Adoption Of RFID Technology Research Articles

EROI development and validation of a framework to assess the return on the environment of RFID deployment

This study is grounded in the growing significance of environmental sustainability and the widespread adoption of RFID technology across various industries and is aimed to explore the influence of RFID implementation in supply chains by developing a tool that calculates the net balance of CO2 annual emissions. The tool, known as “Return on the Environment” (EROI), is based on a widely accepted environmental assessment method and it calculates the Global Warming Potential (GWP100) incurred and avoided at various stages in the supply chain strictly related to RFID technology introduction. To validate the tool, two RFID deployments have been assessed: one involving a pharmaceutical product tagged on its secondary packaging to monitor the flow of products through the distribution channel, and another a medical device tagged on both primary and secondary packaging to oversee product flow from the supplier distribution center to the hospital operating theatres. In both cases, the results indicate that implementing RFID technology reduced GWP100 compared to the scenarios without RFID. This was primarily due to decreased product shrinkage, lower missing or expired products, and reduced additional transportation due to shipping errors. The tool is versatile and it could be applied to any type of product, serving as a source of inspiration for those who want to assess the sustainability of RFID technology not only from an economic perspective, i.e. ROI calculation, but also from an environmental view. Future work will address the third level of sustainability, RFID social sustainability, that is the impact RFID deployments may have on empowering people, improving staff and employees working conditions, and creating possibilities for high-value job opportunities.

Using RFID in the Engineering of Interactive Software Systems: A Systematic Mapping

IoT, Industry 4.0, and ubiquitous applications demand an intense exchange of information between actors (humans, animals, plants, or other objects) and things. Different interaction technologies, techniques, and methods can support it, including RFID, a well-known technology capable of identifying and locating actors. However, the variety of application domains and interaction possibilities jeopardize the use of RFID without a clear understanding of its usage issues. Therefore, we have performed a systematic mapping to characterize the adoption of RFID technology in this kind of interactive software system by intercepting human-computer interaction and software engineering issues. Our goal is to reveal (i) which application domains address RFID; (ii) why RFID is used instead of other technologies; (iii) who interacts through RFID and how the interaction is; (iv) what are the requirements and limitations associated with it; and (v) what are the common quality characteristics and measures which should be considered for their evaluation. The results showed that (i) RFID is specially used for implementing implicit interactions in healthcare, embedded systems, and manufacturing applications. (ii) Passive UHF RFID is usually adopted due to being contactless, low-cost, and well-performing indoors. (iii) It interacts with humans and things in the same proportion, most frequently to collect locations of sensor data constantly. (iv) RFID presents limitations, such as causing electromagnetic interference and not working well near metallic walls. However, tags work under high temperatures and can be well hidden in cement or clothes. (v) Interactive system designers usually create applications with invisible infrastructures, which tend to keep users' focus on the real world.?

RFID in Industry 4.0

The advent of Information and Communication Technology brought some advances in the field of Operations Management. RFID, when used as Ordering Coordination System, provides benefits not only for Production Control but also for some organisational functions that support the manufacturing sector. To identify these benefits, this work used a Systematic Literature Review. The results presented 15 benefits, classified into 4 areas that impact the Shop Floor Control and a framework containing the information flow necessary to operationalise the SFC 4.0. The discussion presented some insights relating the benefits with the maturity level of the entire SFC ecosystem when adopting RFID technology as an Ordering Coordination System and a brief agenda for future studies in this field of knowledge. It was possible to conclude that although the use of RFID is not new, its use as a premise for SFC operationalisation is yet in its initial stage of maturity, which could be reinforced by the fact that the most cited benefits were related to the initial stage of informational flow presented in the framework.

RFID: The Silver Bullet towards Seamless Indian Petro Retail Customer Service

Objective: To explore the applicability and Impact of deploying an RFID solution on customer identification, personalization, and satisfaction at a fuel retail outlet. Method: A live outlet was chosen in Delhi, where an RFID solution was deployed for six months, from January to June 2022. The study is carried out on the data gathered during the period. Findings: RFID implementation can yield significant benefits towards customer identification, increased operational efficiency, and customer acquisition & retention, thus leading to increased revenue. The result showed that 74.5% of customers became more satisfied with automatic identification and personalization, incl digital greetings and fueling confirmation through SMS. Novelty: The study is original towards applying RFID-based solutions to customer experience in Indian Petro Retail. While similar technologies have been tried for customer identification purposes, our study attempted to test the Impact of RFID technology adoption on customer satisfaction and enhancement of experience during their fueling journey. Keywords: RFID; Indian fuel retail; RFID in Oil & Gas; Customer Experience; Customer Identification

Making Investment Decisions on RFID Technology: An Evaluation of Key Adoption Factors in Construction Firms

The importance of RFID technology is increasing as a means of enhancing productivity and efficiency, and reducing costs. The purpose of this research paper is to study the influence of technological, organizational, environmental, and innovation factors on the adoption of RFID technology by construction companies in Australia. With the growth of Australia's economy, in particular, the construction sector, the logistics departments in construction companies should pay attention to the adoption of more efficient technologies to provide better services for their customers. This paper provides a consolidated framework of RFID technology adoption based on studies on RFID technology adoption in particular from an IS perspective. The paper combines an integrated model of the Technology-Organization-Environment framework, the Diffusion of Innovation theory, and Actor-Network Theory to establish a more comprehensive innovation adoption framework for RFID technology. The data gathered to study the factors affecting the adoption of RFID technology are analysed from the results of a survey of construction companies in Australia, in which 297 Information Technology (IT) staff were participants in this research. The research results show that the factors which had a statistically significant and positive impact on the adoption of RFID services in construction companies were: relative advantage, compatibility, cost, expected benefits, top management support, external support and organization size. The findings from this research study have the potential to provide insights to firms seeking to make investment decisions on the adoption of RFID technology.

RFID Technology Based on Internet of Things in Public Library

The goal of this article is to study the application of Internet of Things RFID technology in public libraries, and to find better algorithms to improve the efficiency of RFID technology in public libraries. The method is to find the problems that affect the efficiency of the RFID system according to the actual needs of the system in the public library, and try to optimize and improve the algorithm. This article first uses the principle of RFID technology as an entry point and introduces the principle of pure ALOHA algorithm in detail. Given its throughput rate curve with the amount of communication tags, this paper introduces the improved frame slot ALOHA algorithm based on the slot ALOHA algorithm. Then it introduces the tag quantity estimation mechanism, tag polling mechanism and privacy protection mechanism, analyzes several commonly used RFID tag quantity estimation mechanisms, and discusses the three RFID privacy protection mechanisms in detail and compares them with each other. Finally, the application of RFID technology in public libraries in China and the United States in the past decade has been investigated. It is found that the number of public libraries in both countries adopting RFID technology is in a rapid growth trend and the use rate of book tags and bookshelf tags is high. The experimental results show that compared with the pure ALOHA algorithm, the frame slot ALOHA algorithm has a significant increase in throughput. When the frame length is equal to the number of tags to be read, the throughput rate reaches the highest 36.78%. As the frame length is closer to the value of the tag to be read, the system efficiency is higher, so in practical applications, the dynamic frame slot ALOHA algorithm can be used, so that the frame length can be adjusted in real time according to the number of tags, which can effectively maintain the highest efficiency in real time.

RFID Technology Adoption Rate in Warehousing: A Study of Manufacturing Companies in Johor

RFID Technology Adoption Rate in Warehousing: A Study of Manufacturing Companies in Johor

Optimization of Query Processing Time using Taguchi Method for RFID Data Management

Background: RFID technology is being adopted by a number of applications including supply chain management. Due to the adoption of RFID technology challenging problems have appeared. The RFID database system handles huge amounts of path oriented, time dependent data. Methods: This paper focuses on minimizing the query processing time by using Taguchi optimization method. Simulations show how the factors considered impact RFID data processing efficiency. Findings: So the effectiveness of the system depends on the factors such as the number of tags accessed at a time, the data preprocessing techniques adopted, and selection of suitable indexing techniques and so on. However, few of the techniques adopted by existing methods focus on the efficiency of RFID data processing. Applications/Improvements: Taguchi method is applied to predict the best design combinations that achieve minimum query processing time.

RFID in US hospitals: an exploratory investigation of technology adoption

Purpose Radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems are transforming hospital operations by improving care and reducing costs. However, hospital managers have some concerns about adopting RFID technologies. These are cost, return on investment, privacy and other technology issues. This study examines RFID adoption in health-care industry based on the Technology-Organization-Environment framework. This paper aims to demonstrate how US hospitals are adopting RFID technologies and make recommendations, using empirical data. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was sent to Chief Information Officers and the top information technology (IT) executives of US acute care hospitals to determine the extent to which hospitals have implemented RFID technologies including the reasons, concerns and applications of RFID technologies, and the antecedents of RFID adoption in hospitals. Findings The study found that a high percentage of respondents have adopted or are considering adopting RFID technology as a new management tool. Organizational and technological factors have strong positive influence on adoption, whereas environmental factors do not significantly affect the adoption decisions. The main reasons for implementing RFID technology are improved hospital operations, including inventory management, asset control, workflow and patient flow. Some of the concerns are cost of RFID tags and cost associated with implementation. Research limitations/implications This study is limited to a small sample (n = 86) of US hospitals. This study should continue to be replicated in the future, as adoption of RFID technologies matures in the health-care sector. Originality/value This study informs health-care managers on the challenges and opportunities of RFID by identifying motivations, barriers and issues related to RFID adoption. The findings of this study will expand the emerging literature and provide direction to academicians for further research in technology adoption.

Improving sales turnover in fashion retailing by means of an RFID-based replenishment policy

In this paper, we aim to provide evidence of the capability to generate an increase in sales turnover by implementing an RFID-based system able to improve the shelf replenishment operations, reducing stock-out situations in fashion retailing. To evaluate the increase in sales turnover, we developed a pilot project involving a store of a major fashion firm located in northern Italy. RFID technology was used to generate daily a list of models that turned out to be available in the backroom, but not on the shelves (referred to as scandals), to drive employees in the replenishment process. By subsequently monitoring the consumer's purchase, we estimated the contribution of RFID technology to the store turnover. We found that increasing the availability of products (and of scandals in particular) on the shelves leads to a significant increase in the sales volume. Moreover, the availability of those products on the shelves stimulates the customers to ask for different sizes or colours of the items exposed, generating further potential for sales increase. The results of this study may encourage fashion retailers to invest in RFID technology, whose cost often appears as high, since the increase in turnover can significantly contribute to recover the initial investment required. Also, since we carried out an in-field implementation, targeting a real scenario of the fashion industry, our results are realistic, solid and reliable. Fashion retailers can look at them as a concrete possibility to improve their business by adopting RFID technology.

RFID technology: a retrospective look at firm adoption with a view towards the future

This study examines the earliest stage of RFID technology development and the factors that led firms to adopt RFID technology, so as to establish a baseline to examine the present adoption of the technology. We looked for differences between voluntary and required adoption of RFID, and factors that increased the likelihood of voluntary RFID adoption. It was found that firms required to adopt RFID technology did so with a limited number of customers, while those that voluntarily adopted RFID technology did so with more customers. Firms voluntarily choose to adopt RFID technology due to external pressure, a weak power position in the supply chain and a history of prior technology adoption. Positive perceptions of the usefulness and ease of use of RFID technology increased the likelihood of RFID adoption. Several research questions are posed that when investigated, would provide insights into the changes that have occurred in the industry.

RFID-enabled indoor positioning method for a real-time manufacturing execution system using OS-ELM

Manufacturing execution systems (MES) have recently been introduced to monitor various manufacturing objects (MOs) in dynamic shop floors; they can leverage the efficiency of information flow across functional layers for planning and control. However, current MES practices using traditional indoor positioning algorithms face several difficulties in tracking MOs for wireless manufacturing: (1) inefficient wireless data acquisition in the shop-floor environment, (2) lack of a reliable and accurate real-time signal processing method for handling massive signal data, and (3) the positions of reference objects cannot be treated as in a static environment when unknown manufacturing orders arrive in a streaming manner. This paper proposes to handle the first challenge by adopting RFID technology that can constantly capture the wireless signals sent from tags mounted on various MOs. The second difficulty can be solved by applying the online sequential extreme learning machine (OS-ELM) that inherits the elegant properties of ELM in terms of extremely fast learning speed and high generalization performance. The OS-ELM based positioning method also addresses the third issue in which an online localization model has been constructed in a streaming manner. The proposed method can greatly reduce the training time without costly retraining of the previously trained data together with the newly arrived data. With the novel OS-ELM based RFID positioning framework, the MOs are upgraded to smart manufacturing objects (SMOs), and the processes are enhanced with real-time signal processing and intelligent tracking capabilities. The experimental results verify that the proposed positioning method is superior to other state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of accuracy, efficiency, and robustness.

Towards a Better Understanding of Organizational Adoption and Diffusion of RFID Technology

This paper aims to acquire underlying knowledge about the dynamics of RFID adoption and diffusion and explore the drivers that shape the RFID diffusion pathway. The paper uses a case study methodology to conduct and present the research and its findings. The paper presents an RFID adoption/diffusion model that can guide enterprises to transition from standalone RFID deployments towards new RFID systems that are deeply integrated with business processes. The diffusion process follows a three-stage model with isomorphic feedback mechanisms. The first stage is an isolated/sensing phase, the second stage is an absorptive phase, while the last stage is an integrative phase. The proposed model suggests that a combination of endogenous and exogenous factors constitute the driving forces behind each phase of the diffusion pathway. Our research reveals that some congruence between organizational and individual aims is plausible during the adoption phase and that RFID adoption can be initiated through organizational free-will as opposed to coercive pressures from influencing organizations.

Lee Manufacturing Control, Asset Tracking, and Asset Maintenance: Assessing the Impact of RFID Technology Adoption

Lee Manufacturing Control, Asset Tracking, and Asset Maintenance: Assessing the Impact of RFID Technology Adoption

The 2Bin system for controlling medical supplies at point-of-use

Abstract The increase in cost of supplies and services is outpacing the increase in revenues at many hospitals. To address this cost increase hospitals are seeking more efficient ways to store and manage vast inventories of medical supplies. A parsimonious and efficient inventory system which we call 2Bin is becoming increasingly popular in North American hospitals. Under the 2Bin system inventory is stored in two equal-sized bins. 2Bin systems are reviewed periodically and empty bins are replenished. In recent years the adoption of RFID technology for 2Bin systems is allowing continuous-time tracking of empty bins, increasing inventory visibility. In this paper we model the 2Bin inventory system under periodic and continuous review. For periodic review we show that the long-run average cost per unit time is quasi-convex, enabling a simple search for the optimal review cycle. For continuous review, we present a semi-Markov decision model, characterize the optimal replenishment policy, and provide a solution approach to obtain the long-run average cost per unit time. Using data obtained from hospitals currently using RFID-enabled 2Bin systems, we estimate the economic benefits of using the best periodic review length (i.e., parameter optimization), and of using a continuous review inventory policy (i.e., policy improvement). We characterize system conditions such as the number of medical supplies used, replenishment costs, stock-out costs, etc. that favor each option, and provide insights to hospital management on system design considerations that favor the use of periodic or continuous review.

Impact of RFID technology on supply chain decisions with inventory inaccuracies

Inventory inaccuracies are costly and prevalent in many industries. This paper focuses on the impact of RFID technology adoption on supply chain decisions with shrinkage and misplacement problems in the Internet of Thing (IoT). We assume that the supply chain consists of one supplier and one retailer that sell a single product to the customer. By assuming that demand is uniformly distributed, and considering the factors of the fixed investment cost, tag price and shrinkage recovery rate, both RFID and non-RFID cases are analyzed under two scenarios: (1) in the centralized supply chain, the Newsvendor model is applied to investigate the impact of applying RFID technology on inventory control policy and supply chain profit; (2) in the decentralized supply chain, the wholesale price contract is formulated to characterize the supply chain partners’ decisions on ordering quantity, wholesale price and profits. We find that when the fixed cost and variable tag cost of RFID technology are shared between the retailer and the manufacturer, the retailer is much more sensitive than the supplier to the sharing proportion of RFID fixed investment cost as well as the tag price.

Effects Of RFID Technology On Efficiency And Profitability In Retail Supply Chains

Ten years have passed since Wal-Marts public announcement about its RFID technology adoption plan in 2003. Some large competitors of Wal-Mart in the U.S. retail industry jumped on the trend of RFID technology adoption. However, there has been a slowdown of RFID technology adoption since 2008. Many U.S. retailers do not consider adopting RFID technology because of the uncertainty of return on investment and the lack of business cases demonstrating its profitability or efficiency. This study investigates whether RFID companies have better financial performance ratios in the U.S. retail supply chains. RFID retailers have significantly lower days-in-inventory and lower per-employee costs. Compared with pre-RFID, the RFID retailers do not improve profit ratios after they adopted it, but their days-in-inventory ratio and sales efficiency improve significantly. Panel data regression analyses show that inventory management efficiency does impact gross margins, but the impact of cost efficiency is negligible. RFID retailers have a positive relationship with gross margin increases. In summary, it could be stated that introducing RFID improves inventory management efficiency but we do not know yet if RFID technology adoption also contributes to profitability in U.S. retail industry.

An Item-Level Access Control Framework for Inter-System Security in the Internet of Things

The IOT(Internet of Things) is thriving to connect everything on our planet. With the maturity of Radio Frequency Identification technology, companies are adopting RFID technology into their legacy systems. However, systems of different companies are facing obstacles in establishing mutual trust to be partners of the IOT. This paper proposes an item-level access control framework for inter-system security in the IOT, promising to help solve the issue and drive the development of the IOT a step forward.

철도차량 스마트 운영관리를 위한 RFID 기술현황 및 개발 필요성

철도차량에 RFID 시스템을 도입함으로써 철도 부품관리 등을 포함한 철도차량의 스마트한 운영관리가 가능하도록 하는 것은 경제적, 산업적 뿐 아니라 사회적으로도 많은 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 해외의 RFID 연구 및 개발 활용사례를 조사 분석하였다. 철도 뿐 아니라 다양한 산업분야에 RFID 기술이 적용된 사례에 관해서도 조사하였다. 철도분야에서는 주로 차량위치 검지, 차량인식 등에 RFID 시스템이 사용된 경우가 거의 대부분이었고 부품의 단순이력 관리 등에 응용한 사례도 있었다. 본 연구를 통해, 세계적으로 이미 여러 산업분야에서 RFID 기술이 활용되고 있고 철도분야에서도 여러 국가에서 RFID 기술을 활용한 운영이 활성화되어 있으나 이러한 기술 활용은 주로 차량운행과 관련된 분야에 국한되어 있고 철도부품의 유지보수 등의 분야에서는 RFID 기술개발 및 활용이 미흡하다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 국내의 철도차량의 스마트한 운영관리를 위해서는 RFID 기술을 철도부품의 유지보수 및 이력관리에 적용할 수 있는 시스템이 반드시 필요하다. There are many economical and industrial as well as social demands enabling smart management of railway vehicle including parts management by introducing RFID system in railway vehicle. In this paper, overseas researches and developments which use cases of RFID were investigated and analyzed. In this process, cases of various industries adopting RFID technology as well as cases of railway part were investigated. RFID system is used mainly for railway vehicle position detection and identification of vehicles in the field of railway. Also there are cases of application on traceability management of railway vehicle parts. The system in which RFID technology can be applied to railway parts management and traceability management is necessary for smart management of domestic railway vehicle.

Actor-Network Theory (ANT) Based Visualisation of Socio-Technical Facets of RFID Technology Translation

In the early 2000s, Information Systems researchers in Australia had begun to emphasise socio-technical approaches in innovation adoption of technologies. The ‘essentialist' approaches to adoption (for example, Innovation Diffusion or TAM), suggest an essence is largely responsible for rate of adoption (Tatnall, 2011) or a new technology introduced may spark innovation. The socio-technical factors in implementing an innovation are largely flouted by researchers and hospitals. Innovation Translation is an approach that purports that any innovation needs to be customised and translated in to context before it can be adopted. Equally, Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is an approach that embraces the differences in technical and human factors and socio-professional aspects in a non-deterministic manner. The research reported in this paper is an attempt to combined the two approaches in an effective manner, to visualise the socio-technical factors in RFID technology adoption in an Australian hospital. This research investigation demonstrates RFID technology translation in an Australian hospital using a case approach (Yin, 2009). Data was collected using a process of focus groups and interviews, analysed with document analysis and concept mapping techniques. The data was then reconstructed in a ‘movie script' format, with Acts and Scenes funnelled to ANT informed abstraction at the end of each Act. The information visualisation at the end of each Act using ANT informed Lens reveal the re-negotiation and improvement of network relationships between the people (factors) involved including nurses, patient care orderlies, management staff and non-human participants such as equipment and technology. The paper augments the current gaps in literature regarding socio-technical approaches in technology adoption within Australian healthcare context, which is transitioning from non-integrated nearly technophobic hospitals in the last decade to a tech-savvy integrated era. More importantly, the ANT visualisation addresses one of the criticisms of ANT i.e. its insufficiency to explain relationship formations between participants and over changes of events in relationship networks (Greenhalgh & Stones, 2010).