RFID mashups in the library - Thinkering Spaces (via Shifted Librarian)
Jenny Levine has a good story about innovative uses of RFID in libraries from the Thinkering Spaces project: RFID is a big component of the system, as it identifies content and allows it to travel with an object. To start, the TS folks put a book with an RFID chip on the reader, which triggers a process [more...]
Date: 2008-06-20 13:12:40
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Weekly Newswire August 13th, 2008
Access this week's industry, legal, and policy news... Massachusetts sues to halt Defcon subway card hacking CNET News - .. ... - The budget, as far as I can determine, primarily covers installation of a passive RFID infrastructure -- which scans tags placed on cases and pallets ... Researchers Work on Using RFID to Calculate [more...]
Date: 2008-08-13 16:07:43
Sony offers modules to its FeliCa RFID technology
Sony+offers+modules+to+its+FeliCa+RFID+technology Mainly used in Japanese mobile phones or Transportation cards (JR Suica for example), anyway the needs for RFID solution is pretty high lately and in order to please its customers, Sony announced 2 new more module to its FeliCa line-up with the FeliCa Plug (RC-S801) which [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 06:06:29
Hospital hazards, "Holy Crap" Department
We take for it granted that technology can be used to tag objects in various ways, useful and otherwise. The anti-theft devices used on retail clothing stores are a familiar example. Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) are used for this purpose as well as for security access. I have a device [more...]
Date: 2008-06-29 19:49:32
FasTrak Toll Tag Prank
This is an evil, destructive prank and I really don't recommend you do this. But it's so devious, we thought you deserved to know about it ... booth without stopping to pay. FasTrak uses RFID technology to read data from a transponder placed in a vehicle. The RFID transponder in each vehicle is associated with a prepaid debit account; each [more...]
Date: 2008-10-12 21:08:21
When Technology is Transparent
If you’ve ever had a “Toll Tag” - a device which lets you drive on toll roads without stopping to pay with cumbersome coins - you know the ... a grocery store that use RFID for auto-scanning items for checkout and bills your credit card on file ... t offer bar code scanning Motion backgrounds that stutter and skip behind song lyrics Microsoft [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 19:17:04
Crazy Rhode Island School RFID’ing Students
In a move that shows a blatant disregard for civil liberties and personal freedoms, a Rhode Island school district will be testing out a program that monitor’s student movement via RFID chips in backpacks. Right now, 80 children are using the RFID-equipped backpacks. Buses [more...]
Date: 2008-06-25 15:07:40
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
Changing for the Better
Its been a couple of months since I last updated this blog so I wanted to do a quick post letting folks know what I've been up to and what is ... are positive. About six months ago I changed jobs. I'm now a senior consultant at SecureState where ... researching a number of topics including the security of RFID prox cards used in many access control [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 03:29:00
Privacy in an age of terabytes and terror
Scientific American magazine (SciAm) devotes the whole September issue to privacy in an age of rapidly developing technology ... surveillance: tools of the spy trade Night-vision cameras, biometric sensors and other gadgets already give snoops access to private spaces. Coming soon: palm-size “bug-bots”. How RFID tags could be used [more...]
Date: 2008-08-26 06:47:44
MRI's Colorful Future
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Institutes of Health are working on technology that promises to ... can be thought of as microscopic RF identification (RFID) tags, similar to those used for identifying ... is flexible and could have other applications such as in enabling RFID-based microscopic fluid [more...]
Date: 2008-06-20 12:11:26
'Xmas futures, crystal balls?' - Festive Chinwag Live
I had a hectic day on Tuesday, as after speaking at the FreePint stand at Online Information I then headed into central London for the last Chinwag ... . He suggested that people worry about ID cards, but that nobody loses sleep over the data Tesco holds ... with an anecdote about attending a conference with 'active' delegate badges. Using RFID technology [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 08:55:12
Society's Secrecy Fetish
A hot topic of conversation at last week's CRN/IEET seminar on Global Catastrophic Risks was the whole issue of privacy, ... , you're already using RFID. Your Speedpass contains a microchip and a small antenna that allows ... . The title was Privacy and Accountability: "You need not be paranoid to fear RFID," says an op-ed piece [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 17:57:10
RFID Tags Enable 24/7 Surveillance [Part II]
in my last blog entry, I described how states on the U.S. and Mexican borders have begun to issue "enhanced driver licenses," which can be used at U.S. border crossings in Mexico and Canada. Each license incorporates a RFID tag encoded ... America and the U.S. government plan to use the massive amounts of data gathered through RFID tags [more...]
Date: 2008-09-02 21:30:04
5 no-frill tactics to improve in ‘09
You can go ahead and send your wish list to Santa, but you’ll be better off forwarding a copy to the budget writers at your own company ... aging technology. If your warehouse management system (WMS) is more than 4 years old, it’s worth ... technologies, such as bar-code scanning or RFID. Prices are dropping as use rises. Monitor best practices [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 16:27:28
RFID aesthetics article
rfsqtags.jpg PingMag writes: Now, while strolling the booths at the RFID Expo that just took place at Tokyo’s Big Sight, we began wondering what RFID is used for best: as a button on a chef’s uniform to let him open the kitchen door; as an infant’s bracelet for a motion detector; embedded in boxes to trace [more...]
Date: 2008-06-28 19:21:33
RFID aesthetics article
rfsqtags.jpg PingMag writes: Now, while strolling the booths at the RFID Expo that just took place at Tokyo’s Big Sight, we began wondering what RFID is used for best: as a button on a chef’s uniform to let him open the kitchen door; as an infant’s bracelet for a motion detector; embedded in boxes to trace [more...]
Date: 2008-06-28 20:00:27
NXT nibblets
I keep ending up with a list of things to mention, but not enough time to do it (or not enough material for a full post) ... involved. Take a look, and enjoy the music & presentation. HALE YouTube Mission Steve Hassenplug ... robots that casual observers can "program" by using RFID cards swiped by a sensor on the robot [more...]
Date: 2008-09-04 12:54:04
Key2SafeDriving is aimed to keep kids from talking/texting while driving
Researchers at the University of Utah have created a device that they see as hopefully saving the lives of some teenage drivers who like to chat or ... within the immediate vicinity. It uses either Bluetooth or RFID to communicate with the paired ... this December Nokia Beta Labs launched early beta version Nokia Music PC application Pink LG Venus [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 09:03:02
Insecure by design
Would you design a system which you know is vulnerable to hacking? However, the fact is that secure systems do cost more than their non-secure ( ... an RFID-based cards used for prepaying highway tolls in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the barcode based system used by the National Library Board in Singapore. Both systems can be easily broken [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 08:19:07
Daily news beat for August 20, 2008
RFID's new utility in the datacenter. The No. 1 growth category for RFID tags is IT asset management ... information security. Related: Four exotic uses of RFID that just might surprise you. CRM host Salesforce.com scoops up InStranet, the maker of knowledge-based management products for call centers in a deal [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 17:40:07
The Matrix is Expanding
Homeland Security is now using a RFID Scanning device that will allow border patrol agents to scan your papers from at least 50 feet away ... on their own RFID scanners and "skim" your information from afar; effectively picking your pocket ... . These scanners are powerful enough to gather your passport and other identification through [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 15:37:39
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
‘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
Interview with Dr. Ramin Sadr, Mojix
Dr. Ramin Sadr is CEO of Los Angeles-based Mojix (www.mojix.com) ... -- of all things -- deep space probes for NASA, and has been applying that to the RFID market ... extend the range of passive RFID tags, used for things like supply chain automation, asset tracking [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 13:28:26
RFID Works For Big Brother
RFID Works For Big Brother British reality program Celebrity Big Brother is using Wavetrend active RFID tags to track the movements of the show's participants. By Claire Swedberg, RFID Journal Smart Bottles Reduce Glass Breakage Inventory Management Helps Build A Bridge: Glidewell... Case Study: Whiteman Airforce Base Keeps The B-2 Bomber [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 14:51:45
You've already used RFID
Image via WikipediaHave you ever walked out of a bookstore and walked between the unassuming shoulder-height bars at the door? ... (or security guard) will approach you to see what set it off.Guess what? That was an RFID tag printed ... higher for barcodes. What's keeping RFID from replacing barcodes is privacy issues and standardization [more...]
Date: 2008-04-13 00:59:00
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
e.Magiciens 2008
Tinker.it! had the great pleasure of helping curate the Lab space for the 10th edition of the e ... some physical challenges of their own through games. - The Dreaming Pillow project which i really loved ... as part of the event, we put together a voting infrastructure to allow visitors to vote, using RFID cards [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 18:32:53
links for 2008-12-07
World's Fastest Robot — Computational Neuroscientists And Engineers Build Robot That Teaches Itself To Walk Up And Down Hills ( ... mainframe desktop) Berlin hacker con will use RFID badges to simulate life in a totalitarian panopticon - Boing Boing Ten years time we could all be wearing those!!! (tags: RFID ITGS privacy security [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 04:02:46
links for 2008-12-07
World's Fastest Robot — Computational Neuroscientists And Engineers Build Robot That Teaches Itself To Walk Up And Down Hills ( ... mainframe desktop) Berlin hacker con will use RFID badges to simulate life in a totalitarian panopticon - Boing Boing Ten years time we could all be wearing those!!! (tags: RFID ITGS privacy security [more...]
Date: 2008-12-07 21:02:03
“Flipping the Bit” with 3M and EnvisionWare RFID Systems!
Hello All! Today I am writing about the Item Status API product which makes Millennium Circulation and Express Lane (integrated, self-service circulation) compatible with RFID transactions. It allows staff and patrons to checkin / checkout multiple items at once using an RFID pad while also automatically switching [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 18:50:39
Mapping social interaction using RFID tags
I think this is pretty damn cool.In this paper we present an experimental framework to gather data on face-to-face social interactions between ... Identification (RFID) devices that assess contacts with one another by exchanging low-power radio packets. When individuals wear the beacons as a badge, a persistent radio contact between the RFID devices [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 23:53:00
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
Opening an Oyster with Crapto1
p2pnet news view | Security:- “A decisive breakthrough has been made in the cryptanalysis of the Crypto1 encryption algorithm of the MiFare Classic RFID system used in many contactless travel payment systems including the Transport for London Oyster card,” said Heise Online back in April, going on: “According to a newly published report [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 12:58:40
Fleury’s Open Remote is all about the software
It has been over five years since I started writing about wireless applications which live in the air, for home automation, ... , one-off solutions? There are some killer apps out there, applications which can use sensors, motes, and RFID connected by wireless networks to simple, Linux-based base stations. Linux because that’ [more...]
Date: 2008-07-28 13:02:45
Card Companies Insecure About Security
creditcards195.jpg My opinion I’m not a security expert but I’ve always suspected that RFID (think Chip and PIN credit cards) ... convincing. And remember that this is the same RFID that the Government wants to use for national ... this response when Adam Savage of Mythbusters is asked about RFID at the HOPE conference (Hackers On Planet [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 21:03:18
The End of Privacy?
I've written an article for the September issue of Scientific American magazine called The End of Privacy? ... : Tools of the Spy Trade Katherine Albrecht, How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People ... in an Age of Terabytes and Terror Esther Dyson, How Loss of Privacy May Mean Loss of Security Anna [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 03:15:52
Smart contact lens feels the pressure of glaucoma
University of California, Davis researchers have made a contact lens with a built-in pressure sensor that could help monitor conditions such as glaucoma and ocular hypertension. Prototype lenses with pressure sensors (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH ... continuously, sending data out using a small RFID chip. (Source: http://technology.newscientist.com [more...]
Date: 2008-07-10 02:45:23
Tagged and tracked at the toll booth
Are you one of those folks who loves the convenience of zipping through the toll plaza with one of those electronic toll-paying systems like FasTrak ... toll devices use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to broadcast information ... booth can receive it. Strangers with the right transponder reader walking through a parking lot [more...]
Date: 2008-08-07 19:20:38
Rogers Wireless joins RBC and Visa m-payments pilot
This is an exciting development. After reporting on the far east and their advances in types of wireless payments, ... Communication (NFC) that is described at Wikipedia as - a short-range high frequency wireless ... . The answer is likely both. Others in Japan: Suica issued by JR East (Railway). Uses RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 04:44:48
First week in the Philippines
We arrived exactly one week ago and now we are renting a condominium somewhere between Ortigas and Makati ... using RFID badges in elevators, security camera and 24 hour security guards. Also, no one can access our floor without proper badges. The apartment is fully furnished. Fortunately we only a few minor [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 01:27:53
Enter the Best Teen Chef Competition 2009
Read More... | 4243 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 158 (1575 total stories) ... · GAO Offers Portable RFID Reader/Writer · Sell Used Cars Through CarCash.com · Serenity Health ... Today's most read Story is: 2 Port UHF RFID by GAO RFID Login Nickname [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 18:51:12
A New Year, An Old Story
Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The January/February 2009 issue of Technology Review, ... s analysis of the NXP Mifare Classic, an RFID chip used in fare cards for the public-transit systems” ... Published by MIT included this article - RFID’s Security Problem: Are U.S. passport cards and new [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 21:09:37
List of mobile services and limitations
I believe that mobile is one of the most revolutionary thing happened in our lifetime ... - paper/photo, OCR - Barcode Reader Object Location Identification - RFID Dictionary/Encyclopedia ... /smart card) for uses such as parking lot fee, AVM, Pay any merchant such as autowala E-Books Teaching [more...]
Date: 2008-06-18 07:03:39
Microsoft taps RFID for Tech.Ed delegates
Microsoft taps RFID for Tech.Ed delegates Posted by Gladys Erhardt at August 25, 2008 Cool or not? ... in Sydney next week using RFID tags embedded in conference badges. The move comes months after 50 academics ... in all my activities. Not unless these badges can be taken off during personal moments (like going to the bathroom [more...]
Date: 2008-08-26 01:38:59
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
[Video] Behind Delhi’s World Health Organization Headquarters
My Saturday lunch with Amit, Ashish, Abhishkek, and Ajay was postponed until Sunday. So I decided to get on Delhi’s new(ish) ... token which I assume uses RFID to automatically open the gates. From Rajiv Chowk (Connaught Place ... things immediately catch your eye. One is a giant blue and white building, which it turns [more...]
Date: 2008-08-11 08:56:56
RFID in Baroue Avenues
Thanks to an RFID-based tracking system, parents can drop off their kids at an indoor playground, ... by Mideast systems integrator TagStone using Ubisense RFID readers, tags and cameras and Ubisense’ ... s business development manager. rfid tag At the entrance to the Sea Serpent playground, each child [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 09:27:34
Finger Hack - A Young Man Implants RFID to use as wireless key for his Guns!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode We all know that one day the U.S. government will try to implant RFID chips in every U.S. citizen with social security, passport ... , you can take a look at this video of a young man who implanted an RFID chip into his fingers [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 00:25:28
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