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We have broad knowledge & practical understanding of the wide range of technologies able to deliver automatic identification & data capture (AIDC).
Our personnel have been responsible for initiating and progressing many of the UK’s leading innovative RFID projects. This has included work for retailers such as Marks & Spencer and for consumer goods companies including Unilever, Nestle, Kimberly-Clark & Robert Wiseman Dairies.
They have also been successful in leveraging government funding for innovative development projects through a leading role in the £5.5 million Home Office ‘Chipping of Goods’ initiative and the DTI Centre for Information on the Move Systems.
Both these Initiatives provided significant funding to support the collaborative large-scale piloting of RFID systems in business operations. One of these, Marks & Spencer’s ‘Intelligent labels’ initiative has become the largest single project in the world, tagging over 100 million clothing items every year.
Thus Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems of various types are being applied successfully to improve the visibility & hence availability of products and assets. Yet adoption in many supply chains presently remains relatively slow, because consumer goods manufacturers are unable to fully justify investment in RFID technology, although the installed base of fixed RFID reader portals and hand held terminals in the USA and Europe is growing.
It is however becoming increasingly recognised that RFID is only one part of the technology required to deliver ‘intelligent product tracking’ solutions. These systems rely not only on having a unique electronic number such as an EPC code, but also require a way of monitoring location and, for perishable goods, monitoring temperature.
To help companies seeking to manage, or exploit, RFID, AIDC and intelligent tracking IPI (Europe) offers sector specific services, in addition to its normal services, to:
- help you understand what is going on with the technologies that are enabling the development of new generation product tracking systems.
- show how they should best be deployed to deliver a viable return on investment
IPI (Europe)’s contribution is a key component in the production of a report ‘RFID meets BRAND PROTECTION’ due to be published in the autumn of 2009 by Vandagraf International.
IPI’s sector specific services in Intelligent tracking
Understanding & Exploiting AIDC & RFID Technologies for Asset Management
This service delivers expert advice on which AIDC technologies are best suited for any asset management application; e.g. in the oil & gas, automotive or aerospace industries.
We can show how different technologies can be used effectively together to deliver the best ROI and create exploitation road maps for investment.
The EPC RFID Starter Programmes®
A specially designed series of programmes to assist companies at any level in the supply chain needing to deploy EPC RFID systems.
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