Framework for the Classification of RFID Applications and Stakeholders

Abstract

As discussed in the previous chapter, technology growth can be influenced by many different factors which have a lot of interdependencies. Besides the main topics that will be analysed in this book, there are two more themes which influence the diffusion of the technology and which will be discussed throughout the whole book. The first theme is the technology itself. A vast variety of RFID applications exist, which makes it difficult to predict the development of RFID Technology in general. The second theme presents a societal point of view; different people who interact with the technology will have an influence on its overall success. These people are named as stakeholders throughout this book. In order to incorporate these two topics, two models were created. One aims at structuring RFID applications (the RFID Reference Model), and the second aims at structuring stakeholders (the RFID Stakeholder Model).