White Papers
Each month, RFID Journal receives numerous white paper submissions from outside experts. We read each paper carefully and select the most informative articles. Please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of facts or claims in these papers.
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most recent white papers
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Physical Access Card Systems: Yesterday and Today
Published October 2011This white paper, written by security analyst Dave Kearns, is designed to assist organizations in recognizing the limitations of their legacy proximity card-based building-access systems, and offers a secure, standards-based approach to modernizing building security.
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License to Kill: RFID and Privacy
Published October 2011Researchers have found that Apple's smartphones and tablets record and store customers' movements for up to a year. With that in mind, Nordic ID discusses RFID's implications for privacy, in terms of "sniffing," eavesdropping and security. (3 pages)
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Art of Comparing RFID Reader Power Outputs
Published October 2011Nordic ID's Toni Heijari explains what different RFID readers' radiating power figures mean, how to compare figures for various formats and how each can be used. (4 pages)
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Essential Now and in the Future: RFID in the Automotive Industry
Published September 2011In the automotive industry's production environment, radio frequency identification is a highly versatile technology for identification purposes. The introduction of RFID into a wide range of supply chain applications enables production and logistics operations to grow closer together technologically. In this document, Siemens AG discusses how this can give rise to new, trendsetting concepts along the automotive value chain. (3 pages)
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A Breakthrough in RFID Industrial Parking Management
Published September 2011Vizbee's Yedidia Blonder explains his company's Industrial Parking Management System (VIPMS), which combines passive RFID tags and intelligent handheld readers to improve car-retrieval times. The solution utilizes embedded software to synchronize in real time with a central server, thereby diminishing the potential for human error. (2 pages)
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High-Memory RFID for Maintenance Use: Technology Options, Benefits and Answers
Published September 2011Tego briefly discusses radio frequency identification, Spec 2000, AS5678 and the benefits that RFID offers for the purpose of marking parts. (4 pages)
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6 Major Problems With Wi-Fi RTLS That Cannot Be Ignored
Published September 2011Although real-time location system (RTLS) technology can be piggybacked onto an organization's existing Wi-Fi infrastructure, Wi-Fi's capabilities are inadequate for use in hospital asset- and patient-tracking applications. TeleTracking Technologies explains why it believes that a Wi-Fi-based RTLS is less accurate—and, ultimately, more expensive—than an installation designed specifically for monitoring the locations and status of equipment and individuals.
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9 Key Points of Differentiation: Comparing Intelleflex XC3 Technology and Active RFID
Published September 2011The approval of the ISO/IEC 18000-6:2010 standard defined a new category of RFID technology—battery-assisted passive (BAP)—that provides improved visibility and enables additional applications, combining features of both passive and active RFID. In this document, Intelleflex highlights the benefits and points of differentiation that this new technology provides compared with other active RFID technologies. (4 pages)
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RTLS-based Ubiquitous Health-Care Management System Design and Implementation
Published August 2011The U.S. health-care system, one of the most complex systems worldwide, has suffered from ineffective logistics management, patient safety concerns and escalating costs. Real-time location systems (RTLS) based on ubiquitous computing are a new application that will increase the visibility and operational efficiency of clinical and administrative workflow in the health-care setting. In this paper, Xiaoyu Ma, Kai Yang and Kimberly Brayley propose a hybrid framework to implement RTLS technology in hospitals, according to the theory of information system design theory, lean management and task-technology fit. (25 pages)
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Understanding the Characteristics of the RFID Spectrum: Choosing the Right RF Technology to Automate Your Business
Published July 2011In this tech brief, Motorola explains how a company can choose the proper RFID technology for its particular identification, location, tracking and payment applications—such as managing inventory in a retail store or warehouse, tracking work-in-process operations at a manufacturing plant, monitoring medical equipment at a hospital, or keeping tabs on Near Field Communication cards for payment transactions. This document examines the various types of RFID technologies, such as low-frequency (LF), high-frequency (HF) and ultrahigh-frequency (UHF), that can help enterprise organizations automatically identify, locate, track and process their critical business products, assets and transactions. (6 pages)
