| | December 20174CIOReviewOffice Editorial queries editor@cioreviewindia.comAdvertising queriessales@cioreviewindia.comBangaloreTel 080 46441103NoidaTel 120 4639300 To subscribeVisit www.cioreviewindia.com/magazine-in or send email to: subscription@cioreviewindia.comCover price is Rs 150 per issueAshok KumarVirupakshi PattarSales & MarketingAmrit SinghRohit RaghubanshiRavi KalgiSambit SatpathyCIOReviewGroup Art DirectorVP - Sales & MarketingMagendran PerumalCirculation ManagerEditorial TeamChitra MishraArchee RoySuchita Gonsalves Vinisha PaivaAnitha TLakshmi GCIOReview No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugheshpalya, Bangalore-560017MaitreyeeCIOReviewVOL 5 · ISSUE 12-6 · DECEMBER 13, 2017Manjunath R Mohana KrishnanSr. VisualizerVisualizersPrinted and published by Alok Chaturvedi on Behalf of Bizprint Media Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published at No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017.Copyright © 2017 Bizprint Media Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Re-production in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.EditorialEditorialIn World War II, The Germans, Japanese, Americans, and British were all using radar to warn approaching planes from miles away. The British put transmitters on planes, which received signals from radar stations on the ground and broadcasted a signal back to identify the aircraft, thus, creating the first RFID system. Pretty morbid circumstances for the introduction of a technology so dense. Nevertheless, from Aerospace to logistics to football, RFID tracking systems have climbed a very strong and complex level, leaving users with incredible advantages. Improved data accuracy, faster data collection, improved inventory/asset tracking, and reduced labor costs are just a few of the many improvements that RFID generates. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited leveraged IBM's technology expertise to deploy an end-to-end tracking solution based on RFID technology at HPCL's Nashik plant. The USD 2.2million deal was one of the single largest implementations in India for RFID-based tracking solutions and involved infrastructure services, business consulting services and middleware solutions from IBM. This was in 2010. 5 years later on 1st July, 2016, Jawaharlal Nehru Port becomes the first port in the country to implement logistics data tagging of containers. The port implemented the logistics data bank tagging of containers, first of its kind facility, intended to help importers/exporters track their goods in transit through logistics data bank service. For the last couple of years, the Indian technology industry has been touting the next year as `The Year of RFID'. However, this `next' year gets postponed to the next year. The industry as a whole needs to discuss and elaborate on reasons why RFID has yet to meet the unrealistic `hockey stick' predictions included in investor pitches and footer-notes to quarterly market updates. The reality is that there never has been ­ and never will be ­ a hockey stick-like uptick in this industry. The RFID community is incredibly creative, ambitious and insanely entrepreneurial. In this edition of CIOReview India, we focus on the Indian segment of the RFID technology vendors who show tremendous potential. Our cover feature ATID Systems has been a premier manufacturer of RFID Handheld Readers to the Indian market for quite some time now. The rest of the top 20 most promising RFID technology solution providers are doing their bit, serving every vertical. Let's see if the next year is `the' year indeed.Do let us know what you think.Emmanuel Christi DasAsst. Managing Editoremmanuel@cioreviewindia.comRFID- Why is it Still an Alien Technology? PublisherEditorAsst. Managing EditorAlok ChaturvediSudhakar SinghEmmanuel Christi Das
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