Posts by Ashish Chona

RFID has a lot of potential and promise, yet comes with considerable hype and unrealistic expectations that often cloud easy wins and attainable ROI. This key is finding value in the low-hanging fruit that simple, effective RFID solutions offer, and avoiding the pitfalls and complexity that turn simple implementations into never-ending science projects. This was…

Supply chain managers need to get ready for the next stage of the Internet of Things (IoT). Business research company IHS Markit forecasts that the IoT market will grow from an installed base of 15.4 billion devices in 2015 to 30.7 billion devices in 2020 and 75.4 billion in 2025. We are at a very…

Is the ownership/management/expertise of RFID tags, hardware, associated middleware, and application software core to your company, or is the resulting insight into business operations and decision support that the ensuing location and timely data core to how you run your business? Looking at an RFID as a Service (RaaS) model through the lens of a…

RFID is an emerging, albeit mature, technology. There is certainly no dearth of hardware or software options in today’s RFID solution marketplace. There is an abundance of varying hardware options (frequencies, functionality and application relevance, economics, etc.), a wide variety of RFID software applications (middleware, line of business, etc.), and complex back-end integration issues —…

Today’s tags, sensors and other RFID solutions provide unprecedented levels of information. With this deluge of data comes both opportunities and challenges when it comes to asset tracking using RFID and IoT-driven technologies. Companies have their own expertise within their business processes and how their assets relate to them, but building RFID solutions and managing…