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- Evaluating RFID Tag Performance
- The RFID Alliance Lab was launched at the University of Kansas in 2004 to provide testing and benchmarking of RFID and EPC products. This webcast discusses the results of the Lab's tests and what they mean for end users. Through this webcast one can learn differences in performance characteristics of...
- Tags: Tagging, RFID Journal, RFID Tag, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- Webcasts
- RFID Tags: Working and Worthwhile!
- In the retail world, everyone is talking about EPC Electronic Product Code tags and RFID Radio Frequency IDentification technology as the way of the future to identify products and to improve receiving accuracy. The idea is that each product can be accounted for and put on sale as quickly as...
- Tags: RFID Tag, Idea, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers
- New Processes Driving Down Costs of RFID Tags
- There's been a lot of talk recently about the momentum behind Radio-Frequency IDentification RFID tags utilizing Auto-ID technology. RFID has been around for more than a decade and has a history of unrealized potential. But the product line manager for the Sun Auto-ID Infrastructure Solution (in the newly formed Sun...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., RFID Tag, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers
- IDTechEx Case Study: Las Vegas McCarran International Airport, Baggage, USA
- McCarran International Airport in Nevada, USA brokered a five-year contract with Matrics to supply RFID tags for use in tracking passenger luggage, as part of the airport's commitment to improving customer safety and satisfaction. FKI Logistex will provide the system architecture and integration under a separate agreement. By law, airlines...
- Tags: Aircraft, RFID Tag, RFID, Aerospace & Defense, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Manufacturing
- Case studies
- Mass Data Read/Write Technology for UHF?Band RFID Tags
- Passive Radio Frequency Identification RFID tags operating in the 860 to 960 MHz Ultra-High Frequency UHF band have a wider communication area than RFID tags operating in other frequency bands such as 13.56 MHz or 2.45 GHz. It is expected that UHF-band RFID tags will be used widely in physical...
- Tags: RFID Tag, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2007-10-01
- RFID Tag Data Security Infrastructure: A Common Ground Approach for Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Safety
- For the pharmaceutical industry to create a secure supply chain using RFID technology at the item-level, it needs a broader and more flexible approach - one that encompasses all stakeholder requirements and provides a range of implementation options. The industry is currently working toward the development of a new Item-Level...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Industry, Pharmaceutical Company, Texas Instruments Inc., Requirement, RFID Tag, Tag Data Security Infrastructure, Supply Chain Management (SCM), RFID, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Management
- White papers 2006-11-01
- PCB: Physically Changeable Bit for Preserving Privacy in Low-End RFID Tags
- In this white paper, a simple approach called "PCB" is proposed for privacy-protection in low-end RFID tags. PCB stands for "Physically Changeable Bit", which adds one bit to tags that can be and only be changed via physical contact. This PCB bit can be turned on or off repeatedly, and...
- Tags: Privacy, RFID Tag, PCB, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2006-05-18
- Making Tuple Spaces Physical With RFID Tags
- This paper describes the design and implementation of a tuple-based distributed memory realized with the use of RFID technology. The key idea - rooted in a more general scenario of pervasive and mobile computing - is that the everyday environments will be soon pervaded by RFID-tagged objects. By accessing in...
- Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, RFID Tag, Application Example, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2006-04-23
- RFID tags and readers are everywhere, perhaps you should know how it works
- RFID technologies offer practical benefits to almost anyone who needs to keep track of physical assets. This chapter excerpt from RFID Essentials explains the basic components of an RFID system. RFID is quickly becoming a ubiquitous technology. With is widespread adoption in manufacturing, retailing, and security systems,...
- Tags: RFID Tag, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- Book chapters 2006-03-08
- Enhancing Security of EPCglobal Gen-2 RFID Tag Against Traceability and Cloning
- This paper presents a synchronization-based communication protocol for RFID devices and focuses on the EPCGlobal Class-1 Gen-2 RFID tag which supports only simple cryptographic primitives like Pseudo-Random Number Generator PRNG and Cyclic Redundancy Code CRC. This protocol is secure in a sense that it prevents the cloned tags and malicious...
- Tags: EPCGlobal Inc., RFID Tag, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2006-01-17
- Noisy Tags: A Pretty Good Key Exchange Protocol for RFID Tags
- This paper proposes a protocol that can be used between an RFID tag and a reader to exchange a secret without performing any expensive computation. Noisy tags are owned by the reader's manager and set out within the reader's field. They are regular RFID tags that generate noise on the...
- Tags: RFID Tag, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2006-01-17
- White Paper on the Dense Reader Problem in Europe
- Passive RFID Systems are those in which the tags have no built-in power source but instead rely on the incident energy from a reader to energise them. A typical RFID tag is about the size of an ISO card credit card size though there are other form factors. Tags may...
- Tags: Supply Chain, SCM, RFID Tag, Supply Chain Management (SCM), RFID, Enterprise Software, Software, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2006-01-09
- Sun RFID Industry Solution for Mandate Compliance: Fast Track RFID Tag and Ship Implementation
- Radio Frequency IDentification RFID mandates issued by organizations such as WalMart, the U.S. Department of Defense DoD, Target, and others are driving the supplier community to incorporate RFID into the supply chain. These mandates began in late 2004, and the number has been increasing since then. The rationale for RFID...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Sun Microsystems Inc., Compliance, Industry, RFID Tag, RFID, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-01-01
- YA-TRAP: Yet Another Trivial RFID Authentication Protocol
- Security and privacy in RFID systems is an important and active research area. A number of challenges arise due to the extremely limited computational, storage and communication abilities of a typical RFID tag. This paper describes a simple technique for inexpensive untraceable identification of RFID tags. The proposed protocol (called...
- Tags: Irvine, University Of California, RFID Tag, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2005-12-17
- A Hybrid Randomized Protocol for RFID Tag Identification
- RFID is a technology for tracking objects that is expected to be widely adopted in very near future. A reader device sends probes to a set of RFID tags, which then respond to the request. A tag is recognized only when it is the only one to respond to the...
- Tags: Algorithm, University Of Ottawa, RFID Tag, Reader Device, RFID, Engineering, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2005-11-23
- Untraceable RFID Tags Via Insubvertible Encryption
- This paper introduces a new cryptographic primitive, called insubvertible encryption that produces ciphertexts which can be randomized without the need of any key material. Unlike plain universal re-encryption schemes, insubvertible encryption prevents against adversarial exploitation of hidden channels, by including certificates proving that the ciphertext can only be decrypted by...
- Tags: Encryption, RFID Tag, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2005-11-07
- Vibration Powered Battery-Assisted Passive RFID Tag
- Real-time supply chain management, theft prevention, and environmental monitoring motivate the need for RFID systems. Battery-assisted RFID tags increase read range and reliability; however, batteries offer only a finite lifetime solution. Hence, an experiment in powering a battery-assisted passive RFID tag using ambient vibration energy was conducted. A piezoelectric power...
- Tags: Battery, University Of California, RFID Tag, RFID, Engineering, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2005-09-14
- Disabling RFID Tags With Visible Confirmation: Clipped Tags Are Silenced
- Existing solutions to protect consumer privacy in RFID either put the burden on the consumer or suffer from the very limited capabilities of today's RFID tags. This paper proposes the use of physical RFID tag structures that permit a consumer to disable a tag by mechanically altering the tag in...
- Tags: RFID Tag, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2005-08-31
- Power Reflection Coefficient Analysis for Complex Impedances in RFID Tag Design
- Kurokawa's method of calculating the power reflection coefficient from the Smith chart in the situation when one complex impedance is directly connected to another is applied to passive RFID tag design, where power reflection is important, as it determines the tag characteristics. The performance analysis of a specific RFID tag...
- Tags: IEEE, Analysis, RFID Tag, Kurokawa, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2005-08-30
- AirTransNote: Augmented Classrooms With Digital Pen Devices and RFID Tags
- AirTransNote augments activities in classrooms by sharing student notes written on regular paper using wireless communications. AirTransNote uses digital pens to free students from the need to use PCs for note taking. To improve the effectiveness of the system, the authors' have used a portable remote controller with an RFID...
- Tags: Teacher, Lecture, RFID Tag, AirTransNote, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2005-08-15
