Is RFID only applicable to the clothing segment?
In the clothing industry, RFID will be a big help in optimizing the rising standards in customer service, especially in regard to product availability. For the consumer, there exist even more important challenges in other industry sectors, which could hardly be solved without the help of RFID technology. For example, some in the medical industry, estimate, that 10% of all medication on the market is counterfeit. Food could also be tracked consistently; thereby ensuring its quality. The exact identification of products will make product-piracy increasingly more difficult. So why focus first on the fashion market? Whereas, the broad use of RFID in the food industry is still in its beginnings, it has already been further developed in the clothing sector. The large variety of products, especially in sizing, causes replenishment efforts to be very complicated and time-consuming. Here RFID offers a significant advantage, as the products can be recorded through automization. Another reason th