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TRANSPORT & LOGISTICS REPORT * USA - RFID's Quiet Comeback
Warehouses are being changed from the inside out as radio frequency identification technology quietly spreads throughout supply chains
Las Vegas,NV,USA -Traffic World, by Alan Field -3 Nov 2008: -- ... Look at American Apparel. To display all its 26,000-plus SKUs on its store floors, the Los Angeles-based retailer keeps only one garment with each color and style on the floor at a time. Until recently, however, that caused big headaches - 10 percent of the items were getting lost in its stock rooms. So American Apparel applied RFID tags to every single item. That reduced time spent taking inventory by more than 80 percent and increased the accuracy of counts, said Zander Livingston, the company's RFID technology director... "Warehouse on Wheels": The companies will launch a service this fall to provide truckers with up-to-the-minute alerts about weather and traffic events so they can re-route shipments and avoid bottlenecks. The service, using technology developed for the Defense Department, marries RFID systems and geo-positioning technology to make it easier for trucking companies to warn customers about delays... Equally troubling, as RFID gains in popularity, is abuse by hackers. They've figured out how to produce counterfeit tags that they substitute for genuine tags on high-value products. This practice has allowed many counterfeiters to escape detection, despite the rise of RFID as a means to authenticate products... To address that challenge, Anant Agrawal, chief executive of Verayo, has introduced a new sort of RFID chip that cannot be cloned, using silicon biometrics technology. This process, developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will engrave a unique silicon fingerprint on each RFID tag...
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