RFID software market to boom

Software for processing all the data produced by RFID (radio frequency identification) chips will boom from $36 million this year to $192 million in 2010, according to a study by Venture Development. RFID chips can give a digital identity to everything from passports and groceries to train boxcars and soccer balls, but software is needed to process and store the data.

Companies that sell the software include specialists such as FR Code, GlobeRanger, OATSystems and Vizional and adapted versions of general-purpose software from companies including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM and Sun Microsystems. NCR and BEA Systems have already acquired smaller RFID software companies, and more acquisitions are likely, the report said.

[adlyb1]

Bah!

How can you sell software if the hardware doesn't work, except in very controlled environments? <br /><br />The promise of this tech is so strong that nobody wants to give up on it, but I have yet to see a solution that can provide reliable results across a huge variety of products and environments.

[mstrhypno]

Bah, Blah, bah!

So it's a non-solution for a number of problems and a solution <br />for some non-problems?<br /><br />It doesn't work in all environments and for all products and, in <br />many instances, is easily hackable, easily trakable by Bad Guys <br />and that makes the carrier easily smackable?<br /><br />I can see it now "The new U.S. Passport, don't leave home <br />without it!" and a video of a guy leaving a foreign airport as <br />viewed through a sniper scope.<br /><br />And at the bottom of the screen, the legend "We've got our eyes <br />on you!"<br /><br />LOL!

[jones_8099]

Everyone complains?

If RFID is so bad then explain why the military uses it and hasn't <br />had any real problems with it? I have been carrying a RFID enabled <br />U.S. Military ID for years and so has the rest of our armed services, <br />if its such a security threat and can identify us so easily then why <br />haven't we had any issues with them? I carry my military ID with me <br />everywhere and travel all over the world (in a civilian status not <br />only military status) So I ask again why hasn't the military had any <br />real issues with RFID if it is such a bad technology?

[sonofbc]

Re: Everyone complains...

I am sure the military is not having a problem with it. The one who should be concerned is you. <br />As an example, if you decide to join a political party the military does not 'support' you could then find your life very miserable. They may be tracking your every move. But as long as you 'toe' the party line then everything will seem just rosy to you.