RFID Technology for Agri-Food Tracability Management

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Author(s): Filippo Gandino (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Erwing Ricardo Sanchez (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Bartolomeo Montrucchio (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)and Maurizio Rebaudengo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 19
Source title: Auto-Identification and Ubiquitous Computing Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Judith Symonds (AUT University, New Zealand), John Ayoade (American University of Nigeria, Nigeria)and David Parry (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-298-5.ch004

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference / Mobile and Wireless Computing / Ubiquitous & Pervasive Computing

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This chapter deals with the use of RFID technology for improving management and security of agri-food products. In order to protect health and to make transparent the production flow of alimentary commodities, traceability is becoming mandatory for food products in an increasing number of countries. Everywhere, innovative solutions are investigated by agri-food companies in order to improve their traceability management systems. The RFID technology seems to be able to solve in a very efficient way the requirements for traceability systems, however some technological problems, such as the lack of consolidated systems, and the costs are the main obstacles to the wide adoption of RFID-based traceability systems. In this chapter the peculiarities of agri-food traceability and the most relevant results reached by the state-of-the-art research studies are detailed.

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