The RFID Centre, which has DTI backing, and will have an office "within a taxi ride of Heathrow" within weeks, will also showcase a wide range of RFID applications and provide education, impartial advice and testing services to UK and European businesses to help them evaluate and implement RFID. Ed Cowley, the Centre's director, says: "Many of RFID's benefits are universal, so a broad swathe of industry stands to gain.