3 | Measuring RFID’s Role In Improving Sustainability

While the economic impact of RFID deployments has long been studied and the ROI has been widely used as the one and only driver for RFID adoption, in today’s world, companies are becoming more and more sensitive about their role and shifted their focus to the environmental impacts of their actions.

 A joint research program between Michigan State University (MSU)'s Axia Institute and Italy's RFID Lab at the University of Parma has resulted in the development of a tool which measures EROI (Energy Return on Investment) and illustrates the impact that RFID technology can have on environmental sustainability, according to each product, how it is shipped, how quickly it might expire, and its attributes such as size, transit distance and cold chain requirements.

Dr. Antonio Rizzi, professor of logistics and supply chain management in the University of Parma's Engineering department and founder and head of the RFID Lab, will discuss how the tool is being used and where EROI showed the positive environmental compensation of RFID in terms of number of trees saved on the supply chain.

Speaker: Dr. Antonio Rizzi, Full Professor, Industrial Logistics and Supply Chain Management, RFID Lab - Head and Founder, Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma.