Essays on Line Of Sight

RFID stands for Radio-frequency identification (“What is RFID?” par. 1). It is a technology that uses electromagnetic fields to identify and track the tags that are attached to the objects. RFID technology can be extremely useful in managing memorabilia inventory at Hard Rock Café. It can allow the café to track their inventory without human intervention that makes it the ideal technology in the environments where reading of barcodes could be difficult. Since the Hard Rock café has the huge amount of memorabilia inventory, they can take assistance from RFID technology that eliminates the need for labor-intensive tag reading ...

Search and Rescue (SAR) is a practice done to salvage people from disasters. This practice is done by professionals who are specialized in particular disasters, for instance, following a hurricane or earthquake. These professionals serve to protect life to the best of their ability in each and every operation they encounter. As such, they need as much information before venturing into a potentially life-threatening disaster area. A mechanism is, therefore, required to provide all the necessary information to the SAR professionals. An excellent solution is this scenario would be an unmanned aerial vehicle that can record and relay real-time ...

How does RFID compare to bar coding?

There are several differences between RFID and bar coding. The first difference is that with RFID is that there is no line of sight required but with bar coding the line of sight is required. The second difference is that the RFID is more expensive to use than the bar coding. The third difference is that the RFID takes two steps to do when the bar coding only uses one step. The fourth difference is with RFID, the item orientation is not important but it is required for the bar coding.

What is the economic payback in years for the possible RFID adoption?

The economic payment in years for the possible ...