1. Gartner classifies RFID as “Transformational” meaning it will have a major impact on the way companies do business
2. RFID is emerging out of the trough of disillusionment and Gartner predicts mainstream adoption

As many of you who follow my blog now know more than 60% of the top medical device manufacturers have adopted RFID with a return on investment (ROI) of less than 12 moths thanks to RFID. The healthcare industry has identified several ‘killer apps” that only RFID can execute. This includes everything from real time location systems (RTLS) which find critical assets through out a hospital, to RFID enabled cabinets using ISO-18000-6 UHF which monitor vendor managed inventory (VMI) for everything from heart catheters to sutures.

Aerospace, Governments, heavy manufacturing, postal systems, and IT Asset management systems are all evidence of areas where RFID is leading a transformational change in the way participants conduct business. As with all technologies RFID is only transformation if it changes business processes.

What we have today is large and growing market that is gaining value from RFID. Gartner has traditionally been very bearish on RFID, so this latest report that RFID is on its way up the slope of enlightenment to driving real productivity is great news. All of us who have been working hard to build winning projects for the past decade should be excited the pay-off is just around the corner!