Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a megatrend in logistics. The tasks to be assumed by RFID systems are partially like those of the barcode: the provision of information about a product, pallet or entire inventories. But RFID’s critical advantage over barcodes is that the information does not have to be read in a cumbersome line-of-sight process. Instead, everything is done with radio waves: It is fast, automatic and contactless. But before this promising technology can experience its final breakthrough, costs will have to be lowered further and global standardization must be introduced.