Evaluation
RFID - Socio-Economic Factors
By Harish Keshwani at 28 October, 2004, 8:14 pm
Firstly, I would like to acknowledge receipt of ideas from two of my readers. Coincidently both ideas deal with RFID based solutions. I will briefly outline the ideas here and then discuss Socio-economic factors with those ideas in perspective:
Idea 1: This one is to convince state governments to embed RFID Tags in License Plates, given [...]
RFID - Return vs Effort
By Harish Keshwani at 27 October, 2004, 9:42 pm
For a Customer, who is RFID hardware and software consumer, bulk of the return will come from intelligent use of the RFID-generated data and that will happen with the use of middleware. This will equate to excellent return for middleware solution provider company.
Next, let us consider areas where middleware will be essential. This will help [...]
RFID - Federal Regulations
By Harish Keshwani at 26 October, 2004, 10:01 pm
RFID, besides being a very exciting technology, unfortunately can also be a very privacy invading technology. Every time a company decides to start-up a RFID based company, privacy concerns are raised.
However good news is around the corner, Federal Trade Commission has laid out the blueprints of agency’s dominion over RFID and will soon establish guidelines [...]
RFID - Funding Opportunities
By Harish Keshwani at 25 October, 2004, 10:19 pm
In spite of privacy concerns, RFID technology is darling of Venture capitalists. In recent months, US experienced growth in quarterly capital funding over previous quarters, for the first time in three years.
Combined with short project times, ready availability of technology, rising interest and demand from retail and other industries, has made RFID based startups very [...]
RFID - Talent Availability
By Harish Keshwani at 24 October, 2004, 3:40 pm
As discussed in my earlier posts, if we decide for RFID, we will not manufacture RFID chips butinstead, we will develop solutions around RFID chips, using “middleware” software. Big names like IBM, Microsoft, Sun, SAS, SAP are either in process of providing development environment or out-of-the-box solutions for RFID. I want to concentrate on the [...]
