Golem reports today that one of the largest German shopping chains Karstadt is going completely to change over to RFID (Radio Frequency Identification, if you never heard of RFID, shame on you! wikipedia article for you) in the not too distant future. Beginning from the 10-th of September 2007, RFIF technology is already used in the Karstadt store in the center of Düsseldorf. The use of radio identification will surely save a lot of money and will be of a great help for shop assistants. Unlike barcodes radio identification does not require intervisibility and works well up to one kilometer distace. This advantage will help shop assistants to find the unsorted cloths, to carry out inventory and much more. The integration of RFID will make possible in the future the development of mobile phone or PDA applications that will serve like a guide in large stores. Besides leading you to the shelves with the cloths you are interested in, it will be possible to find out wether your size is there and if not in which stores of the same chain and in which city nearby you can find it.

September 12th, 2007 at 4:00 am | category: IT-News