Sensing RFID Sensors in the Value Chain...

Real-time business needs to predict, sense, and respond to market conditions. Making smarter decisions and reacting faster that the competition is a real source of advantage. Traditional RFID tag technology combined with RFID sensor technology can enable smart decision making further out in the value chain, closer to the material and its environment.

Take the example of materials with a shelf-life. The manufacture date, the item's age, material movements, and environmental conditions can be tracked from creation to current state in a sensor-enabled RFID tag. The monitoring of environmental conditions is supported by the convergence of sensors and RFID technology.

At any point in the supply chain, the object can communicate with the RFID information highway to report a richer and more complete status, and support decisions regarding its disposition in any next step in the value chain...

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