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Challenges and OpportunitiesLooking forward to 2012

Mick FortuneLibrary RFID Ltd.

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Today’s Topics

• Major events of 2011• What’s “trending”?• Today’s conference in context• What lies ahead?

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• Standards – major developments

• Suppliers– consolidation and change

• New RFID products and services– moving on from circulation

• Publication of procurement guidelines• Formation of IFLA SIG on RFID

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Standards

• ISO 28560* published– UK, Australia and US(partly?) to use part 2– Scandinavian and Switzerland to use part 3– Bibliotheca (US) to use both?

• UK data model published• BLCF published (UK)• SIP 3.0 due out end 2011*International data standard for library RFID

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Suppliers - consolidation and change

• Bibliotheca merged with ITG (USA) and Intellident (UK)

• New self-service suppliers began entering the UK market (from Italy, USA and now… Turkey?)

• New suppliers using RFID/NFC beginning to appear (smartphones/smartcards)

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New RFID products and services

• Moving on from (self-service) circulation– Smartphones can read RFID tags– Smartphones/smartcards are being used to

replace membership cards – Social networking is being linked to stock via

tags– Stock can now interact directly with other

RFID devices for resource discovery/exploration

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Trends? (1)• RFID Solutions– Still link to LMS, but changing...?– Death of LMS being predicted by many

commentators• New ideas and library applications

beginning to appear that may - or may not – integrate with existing systems and services

• The librarian’s task is getting harder!

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Trends? (2)

• Frequencies– HF still dominant• Tags increasingly being seen as “system

components” - not just identifiers• New applications being built on this philosophy

(e.g. Massachusetts, South Australia)

– UHF still evolving• Tags still used as identifiers (often using

manufacturer’s ID – not barcode number)• Often stand-alone

(Moves to support ISO 28560 on UHF could change this over time)

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Today’s conference in context

• Key themes– Impact of new standards and protocols on

established/future service provision– To migrate or not to migrate?– Integration• with non-library services• with other library applications• with related technologies (e.g. NFC)• of existing implementations with new solutions

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What lies ahead? (A brief exercise in Fortune telling)

• RFID will continue to transition from dumb label to system component creating more function-rich applications

• Use of standards will become vital to avoid multiple tagging (or re-tagging)

• US market will resume leadership of global library RFID development as standards are adopted

• RFID suppliers may evolve into the new LMS providers

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Takeaways

• Any RFID strategy needs to consider the technology’s impact on other systems/services

• As RFID-based applications become more complex, systems integration will become more critical

• Your chosen supplier may not be an expert on everything. (They may even be relying on you to know some of the answers!)

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Thank You!

…and have a good conference!

Library RFID Ltd.+44 7786 625544(If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this presentation please contact mick@libraryrfid.co.uk. Or read my blog at www.mickfortune.com/Wordpress)