This is not to say we should not take seriously the opportunity presented by RFID, the retail industry has successfully implemented RFID technology for many years and where would marathon runners be without there RFID chips do measure performance.

What has to happen is the Industry transport Association should develop a standard (which has just been published). These need to be widely accepted by the Departure control systems, where bags can be tagged and measured from source. This can only be achieve by a leap of faith where airports make the decision to tag all bags and BRS solutions are brought into line. When deciding on a RFID solution we should consider the investment, the evolving tagging technology and the fact the readers are still being developed as global scanning standards are yet to be agreed.

Zafire have invested in RFID knowledge and our team is ready to accept the challenges ahead we are fully SYMBOL authorized installers and are following the IATA Gen2 standard.