RFIDNews | Is RuBee the next generation of RFID?

Thursday, March 15, 2007

The race is on to see if this hot new technology will be an alternative, or a complement, to RFID

By David Wyld, Contributing Editor

What if there was a technology that one-upped RFID? What if there was a way to have continuous identification, but without the extreme size, cost, and limited life of active RFID? What if there was a way to gain far greater read ranges? What if there was a way to overcome the problems of reading around water and metal that have been the operational “Achilles’ heels” of item-level RFID? That possibility exists today in the form of RuBee. Already heralded by industry observers as “RFID 2.0,” RuBee may be the most exciting development in the automatic identification marketplace. This article is a primer on RuBee and its potential prominent place in the auto-ID market.

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