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April 4, 2007

5 Success Factors for 2007 for Item-Level RFID Deployment

At RFID World last week, Dr. Bill Colleran, President and CEO of Impinq, discussed “The 5 Success Factors for 2007 Item-Level RFID Deployments”.

1. Standards Compliance – Required for scalability, open-loop, multi-vendor; Gen 2 is the main standard; certifications can be found here
2. Performance – Good read reliability and throughput; tags with the same silicone can have different sensitivities
3. Flexibility – Reduced Deployment Cost with fewer vendors and a common infrastructure
4. Quality/Reliability – On the wafer, chips should be tested, calibrated and stored on the chip, baked at 250 degrees for 3 days, then retested; Impinq provides the wafer map to the customer
5. Delivery – Delivery of chips to customer is not to be taken or granted

I might add to that list Information – the ability to discern long-term trends from the data and affect the strategic business, as well as to take immediate, tactical business actions.

Dr. Colleran talked about the practical problems of “overlap” (multiple readers picking up a tag) and “non response” (no reader picking up a tag). Dr. Colleran also talked about the various antennae designs (banjo, jumping jack and propeller for cases&pallets and satellite, disc and button for items).

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