A recent article in RFID Journal makes interesting reading about how RFID is now moving beyond trials and is being adopted within companies.
Pulling the results together of various pilots and trials and implementing RFID throughout the organisation requires a new approach and it means someone having to pull best practices and corporate policies together.
The RFID Journal article discusses how a corporate blueprint must include the need to come up with a common approach to RFID data collection and how to calculate any RFID ROI as well as covering factors that can affect total cost of ownership (TCO), such as annual licensing fees and future upgrades.
This is an encouraging development and means that RFID has now become a serious enabler to be deployed in the continual drive to improve corporate processes. In other words, RFID has come from being that backrooom 'skunkworks' project, beyond the next step 'pilot/trial' phase, and is now a 'front-of-house' application worthy of corporate polices and procedures to support it.