Re: anybody playing with rfid tags

["Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Feb 10, 7:33=EF=BF=BDpm, J. Sloud <jsl...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:55:32 GMT, "Nick Markowitz Jr."
>
> <nick-markow...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >have a different customer looking for a straight anti theft tag or rfid =
he
> >can put under the label on buckets of products he produces so he knows i=
f it
> >goes out a door other than shipping dept. ideas
>
> That sounds like an EAS application, not RFID. =A0EAS systems through
> either Sensormatic or Checkpoint should fit the bill if the goal is to
> stop shoplifting.
>
> The difference is that true RFID would tell you WHICH item walked
> through the door. =A0Eventually, retail will probably use RFID tags
> instead of bar codes down to the indivdual item. =A0Imagine moving a
> pallet of merchandise through the warehouse door and having your
> inventory adjusted instantly. =A0Consumers could move a shopping cart
> full of merchandise through a portal and have the enitre cart rung-up
> instantly. =A0At the same time the merchandise in the cart would be
> removed from the store's inventory system. This would eliminate
> thousands of hours worth of manual inventory and waiting for clerks to
> individually ring-up merchandise at a register.

I'm certainly no technophobe but this seems to lend it self to
something I heard a long time ago.

Computers can handle so much datat that    .......do you realize that
it only takes a few seconds to make more than million mistakes?