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Pedro M. Reyes, Ph.D., is the managing director for the Center for Excellence in Supply Chain Management and an assistant professor in the Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University. He is a leading academic researcher in RFID supply chains and has seven academic articles that demonstrate RFID applications across several industries.
Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
Introduction and Overview | |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Brief History of Past Business Technologies | p. 3 |
What Is This Thing Called RFID? | p. 3 |
Why All the Hype? | p. 4 |
Motivation and Organization of this Book | p. 5 |
Basics of RFID | p. 5 |
EPCglobal | p. 6 |
Challenges and Issues | p. 7 |
Case Studies | p. 8 |
Summary and a Look Ahead | p. 9 |
RFID 101 | p. 11 |
RFID History | p. 11 |
Early History of RFID and Overview to Present | p. 11 |
History of Later RFID Developments | p. 12 |
Research on RFID in Supply Chains | p. 15 |
RFID Today | p. 16 |
RFID System Components | p. 19 |
RFID Tags | p. 19 |
RFID Antenna | p. 24 |
RFID Multiplexers | p. 26 |
RFID Readers | p. 26 |
RFID Printers | p. 27 |
Communication Infrastructure | p. 27 |
Advantages of RFID Technology | p. 29 |
Limitations of RFID Technology | p. 31 |
EPCglobal Overview and Standards | p. 33 |
EPC Tags | p. 34 |
Identity Tags | p. 34 |
Higher-Functionality Tags | p. 35 |
Battery-Assisted Passive Tags (Called Semipassive Tags in UHF Gen 2) | p. 35 |
Active Tags | p. 35 |
Standards | p. 36 |
EPCglobal Architecture Framework | p. 36 |
Exchange | p. 36 |
Capture | p. 38 |
Identify | p. 40 |
An Example: GS1 EPCglobal's RFID-Based EAS | p. 41 |
Source Tagging | p. 43 |
Issues and Challenges | |
Challenges in Designing RFID Applications | p. 47 |
Challenges | p. 47 |
Operational Challenges | p. 47 |
Technical Challenges | p. 47 |
Financial Challenges | p. 49 |
Security and Privacy Challenges | p. 49 |
Environmental Challenges | p. 49 |
RFID System Design | p. 49 |
Variables and Factors | p. 49 |
RFID Security and Privacy | p. 55 |
Security Implications and Privacy Threats | p. 57 |
RFID Security | p. 57 |
RFID Privacy | p. 58 |
Solutions to Security and Privacy Risks | p. 59 |
Business Analytics | p. 61 |
Investing in RFID | p. 61 |
Examples of RFID Implementation Successes | p. 62 |
ROI for RFID | p. 64 |
Business Processes Approach | p. 65 |
Business Options Approach | p. 66 |
Cost-Benefits Analysis Approach | p. 67 |
A Combination/Hybrid Approach | p. 67 |
ROI for Information Technology | p. 68 |
Case Examples | p. 68 |
RFID Frees Up Patient Beds | p. 68 |
RFID Synergy at a Netherlands Hospital | p. 71 |
Case Studies | |
Supply Chain Visibility | p. 77 |
Alliance, Seeonic, and UPM Raflatac Collaborate on Item-Level Retail Display | p. 77 |
Gillette (2006) | p. 79 |
Charles Vögele Group | p. 81 |
Intermountain Healthcare: Using RFID to Improve Laboratory Testing | p. 82 |
How It Works | p. 83 |
Input-Output Station | p. 83 |
Integris's Journey to RFID | p. 84 |
Memorial Hospital Miramar Benefits from a Real-Time Locating System | p. 86 |
Patient Tracking | p. 86 |
Improving Bed Turnover | p. 88 |
Building on Benefits | p. 88 |
Mississippi Blood Services Banks on RFID | p. 89 |
Asset Visibility | p. 93 |
Army Medical Center Looking to Boost Asset Awareness | p. 93 |
Asset Tracking Underway at WakeMed Cary Hospital | p. 93 |
Carolinas HealthCare System Deploying RTLS at Its 20 Hospitals | p. 95 |
AeroScout Unveils New Asset-Tracking Platform | p. 97 |
Denver Health Adopting a Hospital-Wide RTLS System | p. 98 |
Emory Healthcare Tracks Its Pumps | p. 100 |
German Researchers to Test Networking Tags for Assets, Blood | p. 102 |
Howard Memorial Finds RFID Keeps Assets from Getting Lost | p. 104 |
Jackson Memorial Enlists Thousands of RFID Tags to Track Assets | p. 106 |
North Carolina Hospital Looks to RadarFind to Improve Asset Visibility | p. 109 |
New York Medical Center Tracks OR Equipment for Trauma Care | p. 110 |
Philips Introduces Asset-Tracking System for Health Care | p. 112 |
PinnacleHealth Extends Asset Tracking to Community Hospital | p. 113 |
Work-in-Progress Tracking | p. 115 |
Pro-X Pharmaceuticals Seeks RFID for Internal Benefits | p. 115 |
RFID Helps Endwave Track Work in Progress | p. 117 |
RFID Illuminates Work in Progress for Neonlite | p. 119 |
Library Management System | p. 123 |
National Library Board Singapore | p. 127 |
Need for RFID System | p. 127 |
Deploying RFID | p. 128 |
Transforming the Organization | p. 130 |
Belgian University Library | p. 131 |
Winterthur Libraries | p. 131 |
Vienna Public Library | p. 132 |
Returnable Asset Tracking | p. 133 |
Australian Companies Say Pallet-Tracking Project Proves RFID's Mettle | p. 133 |
Rewe Deploying RFID Long-Range, Real-Time Locating System | p. 136 |
Summary and Looking Ahead | |
Summing It Up and Looking Ahead | p. 141 |
Challenges | p. 141 |
Benefits in the Supply Chain | p. 142 |
So, What's Next? | p. 144 |
Bibliography | p. 145 |
Index | p. 151 |
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