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Bluetooth Low Energy Move In on RFID

Author: Jonathan Collins, Principal Analyst, Wireless Healthcare and M2M

Published: 16 Mar 2009

To many, RFID is a term that should be applied narrowly to define a low-cost license plate tag technology for identification and little else. This kind of technology is targeted at high-volume, low-cost tag applications, such as supply chain tagging of retail goods. But clearly, in its broadest terms, RFID really encompasses anything that identifies itself as uniquely using radio frequency communication – including Bluetooth. Will a short range wireless technology that’s to be specified for the first time later this year expand the definition of RFID even further?

The full text of this Insight is available to subscribers of the RFID Research Service and the Wireless Connectivity Research Service and the Wireless Connectivity Research Service.

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