Is RFID better than using bar codes?
RFID is not necessarily “better” than barcodes. The two are separate technologies with various uses that occasionally overlap. Barcodes are a line-of-sight technology, which is a significant difference between the two. In other words, a scanner needs to "see" the barcode in order to read it. By contrast, radiofrequency identification (RFID) tags can be read as long as they are in range of a reader.