Response from: Ashwin

Indeed its boom time for AIDC technology rather than just RFID. The small & Medium Enterprises are just waking up to the advantages of Barcoding so RFID still has to cover some distance, However its true that the large corporates are rapidly adapting to RFID. A less advocated field in RFID and Barcoding is the Software solutions that are an integral part. We at Siparium are the pioneers in developing Solutions for the AIDC sector (both Brcoding & RFID). Lets just hope that RFID creates such hype that Small & Medium Enterprises should directly go for RFID solutions rather than adapting Barcoding solutions and migrating to RFID in future.

Response from: Chris Kapsambelis

The time for the 5 cent tag has come and gone. The 5 cent tag is based on the assumption that the UHF passive tag will find universal application. This is necessary to support very high production levels without which the 5 cent tag is not possible. Recent developments have shown that there is no universal tag, and different RFID sectors will need tags with differing characteristics, none of which is of sufficient volume to support the 5 cent tag.

Response from: Ronan Clinton

The total confusion about 5 cent tags continues... Have a look at what you actually get for 5 cent -(assuming we are talking about the UHF Gen 2 tags) is an inlay based on a quantity of 100 million (as far as my research goes anyway). These inlays then need to be manufactured into a label or something that can be applied in a manufacturing process. So, from start to finish, the 5 cent RFID component is only one step of the process. By the time a tag is integrated into a useable media, programmed, system integrated and applied the cost is many times more - assuming you need 100 million of them..... I compare the RFID to the .com industry in the late 1990's. It will survive as an extremely effective and useable technology, but a serious correction of the hype and understanding needs to happen. As soon as people grasped that the .com industry was overvalued and mis-understood, it bombed. The same will happen with RFID, although it will survive. I have attended seminar after seminar on RFID and I have heard nothing new in the last 7 years, except the same mis-information being spread in a different way. The real world will prevail.... (I should point out that I actually love RFID as a technology and my company provides it to customers, but only when applicable..)

Response from: oyun

The time for the 5 cent tag has come and gone. The 5 cent tag is based on the assumption that the UHF passive tag will find universal application. This is necessary to support very high production levels without which the 5 cent tag is not possible. Recent developments have shown that there is no universal tag, and different RFID sectors will need tags with differing characteristics, none of which is of sufficient volume to support the 5 cent tag.

Response from: oyun

The time for the 5 cent tag has come and gone.