Waiting game: WHAT IS HOLDING UP GREATER ACCEPTANCE OF RFID IN THE WORLD'S AIRPORTS? IS EVERYONE SIMPLY WAITING FOR EVERYONE ELSE TO MAKE THE FIRST MOVE?

摘要

RFID as a technology is familiar to many people in the airport industry, having been available for use in baggage handling for at least five years, although actual applications are not all that common. There are several reasons for this slow uptake, with one of the first hurdles that had to be overcome being the actual radio frequency used. There was no real standard until Las Vegas McCarran and Hong Kong airports decided to go ahead with 900MHz for their baggage systems and Wal-Mart also chose the same frequency for its product tracking system.