Tags
Since 1966, products in the supply chain are tagged with barcodes from the point of production which are left on until selling. These are correspondingly read and recorded by scanners for the respective product identity number and price. The system largely increased Company productivity and mechanized product management. But, barcodes which are simply printed over pieces of paper can be easily scraped, scratch, water damage, if not creased making it unavailable for scanning.
Radio identification tags are more compensating over the usual barcodes. The tags attached on goods can be read and identified while in transit, which means the merchandize does not have to be on static position to figure out its data. For example in shipping containers or in trucking, the merchandize does not have to be unloaded for inventory. As well, monitoring starts from the production site to the vendors selling areas, or until after the radio frequency identification is turned off by the vendor which is an indication of sale.
Radio identification tags are more compensating over the usual barcodes. The tags attached on goods can be read and identified while in transit, which means the merchandize does not have to be on static position to figure out its data. For example in shipping containers or in trucking, the merchandize does not have to be unloaded for inventory. As well, monitoring starts from the production site to the vendors selling areas, or until after the radio frequency identification is turned off by the vendor which is an indication of sale.
According to the author,” Each RFID system has different components and customizations so that it can support a particular business process for an organization; as a result, the security risk for RFID systems and the controls available to address them are highly varied. The enterprise and inter-enterprise subsystems involve common IT components such as servers, databases, and networks and therefore can benefit from typical IT security controls for those components” (Karygianis, Tom et al., 2007).
Common devices that employ RFID
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