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Wireless World: A breakout year for tags

A story about RFID achieving mass-market success.
CHICAGO, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- This could be the year Radio Frequency Identification technology achieves its long-expected mass-market success -- with the wireless tags being used everywhere from schoolyards to convenience stores, experts told UPI's Wireless World. A report by the consulting firm Deloitte & Touche LLP predicted that by the end of 2005, "billions" of RFID devices will be commissioned, tagging people, products and even parts. The data generated by the tags will change the face of e-commerce, experts said, and require databases that can hold terabytes, or trillions of bits, of information, spurring another massive growth in computer sales, perhaps rivaling the height of the Internet boom of the 1990s."Traditional technology architectures are not prepared to handle this volume," said a spokesman for ObjectStore, a subsidiary of Progress Software Corp. in Bedford, Mass., and a developer of technology that collects, correlates and propagates data from RFID tags. "If you committed every piece of RFID-related data as it comes off a reader, you would be backed up in about two seconds." By Gene Koprowski
 
 

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