We’re all tagged!
This was the opening joke of the seminar devoted to RFID technology held on Tuesday inside the exposition Trackability in fieramilanocity.
Paolo Conti, always brilliant as moderator, asked the attendees to search for some kind of tags inside their own pockets. Someone had it inside the car keys (Vespa in my case) for the immobilizer function, someone inside his access badge and someone in his car for the telepass.
Without even knowing it RFID is a technology we’re already using since a long time. There’s a lot of talking about it lately because of its advantages in various fields, but the real problem for its large scale deployment, as has been discussed during the seminar, is its integration with the information system in order to exploit its full potential.
All the presentations were at very high level and the final roundtable sported the participation for the first time of the representatives of the italian RFID university labs, from the recently born RFID Solution Center of the Politecnico di Milano, to the one of La Sapienza in Roma and the universities in Messina, Parma, the Liuc in Castellanza and the Supsi in Lugano.
For i-muse™ RFID is very important. It’s a kind of implementation in a field much less complex compared to logistics or product trackability, but the benefits are relevant and most of all, for the sake of usability, it will be totally invisible to the user.