so are all the other sites listed on this page.

  • RSA Security  Documentation of the "Blocker tag" designed to confuse RFID readers.

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