Compliance Remains King among Consumer Goods Manufacturers Says ABI Research, but Other Benefits Begin to Prompt RFID Adoption (click here)
Last update: 10:03 a.m. EDT Oct. 1, 2008
...According to research director Michael Liard, "While compliance remains the primary motivator for RFID uptake in the consumer goods sector (in contrast to the overall RFID market) respondents to this ABI Research survey cited three other considerations that increasingly influence their decisions to trial and deploy the technology. They are: ease of scalability, business process improvement, and removal of human intervention."...
But is 'securing' inventory paying off? Is 'compliance adding expense to consumer products in a way that burdens inventories?
Attrition is a fact of life in the marketing of any product. That attrition should be statistically tracked and added into cost components for products. There is nothing wrong with security and maintaining the integrity of inventories from theft and fraud, however, the 'idea' that every item can be tracked to purchase is a bit 'ideological.'
There was a time when this form of 'inventory tracking' was considered a benefit to national security. Has that proven to be the case or does this overburden business costs with components of unproven fear?
At the borders of the USA, do we want machines dictating the traffic across those borders?
I don't think so. There is nothing like finger prints or retinal scans to insure compliance with indenity 'insurance.' Scanners that are also double checked by human contact.
(click title to entry. thank you) ....The information in these tags could be copied on to another, off-the-shelf tag, which might be used to impersonate the legitimate holder of the card if a U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents at the border see the card itself, the researchers said.
Another danger is that the tags can be read from as far as 150 feet away in some situations, so criminals could read them without being detected. Although the tags contain personal information, they could be used to track a movements through ongoing surveillance, they said.
Another danger is that hackers could cause EDLs to self-destruct by sending out a certain number, they said....
