RFID applications in professional services

Most RFID applications focuses on the production and supply chain. But past experiences, coupled with some announcements of contract in a timely manner, I became aware of the scope of RFID applications in professional services.

Areas such as the right to information security, medical, insurance and procurement, are in principle, therefore, the physical security of paper files. Lost or misplaced can cause serious financial or legal sanctions. For this reason, I'm using months, can control how RFID tags to reduce the work and improve the accuracy of the follow-up to the records and other important documents.

File card-the stubborn resistance of the information revolution

Those of us who remember the computer industry in the 1980s, will no doubt be heard many promises, which solve the administrative burden for professional services at the "paperless office". The revolution of information technology-led flatbed scanner, database program, PC and graphical display-should enter the CAB file pool Office and secretarial. Fortunes were made and lost, this idea of hunting (think once Wang industries, for example). Although Microsoft Word became obsolete typing pool can Office file cabinet continues to grow and many of these were simply Secretaries from data file directory, enter the worksheet to the chase again.

The reasons for the importance of continuous paper files are human factors considerations and laws of conservation of the data. Many providers of services in an environment where laptops are impractical or awkward work from the point of view of human factors. A doctor or a nurse, for example, much prefer a notation, which draws for a show in bed, as the Tablet PC login more complex.

Where electronic records are useful, such as accounting or insurance records require retention laws safeguarding and monitoring tests as entries, photos or reports of damage of the campaign to support. I worked for an insurance application intelligent Web Imaging for customers had their work routine, but necessary to ensure that all important documents in a physical store. They called their packages of documents "Gold." If pursued them with the claim and not the counsel for the plaintiff sought were identified, they could be held responsible for millions of dollars damage-where the need for the treatment of any claims (and follow) file, as if it was made in gold.

Operation requirements in law, medicine, accounting and Government, to ensure the importance of preservation of the document continues and follow-up. The usual way to keep track of file entries that you type in a database program. But today the latest RFID technology has tried to make this task more efficient and more accurate, the risk of errors in the acquisition and enter the method of locating the file.

UHF Gen2 tags we use in General, a rough estimate of $ 0.75 per day accounts for fully loaded cost of tags and within the supply chain support systems. With regard to the use of RFID technology in the industry is therefore useful to think of it spend "documents are" equal to about a dollar to follow? As the Covenant (which keeps the document creation and hoarding as a core competency) and answered this question already.

Program management services to Government

A current press release of 3 m Systems announced that they have a contract for five years the Government Services Administration (GSA had won) to offer, that the document of RFID technology. GSA conducts all purchases by the Government of the United States use common elements such as building maintenance supplies and office supplies. 3 M will be Systems to track orders and government documents. The systems are portable scanner, labels, fixed point and reader software. With this order, the GSA is the highest profile of RFID m 3.

3 a few other companies (e.g. Dynasis and Magellan) were at the forefront in this area of RFID technology. RFID technology challenges are very different in an Office environment that in a traditional supply chain. For example, can be an RFID tracking system, the number of RFID tags, which in general applications chain can take over the other in a file, stacked, while providing that good physical separation must read RFID tags. The 3 m system relies on proprietary tags and portable scanner ensure that the label good law.

DynaSis addresses the issue through the integration of different readers with a specialized company. Manufacturer of Magellan advertises that the benefits of radio frequency tags with their technology (PJM) jitter modulation stage for reading data from stacked labels. All these techniques of RFID-based on the same desktop as our target-RFID technology into familiar automatic detection and tracking supply chain data without the need for human intervention and subsequent opportunities for human error.

Health services

In the same week, 3 m announced their GSA contract price, Intermec has announced the results of their work that a monitoring solution documents provide capital health systems in Trenton, NJ for medical records. Intermec adapted their traditional products of EPC Gen2 UHF (labels, laptops with embedded RFID readers and fixed-point reader) in a hospital environment, with the help of healthcare solutions systems Infolinx the software company. Capital health systems uses the Intermec system to track the movements of approximately 5,000 medical records in its structures of 589-bed hospital. Their CEO explains that incidents of files moved "in the face of diminished markedly," since they started with Intermec.

Intermec system is an application of RFID supply chain system of 3 m tag stacked technically similar, because it applied a tag in a trace file scanner stationary (for resellers on portals of RFID technology trade from a floor space of trace output). Intermec Handheld Computer use scanner quickly find offices and work spaces for missing files. The life cycle of a medical record that is longer than the typical navigation package is retail, Intermec may a good case to create the return on investment for this unique record management application.