Monday, March 14, 2011

Spring Break catch-up Post--Input/Output (RFID)

I think Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) would be a wise technological asset to utilize in various parts of my mobile phone business operations, whether in the manufacturing or retail sector.

RFID chips are small and lightweight, inexpensive, and extremely accurate, therefore it would be viable to stick the chips in packages or different component parts that were stored in the manufacturing plant to track where certain parts were and have an instantly-available, accurate account of the parts in stock (such as LCD screens, cases, batteries, wireless chips, microprocessor, image sensor for the camera, OS, hard drive with software, flash memory, microphone, speaker etc.).

RFID chips could easily track the location of shipments to make sure they're reaching their designated destination on time. You can get a real-time inventory account in retail stores for finished phones packaged and shipped and ready for sale. At any time, you can know where your inventory and device parts are, and you can easily have access to a lot of specific data stored in microchips.

We might want to invest in Active Tags for use in large manufacturing plants and shipping purposes because they have wider operating ranges. We could use the cheaper Passive Tags within stores for inventory purposes (which don't have a battery) and could be located by the small readers installed every couple of feet in the facility so they're never out of range.

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