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When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.
The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.
RFID is going to get its technical embedding time it needs as serious players are not going to get involved on a sufficient scale with something that might not work.
Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel.
They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production.
