RFID Special
RFID Applications in Business
RFID is used for everything from tracking cows and pets to triggering equipment down oil wells. It may sound trite, but the applications are limited only by people’s imagination. RFID is also used for security (including controlling access to buildings and networks) and payment systems that let customers pay for items without using cash. The most common applications are tracking goods in the supply chain, containers, high value tools and other assets, and parts moving to a manufacturing production line. However for tracking goods in the supply chain, the technology needs to be standardized so that it can act as a common language of business. Read more
RFID Special
Standardizing RFID the EPCGlobal way
EPCglobal is leading the development of industry-driven standards for the Electronic Product Code (EPC) to support the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in today’s fast-moving, information rich, trading networks.
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RFID Special
RFID tags
An RFID tag is a small object that can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person. RFID tags contain silicon chips and antennas to enable them to receive and respond to radio-frequency queries from an RFID transceiver. Read more
RFID Evolution
- RFID Special Issue
The origins of RFID are from World War II. The IFF transponder, was invented by the British in 1939, to know whether the aircraft was friend or foe.
In its simplest form a product tag, made of a microchip with a tiny antenna, is attached to a product. An associated tag reader puts out electromagnetic waves. The tag antenna receives the waves and the tag itself draws power from the field generated by the reader, powering the chip, and then modulates the reader signal, sending it back where it is converted into digital data. Read more
Overcoming the Challenge
No lip service. No big promises. No high talks. Just plain and simple delivery. That's what the Internet and computers have done for the disabled in the last few years. In a country like ours being handicapped is perhaps a curse, Internet has finally turned the tables. Read more
