OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill.-Companies involved in the radio-frequency identification market largely believe there are not enough available employees skilled in RFID technology, according to a new survey by the Computing Technology Industry Association.
Eighty percent of the companies that participated in the survey said there are currently not sufficient professionals skilled in RFID to hire. Two-thirds of the companies said training and educating their employees is their greatest challenge to succeed in the RFID market.
“We believe the market needs hundreds of systems integration companies with RFID capabilities; and hundreds of thousands of individuals knowledgeable in this technology to meet current and future demand,” said David Sommer, vice president of electronic commerce at CompTIA.
The survey also found RFID adoption has been modest, with only 16 percent of survey respondents indicating they have implemented one or more RFID projects.
