Europe’s Best Turn To The Training Camp For RFID Excellence

Published 6th June 2006

First five RFID+ certified students select accelerated learning course to gain headway on their peers...

The first five people in the EU to be RFID+ certified have completed the UK’s first accelerated learning course for radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, run by The Training Camp.

The Training Camp’s RFID+ professional course can be completed in four days and maps to RFID+, the certification developed by industry with the global technology association CompTIA. The inaugural class, which included students from food production and consultancy backgrounds, achieved a pass rate of 100 per cent.

To date, The Training Camp’s RFID+ course has attracted interest from both new and experienced candidates seeking to take advantage of the RFID ‘gold rush’. Qualified RFID specialists can expect to earn at least £55 per hour.

The RFID+ course instructs students in the installation, configuration and maintenance of RFID hardware and software. The course includes topics such as: interrogation zone basics, testing and troubleshooting, standards and regulations, tag knowledge, design selection, site analysis, RF physics, and RFID peripherals. The Training Camp partnered with OTA, who developed the curriculum and provided a specialist instructor for the course.

One of the students, Richard Warner is a freelance IT consultant looking to add another string to his bow. “By passing the RFID+ qualification I can now gain some practical experience, before looking more into developing solutions that interface RFID technology with business infrastructure, as the technology becomes more widespread in the future, “ he commented. “The residential nature of the course helped to forge stronger bonds between the students and instructors.”

“These five IT professionals now have a massive advantage over their professional peers and are about to find themselves in huge demand as the RFID revolution kicks in,” said Robert Chapman, CEO and founder of The Training Camp. “The technology is about to go mainstream, with innovations such as World Cup tickets containing RFID chips hitting the headlines. Those professionals who seize the opportunity to add RFID+ to their CV now, will be riding high as demand for the technology has already started to emerge.”