At SkyeTek, we divide the embedded reader market into two primary segments: dedicated and enabled.

Dedicated readers look and smell like RFID readers - things like dock-door readers, handheld scanners, label printers, etc.

Enabled readers are far more interesting, because most of the time you wouldn’t know or expect RFID to be in there - things like medical devices, exercise equipment, and consumer electronics to name just a few of the places we have embedded enabled readers.

Though it gets somewhat scant industry attention, I expect the mega opportunity in RFID will have almost nothing to do with SCM. While analysts have not covered embedded RFID readers (especially the enabled portion) and thus there ar ...

Now there’s a bad idea. When I first heard about the Baja Beach Club application I loved it, but I thought “Oh boy, this is going to freak out lots of people”. Then the Mexican judges started chipping themselves, then came the FDA approval for VeriChip, and recently the chipping of some US officials. I say go ahead and chip yourself if you want - but don’t even think about mandating implants on me, because I promise to take up arms against that kind of nonsense. In my opinion the worst thing about implanting humans with RFID is how it gives fearful people something more to worry about. Indeed, using RFID to track humans really touches a nerve, doesn’t it? For example I recently heard that RFID helped prevent an infant from being abducted from ...