The Gillette Co. (Boston) is beginning large-scale testing of breakthrough RFID tag technology developed by researchers at the Auto-ID Center, headquartered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Cambridge, MA).
Starting this year in partnership with selected retail customers, Gillette will begin testing through its supply chain by placing tiny RFID tags in selected products for the U.S. market. If successful, up to half a billion tags could be placed in Gillette products over the next few years.