RFID in production and service systems: Technology, applications and issues

摘要: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology used for identification of objects and information transfer from distance though radio waves. Different types RFID tags are different applications. Application areas include material handling, supply chain management, manufacturing, product lifecycle wide range systems healthcare to sports. Object standards enable tracking an object in the global range. Although number firms adopting continuously increasing, there still some unresolved issues with such as concerns data reliability, security, privacy, justification return on investment. This paper reviews recent literature technology, production area applications issues, clarifies future research directions.