Clients in the News: In retail stores, hospitals, distribution centers, and beyond, will the ability to read passive tags across a reasonably large swath of real estate with a single reader be a game changer in RFID deployment? So called wide area readers or wide area monitoring systems involve readers and antennas packaged in a housing about the size of a pizza box, mounted on a ceiling and capable of continuously reading all tags across some chunk of retail or distribution space. Read more: