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RFID Essentials Web-based Training

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Learn RFID in Hours, Right from Your PC

Why Attend?

RFID Essentials is an innovative, online learning tool designed to address the needs of end-user companies. You will be prepared to identify the highest potential RFID applications in your enterprise, choose the right RFID architecture for an application, talk knowledgeably with vendors, and plan an effective pilot. Your enterprise can shave months off a pilot or implementation by getting the entire project team up to speed early in the planning phase.

Who Should Take RFID Essentials

Developed in collaboration with three top industry experts, this self-paced, eight-hour resource provides you with the confidence and readiness to advance your organization's RFID initiative.

Course Content

  • Hear about RFID technology including active, passive, RTLS, and middleware.
  • Learn how to share data with trading partners using EPCglobal standards.
  • Understand RFID applications, including 20 actual deployments producing ROI.
  • Find out how to identify the most promising applications in your enterprise.
  • Lean the steps to planning a pilot.
  • Discover how to measure the financial contribution of an RFID application in your enterprise through interactive case studies.
  • Understand how to secure tag-reader communication; and privacy policies and regulations.
  • Take the optional final exam. It tests applied knowledge is offered up to three times, and passing it certifies that you are ready to plan a pilot.
  • Understand how RFID technology works in typical applications like hospital asset tracking (RTLS), supply chain tracking (UHF passive), and ePassports (HF passive) through imaginative animations.
  • Participate in two in-depth case studies involving enterprises’ prospective investment in RFID.
  • Learn how to how to apply key performance indicators (KPI’s) and common financial measurement techniques to assess a project’s potential.

View the course syllabus for details.

Sample RFID Essentials

Individuals may subscribe to RFID Essentials for 60 days.

15 minute lesson
Sample Module 1
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Purchase RFID

Entire bundle:
$595 US (Individual CSCMP member)
$695 US (Individual nonmember)

Individual courses:
Modules 1 and 2
$75 CSCMP member
$100 Nonmember

Modules 3, 4, 5, 8, 9
$125 CSCMP member
$150 Nonmember

Modules 6 and 7
$75 CSCMP member
$100 Nonmember

Companies with ten or more users are eligible for group pricing.

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