New Applications for RFID Keep Springing Up

New applications for RFID continue to be found. From cars to phones, RFID is making an impact. For example, Firetide Inc., the mesh vendor, has developed a mesh-based system for a car dealership which permits car dealers to give quicker test drives as well as more for more data collection in the parking […]



RFID Clears Freeze Test with Flying Colors

Gen 2 RFID and EPC Network could be successfully rolled out in a sub zero production environments. This has been found out in an Australian cold chain RFID pilot project. This is considered to be the world’s first pilot which has tested EPC/RFID standards in a low temperature environment characterized by sub zero temperature, frozen […]

Unilever to Test RFID

Unilever North America would be conducting the trials of the Electronic Product Code Information Services standard in order to query RFID data provided by retailers. This consumer giant plans to conduct a trial in order to collect and access information from within its own manufacturing operation and from trading partners. By making use of the […]

RFID - The Fear of Spying

The opponents of RFID have built there argument on two suppositions: the first supposition is that big companies are powerful and the consumers will not be able to prevent companies from spying on them by the use of RFID tags. The other argument suggests that there is no way to prevent surreptitious reading, or skimming, […]

HF or UHF- Which is a better option for Item Level Tagging

Some time back RFID industry as a whole was divided over UHF and HF RFID tags. The ultrahigh frequency protocol was create under the aegis of ISO (International Organization for standardization) while the Electronic Product Code UHF protocol developed under the aegis of EPCglobal. Now the two facets have come together and have created a […]

Legislation on RFID- Now or Later

The Hart Senate Building was the venue for the first meeting announced by the Senate RFID Caucus. The agenda included introduction by Senator John Cornyn (Rep-Texas) and Senator Byron Dorgan (Dem-North Dakota). There was also a panel discussion on public and business policy issues related to RFID. The entire event seems to be a success. […]

A Comparison of Smart Tokens and Smart Cards for Limited Use Ticketing and Automatic Fare Collection in Mass Transit

Date: May 6th, 2006
White paper prepared by Steven H T Wong, Product Development Director, China Elite Technology Co. Ltd.
BACKGROUND
INTRODUCTION
China Elite Technology Co. Ltd. (CET), a major supplier of smart card products to the transportation industry, has conducted extensive research and development in limited-use smart cards. As a result of research conducted between […]

RFID market Revenue to double in the next Five Years

The novel application of RFID will help in increasing its usage. According Datamonitor over the next five years the revenue of the RFID market will be double of what it is now. US are the biggest user of RFID. The US market is double the size of the EU market. UK, Germany and France are […]

Gen2 chips to hit the Market next Month

Texas Instrument will start the production of its Gen 2 chips from next month. This step will enable the chips to be widely available. Texas instrument has already started sending chips to a few of its customers. Since last year the company has been selling UHF EPC Gen2 inlay. These chips are mounted on antennas […]

Guide for RFID Adoption Launched in Australia

Senator Helen Coonan, the Australian Minister for the Department of Information Technology, Communications and the Arts, launched a guide to RFID adoption for Australian business at the GSI Impetus conference this week. Presently there are 1,500 companies in Australia. A very small percentage of these companies are utilizing a standard for guidance. Coonan […]