One additional question that respondents were also asked to answer in the 2007 study
(not included in the 2004 study)was to indicate the differentRFID applications fromwhich
their organization would benefit. This additional question was included based on our
discussions with WERC personnel, the progression of RFID technology and the feedback
we received when developing our survey. About 17 percent of the respondents indicated
that their organizations would benefit from RFID application which would include
package tracking and inventory management services for customers. This was followed
by asset management applications (15 percent), loss prevention applications (14 percent),
container tracking application and application for security (13 percent each), raw material
tracking (6 percent) and finally component tracking (5 percent of respondents) (Figure 9).
This seems to be consistent with the literature reviewed earlier