RFID tags implanted in physical objects or human beings

RFID tags implanted in physical objects or human beings Sep 11th, 2008 by admin by Tom Burghardt on GlobalResearch ... 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 hand, is self-powered [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 17:15:09

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Do You Know Where Your Container Is?

ship-container Developers believe a new generation of tracking devices will overcome some limitations of RFID ... , and alert of damage. SaviNetworks, the world's largest provider of active RFID tags, is close to launching ... advantages over RFID-based solutions, said Murray Gibson, Hutchison Ports UK's general manager [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:40:02

GAO launches beaconing tag

Canadian firm GAO RFID Inc. has released a new 2.4GHz active beaconing RFID tag ... in asset locating and tracking and warehouse inventory management applications. The new tag ... receives a specific signal from a nearby RFID reader, a built-in LED flashes to assist the user [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 19:12:00

New GE RFID Sensor Platform

Have seen presentations by GE on their tagging applications, primarily in the area of active and powered RFID for use with expensive assets ... has developed a low-cost, RFID-based sensor platform that is capable of detecting multiple chemical or biological agents -- all without a battery. The passive RFID tags could potentially be used in health [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 14:43:00

Schools using RFID for security enhancement

Aeroscout Inc., a provider of asset visibility solutions, has announced the adoption of its visibilty solution by two educational institutions ... based Active RFID tags are affixed to the equipment. The tags communicate with the school’ ... some real world examples of how schools can use RFID technology to cope with various school security [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 19:15:00

Schools using RFID for security enhancement

Aeroscout Inc., a provider of asset visibility solutions, has announced the adoption of its visibilty solution by two educational institutions ... based Active RFID tags are affixed to the equipment. The tags communicate with the school’ ... some real world examples of how schools can use RFID technology to cope with various school security [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 19:15:00

Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags ... barcoding and interrogators. We are really focused on the active RFID tagging area. Who are the typical [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 14:00:00

Scratch built RFID tags

rfid nmarquardt has put up an interesting instructable that covers building RFID tags ... just has a cap and a low power LED to prove that the antenna is receiving power. The next iteration uses tilt ... variations: different antenna lengths, conductive paint, light activated and more. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 04:50:06

RFID & Biometric ID cards

RFID & Biometric ID cards June 17, 2008 at 3:22 am · Filed under On Anti-Corporate Personhood, On Body & Health, On Education, On Politics, ... . The interrogator, an antenna packaged with a transceiver and decoder, emits a signal activating the RFID tag ... implemented and potentially poses a severe threat to our right to privacy. RFID is short [more...]

Date: 2008-06-17 07:29:34

SecureRF receives SBIR grant to develop a secure, satellite-enabled, RFID system

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher SecureRF Corporation has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) ... identification (RFID) system. The secure global RFID system is intended to verify the actual location ... protocol within an active RFID tag with GPS functions. For more information, see the press release [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 22:08:19

Smart Bottles Reduce Glass Breakage

Smart Bottles Reduce Glass Breakage Glass container maker Ardagh Glass, as well as Coca-Cola, Coors and other beverage companies, are using facsimile bottles with built-in active RFID tags and sensors to identify sites ... Mechanical Thinks This Might Be The Big One! Integration Story: Laredo's Water Department Uses RFID To... more... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 19:53:40

RFID Read Range: Just how far can RFID track something?

Tomorrow, we will be announcing the new AD 224 RFID chip from Avery Dennison will be used in our Pro-Tags DoD product lines and our premier Nox-1 ... .   Side Note: Active RFID is different and would cost $20+ per tag and give several-hundred feet ... , this optimization can use RFID as a trip-wire because any disturbance in the force will cause loss of tag [more...]

Date: 2008-07-12 16:03:13

ASK and WS Packaging to create a Joint Venture in the US

The expert of RFID and the expert in packaging share experience to develop contactless in the US market Paris, Cartes show, November 4, ... manufacturer of labels, WS Packaging Group was the perfect partner to boost our activity of RFID tags,” said ... based on a silver antenna on paper substrate and die chip attach process. So far, 130 persons [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 15:29:00

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

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

RFID Wristbands

RFID Wristbands -125x125 Button - right- Idtronic is a worldwide supplier of RFID solutions such as ISO Cards, Keyfobs, Tags, RFID Readers, Mobile & Handheld Readers, UHF Long Range Readers, and Active Systems, as well as personalization for these products. It just announced three new products based on this technology, in the shape [more...]

Date: 2008-07-12 12:20:58

Fitbit will get you off the couch

For years, celebs and CEOs have the luxury of having a personal fitness trainer shadow them, tracking their activity levels, ... corporate keycards and RFID tags that can rat you out were an invasion of privacy, those were ... parties. Can FitBit really make tracking fitness so simple that people will change [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 00:08:00

Nike’s USA Track and Field uniforms unveiled

Shaving milliseconds of personal best times could mean the difference between gold and silver at the forthcoming Beijing Olympics - and once again ... activity Washable RFID tags to benefit clothing logistics Sporting gloves and boots with 16X times [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 07:54:19

KEVIN DUFFY: Why passive RFID is a serious RTLS option, Pt. 1

Oct. 28, 2009 – Two weeks ago Mojix announced field trials of its self-described "breakthrough" passive RFID technology. Senior V.P ... it. Active technology utilizes expensive tags, sometimes to tens of dollars. And those would ... at this. The Mojix product introduction in April, that here was a passive RFID reader technology [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 14:20:23

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

GAO Presents Cost Effective, On Metal, Active RFID

T equipment, vehicles and transport media. This advanced active tag is powered by an internal battery and will transmit a radio frequency signal at pre-set time-intervals for the duration of its life [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:03:22

Air Force Base Deploys Wi-Fi/GPS RFID System Across 2,500 Acres

"The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) is adopting a system that combines Wi-Fi-based active RFID tags and GPS to help it track equipment and tools at its 110-million-square-foot compound at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 03:09:39

RFID tags could help manage data center assets

Data center staffers are typically not employed to maintain inventories of hardware assets, ... adoption, said Jonathan Collins, U.K-based principal analyst by the RFID & contactless group at ABI ... of the extreme point of 2013. IT managers can use passive or active RFID technology. With passive [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 03:25:38

What we do at IONLAB

When I meet people and have a conversation, they eventually ask the question “So, what do you guys do? ... get RFID-tagged colorful bracelets to wear. The tags serve multiple purposes from identifying each ... is the Swinxs (found via Springwise). The Swinxs games console is designed for active games both [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 05:27:43

Psion Teklogix Unveils NEO - The Newest Channel-Centric Pocket-Sized Handheld Computer

Psion Teklogix Unveils NEO - The Newest Channel-Centric.. ... Instruments Opens New Closed-Loop Contactless Markets With ... Leading Chemical Company Deploys Savi Smartchain Asset... Smallest, Fastest Active RFID Tags On The Market Now Available... GAO Offers [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 18:18:17

GE concocts battery-free RFID sensing platform, possibilities abound

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, WirelessRemember when RFID was the next big thing? ... . Reportedly, the outfit has developed a battery-free RFID sensing platform -- one that can provide a highly ... , etc." Put simply, the tags get their power from the sensor reader, which activates the tag's antenna [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 17:47:41

Indian Mine Monitors Workers and Toxic Gases

Indian Mine Monitors Workers and Toxic Gases PervCom's active 2 ... Roberti A renowned U.S. magazine has published an article by a well-known opponent of RFID ... .4 GHz RFID tags, attached to cap lamps, track miners' locations and contain sensors for measuring [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 21:45:18

RFID Tracking

Bald in deinem Supermarkt... Siehe auch:Patent von IBM: Identification and tracking of persons using RFID-tagged items Patent von NCR: Automated monitoring of activity of shoppers in a market Weitere Patente zum Thema RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 18:17:00

Think NFC is Just Ticketing and Payments? Think Again.

Near field communication (NFC) is a viable enabling technology for activities ranging from securely exchanging medical records to popping perfect ... is a wireless communication technology with only a few inches of range. It is most commonly used for contactless ... then described a potential use case where an NFC RFID tag is embedded in microwave [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 16:13:17

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

Indonesian Province Considers Bill Requiring Microchip Implant For AIDS Patients

Legislators in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua are poised to pass a law requiring AIDS-infected locals who are sexually active to be implanted with microchips so they can be monitored. A Papuan lawmaker defended the bill saying a microchip tag or RFID will protect healthy people. "I am a doctor, saving lives is my profession [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 10:50:02

Data Mining for Terrorists Doesn't Work

According to a massive report from the National Research Council, data mining for terrorists doesn't work ... to RFID tags in automobiles, than a decade ago, and the databases created by those activities [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 12:35:43

RFID @ TechEd 2008 Update - Your/my Privacy concerns

Hi folks - over the last week or so I've had many requests about what's happening around privacy and what does it mean to get a "Tag" this year ... on a very cut down alpha variation - together we cut the code and got about 5 mins of RFID activity [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 15:11:33

Sniftag: The Internet of Things includes pets too

The SNIF website is intuitive and easy to use. When you log in, you’ll find all the information your dog’s SNIF Tag has recorded: the other dogs he met, his activities and exercise history, and all kinds of helpful tools to help ... The Sniftag is an RFID-enabled accelerometer, which uniquely identifies your pet, tracks [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 22:19:49

A Review of ‘Little Brother’ by Cory Doctorow

The always thought provoking Cory Doctorow has a new book out, Little Brother.  I highly recommend it, even though I think he is very wrong on numerous points.  You can download it for free at the link above. It is very difficult to write a political novel.  I should know, I’ve started 3 or 4 of them, and they all turned out badly [more...]

Date: 2008-10-04 15:22:47

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/13/2009

Check out tonight’s “behavioral sink” stories from the UK. Every night there are at least a few, but tonight seems to have more than its share ...  Europe and the EUEurope Develops RFID License Plate TrackingItaly: WWII Supreme Court Explains Why ... : Threatened Algerian Writer One Year in ItalyTunisia: Emigrant Revenue Grows by 10% in 2008 Israel [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 04:58:00

Laminar Batteries Power Next-Generation Products

Issue #175 | Jan. 9, 2009 | by Dr. Peter Harrop Writing about printed electronics often as I do, the dynamics of the marketplace keep coming fast ... every year, the choice is coin cells. Coin cells are the favoured power source not just for active RFID ... based on old advances in color, shape and mechanical function are rapidly being overtaken. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:08:43

short introduction on RFID technology.

Here is a short introduction on RFID technology. You will discover the fundamental concepts and the various components of this fascinating ... is received from a reader Type of tags : RFID Tag also called a transponder is a device attached ... - not at the SKU) Can operate in harsh environment Access card : equipped with HF (High frequency) passive RF [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 11:14:24

Plastic Logic Flexible Electronic-Reading Device

September 8, 2008 The electronic reader industry has promised a lot for a long time and despite bullish forecasts, has yet to make mainstream status ... at the DEMOfall 08 technology conference. With a large 8.5 x 11-inch form factor, the Plastic Logic reader ... Display Philips demonstrates world-first technical feasibility of 13.56-MHz RFID tags based [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 10:25:15

NFC-Near Field Communication

This might not be a hot finding,but I found it to be an interesting topic when I came across it,over at Nokia Upcoming Innovations ... : card emulation: the NFC device behaves like an existing contactless card reader mode: the NFC ... as an NFC tag, for example, contactless smart card for payments replacing your credit card or electronic [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 02:46:43

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

Two Historic RFID Regulation Bills—Important to Our Privacy and Safety--Await Governor Schwarzenegger’s Decision

Zack-Kaldveer.gif By Zack Kaldveer Consumer Federation of California Tiny computer chips called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ... and other government issued cards without our knowledge. These “human identification systems” pose clear information security risks that can threaten individual privacy and public safety. RFID chips allow [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 12:06:05

LS09: Blogger's Lounge Update

Sorry to everyone that has been hanging on, I can now fill in the gaps ... were discussed and various promotional vendors were invited to assist.Our intention is to host ... will once again play a large part for most of us in Orlando trying to find another. Perhaps the RFID tags [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 18:07:00

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

Cash Advance Payday Loans Canada

Read More... | 2441 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 157 (1564 total stories) ... · cyn.in Announces 25% Discount to SuiteTwo Customer · GAO Offers 433MHz Active Handheld RFID Reader ... · KWizCom Announces SharePoint Wiki Plus Version 1.2 · RFID Vehicle Tracking System Operating in UHF [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:03:22

World's Smallest Active Asset RFID Tag from Orizin

World E. F. Schumacher had said that 'small is beautiful' and in the world of RFID technology there seems to be a race for making sure that small ... . Related Entries: Mexican University to Implement RFID Asset Tracking - 15 October 2006 ... with the claim of world's smallest RFID chip and now it's the turn of another company to utter the same [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 13:57:29

ROB BALGLEY: Sales chain RFID manages inventory in the field

Dec. 18, 2008 – CEO Rob Balgley discusses how Skyetek is helping companies extend their management of inventory from their own premises to " ... that active RFID often runs on; but you are not talking about using active RFID per ... outside of a premises-based distribution center or warehouse – basically the idea of being able [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 15:57:34

Some Worrying News for Clinical RFID Industry

A Dutch study published in the June 25 issue of JAMA assessed the effects of electromagnetic interference (EMI) from RFID ( ... radio frequency identification) devices on hospital equipment. The authors report ... setting to assess and classify incidents of electromagnetic interference by RFID on critical care [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 07:25:50

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

Notes from CCC 2008

While attending CCC 2008, I was making notes, as usual (see DIMVA, DeepSec) ... the data Security Failures in Smart Card Payment systems UK process: card reports account #, … ... for a fall-back transaction with a cloned card = PIN entry device should be temper-proof, are certified [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:17:17

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