Dayton RFID Convergence Center

Real-time technology expanding the limits of RFID capabilities.

Automatic Identification or Auto-ID refers broadly to technologies that can help computers identify everyday objects. Enabling computers to automatically recognize and identify everyday objects will in turn enable those computers to track and trace the objects, trigger events, and even perform actions on the objects themselves.

The application of Auto-ID technology will provide enterprises with an unprecedented real-time view of their assets and inventories throughout the supply chain, thereby enabling significant gains in their operational efficiencies. Although ideally suited for supply chain management-type applications, Auto-ID technology has applications in any industry that can benefit from better asset tracking, tracing, and management.

While the DRCC specializes in RFID, we have developed relationships with other technologies involved in Auto-ID. Global sourcing is a term used to describe practice of sourcing from the global market for goods and services across geopolitical boundaries. Global sourcing often aims to exploit global efficiencies in the delivery of a product or service. These efficiencies include low cost skilled labor, low cost raw material and other economic factors like tax breaks and low trade tariffs.