International. A recent study published by Primary Research Group of New York looked at how academic, public and specialty bookstores use RFID technology and concluded that more than a quarter of bookstores that use it experienced fewer thefts.
The report details data from nearly 100 bookstores around the world that invested in RFID for doors, sensors and tags and other technologies, equipment and supplies. The report focused on the problems of security and safety, privacy, impact on the group of libraries, productivity, the pattern of theft and other trends that can be analyzed with RFID.
Some of the conclusions were the following: in libraries that already use RFID , 85.27% of physical collections are being monitored by this technology. Bookstores with budgets between $1 million and $5 million spent an average of $96 on readers, conveyor belts, door sensors and other RFID technologies.
Likewise, 26.67% of the establishments in question that use this technology claimed to have decreased their theft rates.
