The RFID Weblog: RFID Will Co-Exist with Barcodes for Many Years

RFID Will Co-Exist with Barcodes for Many Years

Filed in archive Implementation by Anita Campbell on October 26, 2004

Vnunet has an interesting short article where I found the following description about how RFID will be gradually adopted into business.

Quoting Stephen Smith, vice president of the Gartner research firm:

"RFID technology and the business benefits it promises will not arrive with a big bang," said Smith.

"High capital costs, imperfect read rates, unproven systems and uncertainty around standards will all need to be addressed before retailers can adopt and benefit from the technology. This means that, over the next 10 years, retailers will continue to use barcodes and gradually introduce RFID tagging, creating an environment of co-existence."

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Response from: Michael Mealling (10/26/04 11:42am)

I hope no one was really expecting bar codes to completely go away. They're not just going co-exist for many years, they will always co-exist for simple data redundancy reasons.

This is why we designed the EPC Network so that the EPC is represented in a canonical form once it leaves the reader. As far as the rest of the EPC Network is concerned the fact that an EPC was read from a barcode, an RFID chip, or pecked into a keyboard by a chicken not only doesn't matter but is, in fact, completely hidden from the network itself. You can use every feature of the EPC Network and never use one single RFID tag.