http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17700027
While the implications and revelations involving Radio Frequency ID chips have been touched upon in other entries in this blog, this thorough article (which also has sidebar links to a number of interesting related stories) clarifies the magnitude of what we are facing. We are going to create billions of remote sensors within a decade, producing a cascading torrent of data which brings to mind the grain silo scene in Witness.
How we handle this data, and what we do with it are questions addressed by this article. One of the problems is the tendency of data to exponentiate -- as RFID chips become more sophisticated they can report on more items of interest -- and each additional data item can imply billions of additional records. Policy management is as important here as any technical element.
Wal-Mart has been an early adaptor of this technology -- if every item it merchandises has a RFID chip, and all of the data they send are collected, we are talking about nearly 8 additional TB/day. This represents data collection which warms the hearts of storage manufacturers. The big mistake is to look at only the present of RFID -- those who consider its future can position themselves for a massive competitive advantage.
Another measured overview of the promises and perils of RFID can be found here:
http://www.discover.com/issues/mar-04/departments/emerging-technology/
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