Standardization and Technology Optimization Trigger Growth in the Asia Pacific RFID Inlays Market
NewswireToday (newswire) - The market for radio frequency identification (RFID) tags is set to see considerable growth, gaining traction with increasing deployment in various verticals [more...]
Date: 2008-07-23 14:57:44
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Weekly Newswire October 3rd, 2008
Access this week's industry, legal, and policy news... California Makes It a Crime to 'skim' RFID Tags PC World This week, California became the second state to pass a law making it illegal to steal data from RFID (radio frequency identification [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 18:11:20
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Healthcare I.T. News EU - Council unveils pioneering RFID approach to improving dementia care "Nottingham City Council has launched an innovative service that uses Radio Frequency Identification ... ." (via Peter Jones) (tags: localauthority enabledbydesign technology mentalhealth healthcare [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 13:00:11
The Implanted Radio-Frequency Identification Chip: “Smart Cards” in a Surveillance Society
Dandelion Salad by Tom Burghardt Global Research, September 6, ... when a RFID reader emits a radio signal. The chips are divided into two categories, passive or active. A “ ... 2008Antifascist Calling… RFID tags implanted in physical objects or human beings If incorporating [more...]
Date: 2008-09-07 17:29:50
Study: RFID Tags May Scramble Hospital Equipment
A new study is raising questions over how radio frequency identification chips could be interacting with hospital equipment ... . They also power many cities' transit payment systems and are used for animal identification and store theft [more...]
Date: 2008-06-25 18:49:31
How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People
Radio-frequency identi fication (RFID) tags are embedded in a growing number of personal items and identity documents ... with radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags that can be read right through a wallet, pocket ... identification number. As the bearer approaches a border station, radio energy broadcast by a reader [more...]
Date: 2008-08-26 11:29:58
How Do Radio Tagged Cards Work?
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems have three components: a small silicon microchip attached to an antenna; a reader and a computer database. The RFID tags themselves can be as small as half a millimeter square, the size of a tiny seed. Some are thin enough to be embedded in paper. Most tags today [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 15:54:58
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02Jan09 goin’ even more green By tjwsmum Categories: Family, Frugal/Freebies and Personal I am SUCH a nerd ... me with a “large 95 gallon wheeled recycling cart equipped with an RFID (radio frequency identification) tag ... ! Like what, you might ask? Well, corrugated cardboard, chip board from boxes such as cereal, pop, shoe [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 00:58:47
Study Tackles Labeling Errors
With a long-held commitment to continuously improving the quality and safety of patient care, ... of specimen-labeling errors.” This study used a technology, radio-frequency identification (RFID), to track ... . An RFID tag can be applied to or incorporated into an object so that it can be identified by using [more...]
Date: 2008-10-06 14:15:44
RFID Sniffer: Sniffs out tagged objects
I thought only my dog Brownie had great sniffing power but here is RFID Sniffer which doesn't sniff bones ... : Shaw selects ODIN technologies to design and install a radio frequency identification (RFID ... can detect 13.56 MHz RFID tags deployed generally in case of bank cards, loyalty cards etc. The kit [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 03:57:34
New RFID Chips Could Pose Threat To Data Protection
(Crealis) -- A research article published in the current issue of the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management suggests that Big ... regarding data protection are not addressed in the design of new RFID applications. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips can be found tagging everything from groceries and clothing [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 17:27:11
‘Chipping’ of Humans No Longer the Stuff of Novels
From American Free Press Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs) are finding their way into and onto humans in many ways ... the groundwork for later RFID tagging on children and elderly for “safety reasons.” Some unverified ... of students using Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID). Microchips will be attached [more...]
Date: 2008-07-22 13:39:44
Weekly Newswire October 9th, 2008
Access this week's industry, legal, and policy news... Radio-Frequency Tags Cut Specimen Bottle Errors U.S ... , is proposing that busy labs add radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to track and ... Compliance Remains Top Reason , But Other Benefits Begin to Prompt ... SDA Asia Magazine Consumer goods [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 20:41:06
RFID, Privacy and the Surveillance Society
If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) ... of everyday life. RFID tags are small computer chips connected to miniature antennae that can be fixed ... and civil liberties: * Hidden placement of tags. RFID tags can be embedded into/onto objects [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 13:40:25
Make buses more friendly to the blind with Rfid tags
bus-stop.jpg To use Rfid tags on public vehicles, communicating their identification number to the blind in big cities ... called Radio Frequency Identification (Rfid). This technology allows object to interact with other objects through a tiny microchip (tag) and radio waves. One group of students came [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 14:41:17
RFID's new utility in the datacenter
When you think of RFID, you likely think of the radio tags being used to track items in a warehouse or verify prescriptions in a hospital -- two long-time uses of the radio frequency identification tags. But today, RFID's biggest growth ... is now found in the RFID tagging of IT assets, especially those deemed high-value, says Michael [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 18:47:09
RFID 'Smart Cards' in a surveillance society
"If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) ... of everyday life. "RFID tags are small computer chips connected to miniature antennae that can be fixed to or implanted within physical objects, including human beings. The RFID chip itself contains [more...]
Date: 2008-09-21 03:36:13
Robotic chef that clean ups after you
By keeping track of all the contents of your kitchen and able to perform simple tasks with its impressive arms could this be the ... by the Technical University of Munich the unnamed machine utilises radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on dishes and utensils in its kitchen and avoids some of the pitfalls from previous [more...]
Date: 2008-07-16 09:03:04
UTSA CAMLS Holds Radio Frequency Identification Workshop
The University of Texas at San Antonio's Center for Advanced Manufacturing & Lean Systems (CAMLS) ... or transponders. RFID tags are objects that can be applied to or incorporated into a product, animal ... Association and held a one-day Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Workshop. RFID is an automatic [more...]
Date: 2008-06-13 19:03:36
Enabling Technologies (2)
Unintelligent gadgets. This includes devices such as sensors and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags ... of devices can pack a great of functionality in a small device. A good example of RFID in use is vehicle-tracking tags. The idea here is that a small sticker-like RFID tag is placed on the inside [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 08:43:10
RFID Privacy and You
RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) is a tiny wireless technology which has the potential to radically transform the commerce world ... with regard to individual privacy and corporate espionage. While barcode-type RFID tags ... with regard to RFID are important not only in the theoretical sphere, but increasingly such discussions [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 04:20:47
RFID in Libraries Guide
A technology that was originally developed for the military during World War II, ... , automotives, fast food, travel industry, and so on, is RFID or Radio Frequency Identification. RFID ... machines in identifying objects. It consists of a transponder or a tag which has an embedded [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 16:59:29
VeriChip Closes Sale of Subsidiary - RFID
It appears having a “chip” implant is perhaps not as popular as one might have thought as least on the consumer medical records side. Stanley, the tools folks, have purchased one portion of the business , Xmark which makes RFID ... Xmark sells radio frequency identification technology to tag and track newborns, adults prone [more...]
Date: 2008-07-18 21:56:53
The Next Generation of Digital Media in Retail
Customers are now able to engage with Digital Media in a way that was never possible with passive aisle mounted large screens running TV style content. Using the latest RFID technology shoppers can now interact at the Point of Decision ... . The solution comprises of LCD screens and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tagged products [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 12:56:27
Low-cost nanotechnology substitute for gold and silver in printable electronics
Ink-jet printing of metal nanoparticles for conductive metal patterns has attracted great interest as an alternative to expensive fabrication ... and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. Nobel metals like silver and gold are preferred ... -cost applications such as RFID tags with required unit costs below one cent. A new technique [more...]
Date: 2008-10-14 02:46:27
RFID Tutorial - Everything You Need
RFID Tutorial - Everything You Need Radio Frequency Identification tags are everywhere. Inside these tiny tags is a predetermined code which can be read by an RFID reader. These are used in credit cards, badges, pet tracking just to name a few. Some people feel they create too muc… [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 02:23:22
Line of Sight
Line of sight …. what an interesting visual that provides. It is used in a variety of industries ... . “Line of sight” applies to radio frequency identification tag RFID technology. This means that the reader, the ‘laser eye’ line, has to have an unimpeded path to the code that it is reading [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 02:03:32
RFID goes beyond inventory tracking
By: Grant Buckler - Network World Canada Click here to view original article ... to affix radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to merchandise has been the poster boy for RFID for so long that anyone could be forgiven for thinking RFID is simply an inventory control technology – [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 20:54:11
Radiator 09: Exploits in the Wireless City
I’m bound for Nottingham later this week for the Raditor Festival and Symposium, ... will be networked in a complex system of information exchange. Based on technologies such as RFID (radio frequency identification tags), our environment would turn into a space of “ambient intelligence” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 15:39:09
Don’t scan RFIDs in the hospital!
Warning! Hospitals have tested radio-frequency ID devices in a scanner and found that too many of them interfere with hospital equipment up to 6 metres away. The Corpus Callosum reports: Radio Frequency IDentification tags (RFIDs) are little devices that communicate with other devices, sending an identification signal. You’ve probably seen [more...]
Date: 2008-07-05 16:00:15
The Implanted Radio-Frequency Identification Chip: “Smart Cards” in a Surveillance Society
If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) ... are divided into two categories, passive or active. A “passive” tag doesn’t contain a battery and its “read” range is variable, from less than an inch to twenty or thirty feet. An “active” tag on the other [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 17:12:15
RFID Tutorial - Everything You Need
RFID Tutorial - Everything You Need Radio Frequency Identification tags are everywhere. Inside these tiny tags is a predetermined code which can be read by an RFID reader. These are used in credit cards, badges, pet tracking just to name a few. Some people feel they create too muc… [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 02:23:22
Ambient intelligence
The Internet of Things :: Institute of Network Cultures: "Cities across the world are about to enter the next phase of their development ... network of RFID (.pdf). ... . A near invisible network of radio frequency identification tags (RFID) is being deployed [more...]
Date: 2008-10-14 09:14:53
MIT and the City of Copenhagen
I've had a few links about this sent to me, but I haven't figured out how to blog about it. So I'll just chuck up a link and summarise... :-) ... a smart tag that functions a lot like RFID (radio frequency identification) technology. The tag, which [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 08:14:25
Video: an everywhere world (RFIDs, tracking, the Internet of Things)
Some good snippets here - and some of some quite scary, too: "An "Everyware" world, as Adam Greenfield calls it, is a world in which computers are embedded and merged seamlessly everywhere in the environment. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags communicate their position and other information constantly in a vast network [more...]
Date: 2008-09-28 11:27:15
Painted on micro sensors
Tiny radios embedded in paint could be used to pick up sound, ... Systems, started exploring this technology based on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in 2002, and filed patents in 2005. ‘People complain that most of the cost in manufacturing RFID tags [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 08:10:11
Real Time Location Systems
Posted by: Paul DeBeasi Introduction Real-time location systems (RTLS) have been around for years ... of technology as described below: § RFID: Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems consist of low-cost electronic tags that can be interrogated by electronic readers. In most RFID environments [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 18:37:02
Better sensors will reduce food wastage
Advances in sensing technology will help reduce food wastage, causing a loss of 10 billion pounds ($20 billion) ... . The new printed sensors are based on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and will be modified ... annually in Britain alone, according to a report. Sensors can detect early indications of food [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 07:07:40
RFID tinkering kit
Radio frequency identification tags are not the most secure things in the world ... in concealed locations. Hide readers in an equal number of places around my house. Then, when you put ... lair… For added security, one might put the last reader in the bookshelf itself, and the last tag [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 22:44:17
Bicycle Blog Roundup, 11/11/08
Yes, by the way, starting with last week, I’ve dropped the “news media” part of the roundup, and just focused on blogs. Yay! Tech-Enabled Bike Sharing Rolls Into North America, The Huffington Post Now RFID (radio frequency identification) tags and Smart Card payment systems have created a third generation of bike share [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 20:24:41
Nats to Expand WiFi Offerings at the Ballpark
From PC World (and also a ton of other places via press release): "After a first successful season running 802 ... RFID (radio frequency identification) tags to track cash bags over the Wi-Fi network as they are carried from a concession stand to the safe, Zachariah added. The tags could also be distributed [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 15:36:24
40% Productivity Gain for GEL-AL of Turkey
June 3, 2008, Morgan Hill, California – Alien Technology, a leader in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) ... totes travel throughout the various production stations. STS, a leading RFID systems integrator in Turkey, equipped each tote with an Alien® high-performance UHF/EPC compliant M-tag (inlay), which [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 19:48:08
IT: Internal Transmitters
What to all our internal transmitters? Well, perhaps you have heard of radio frequency identification tags or R. F. I. D. and if so this is the technology that will be implanted subdermal into humans for tracking. At first, RFID Tags will be used to track children in case they are abducted or to track child molesters [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 19:40:23
GE develops battery-free RFID tags
GE Global Research has announced a new type of radio-frequency identification (RFID) ... smaller sensors at low cost, opening up a new range of potential applications from measuring ... Related Articles: Cell Phones to monitor the air and alert users to harmful chemicals and gases RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 06:01:29
Converging digital and physical infrastructures: instrumented, interconnected, intelligent
I was listening to Sam Palmisano’s talk on “A Smarter Planet” as part of the Technology and Foreign Policy discussion at the Council for Foreign ... million RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags within 2 years. The world is becoming [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 20:20:42
Chip Implants To Avoid Identity Frauds? By Mary Wise
Chip Implants To Avoid Identity Frauds? By Mary Wise Posted by: admin In: ... . However it is said that its pay system, based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology ... of the owner’s interests? Not So New RFID tags are becoming popular, especially with those companies [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 04:55:12
Researchers Reveal Security, Privacy Vulnerabilities in ‘Enhanced’ Driver’s Licenses
Researchers Reveal Security, Privacy Vulnerabilities in ‘Enhanced’ Driver’s Licenses November 4th, ... , it is a technically straightforward matter to copy the data from a Passport Card’s RFID tag into another, off ... an individual’s citizenship status. They are also equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 09:12:38
Trends: 'WiTricity' -:- Breakthrough in wireless power pulls plug on cables!?
Small, battery-powered gadgets make powerful computing portable ... some types of radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. The phenomenon behind this sort of wireless ... wires in, for instance, an RFID rea... .. . Read more: Wireless Power The Next Big Thing - full [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 08:31:44
Boston Tea Party 2008
The Boston Tea Party 2008 is happening this weekend in Boston.Tickets prices are $17.76 (what else?) ... and last year’s key note speakerDr. Katherine Albrecht who is leading the fight to stop RFID tagging and chipping. A new consumer goods tracking system called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is poised [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 15:31:00
‘Chipping’ of Humans No Longer the Stuff of Novels; Use of RFIDs Becoming Commonplace in America
View the article here Like I've said before, you can stick this chip where the sun doesn't shine ... be a good idea, but it lays the groundwork for later RFID tagging on children and elderly for “safety ... to electronically track the movements of students using Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-07-15 10:17:00
