Dennis Gaughan is a Research Director at AMR Research.
You remarked at the RFID Journal Live conference that the industry was in need of “evidence of a compelling business benefit for cross-enterprise RFID” and that “the content of the presentations is in dire need of a refresh.” Is the industry not moving fast enough or just not moving?
That depends on what part of the industry you are looking at. We do see some examples of benefits, but mostly for targeted, closed loop internal deployments. And it is nothing that people are willing to share publicly. It’s the cross-industry RFID that is not moving. Some of the response to my alert felt I should have gone further with my comments. One company lamented that I didn’t name the article “the RFID world is stuck reverse — Time for someone to turn off the motor”
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