Etcom's Business Strategy
RFID is a well known technology
for many years mainly for: Electronic Toll Collection (ETC)
applications for toll roads, animal and livestock management, Access
Control, shipping containers, cargo trains management (inter-modal),
transportation services mainly for Commercial Vehicle Operations and
other automatic control applications.
Most of these applications control
high value items, manage electronic payments and reduce waiting
inline times. Most existing implementations are specially
tailored for very specific customers or applications and involved a
significant amount of NRE.
During recent years the basic
technologies have developed dramatically as more and more companies
offer a large variety of RFID components
at affordable prices for comprehensive implementations such as
retail, supply chain, production lines, assembly lines, inventory
management and many more.
The time has matured for
implementing both automatic
Total Asset Visibility and
automatic
Total Accountability, as
the basic components are available at a reasonable cost. RFID is the
opportunity that “assets” were waiting for, to enable them to
automatically “talk” and provide useful information and updated
status to the computerized management databases and tools.
Nevertheless,
contrary to the large variety of available off the shelf components,
the actual number of implementations is still too low especially for
medium and small size potential end-users, which are the majority
of the market. The main reason for that are the majority of
traditional integrators that are reluctant to invest the required
resources for developing viable and justified RFID applications.
Etcom
RFID has identified, defined and developed for those integrators a
line of Application Products.
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