According to a survey of systems integrators, consultants, value-added resellers and manufacturers who have customers in a broad range of industries including manufacturing, health care, communications, real estate, financial services and government, the number of individuals skilled in radio frequency identification (RFID) is small and could impact successful and continued adoption of the technology.
Released by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), the survey showed that 80 percent of companies participating in the survey said they do not believe there are sufficient numbers of professionals skilled in RFID to hire from today. Two-thirds of organizations (66.7 percent) said training and educating their employees in the technology is one of the biggest challenges they will face to succeed in the RFID market.