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Intermec sponsors RFID university fall tour

October 6, 2003

EVERETT, Wash. -- Intermec Technologies Corp. will sponsor RFID Journal's RFID University Fall Tour to help educate companies that will use RFID (radio frequency identification) for pallet and case-tracking applications.

The RFID University Fall Tour, scheduled for today in San Francisco, Oct. 21 in New York City, Nov. 3 in Atlanta and Nov.17 in Chicago, is a series of intensive, one-day courses designed to give companies the skills needed to evaluate applications and develop a plan for an RFID pilot.

Intermec's Mike Nichols, a senior project consultant with 30 years of radio frequency experience, will present a course entitled, "The Building Blocks of an RFID System," during the tour. The course will include an overview of RFID tags, standards, protocols, RFID reader education, interference issues, tag and reader performance issues and site surveys, according to a news release.

RFID, a complement to current bar code-based data capture systems, allows companies to automatically track inventory throughout an entire supply chain. RFID automatic-data collection does not require line of sight or manual scanning as do most bar code-based systems.

For example, information about RFID-tagged cases on a pallet can be read automatically as the pallet passes through a portal or dock door, rather than requiring the individual cases to be manually scanned.