Auto-ID Center pioneers RFID use

摘要

Achance encounter four years ago between two professors and an industry executive in Cambridge, Mass. may one day have a substantial impact on supply chain efficiencies. That day, Sanjay Sarma and David L. Brock, professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Kevin Ashton of Procter & Gamble met. at an MIT conference. The two professors described their research into low-cost radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. Ashton noted industry's interest in using such tags in the supply chain. "It was a meeting of the minds," recalls Sarma.