I am looking for an active tag with a maximum weight of 10 grams (0.35 ounce) to fit on small flying birds. Do you know of a product that would meet that requirement? —Name withheld ——— Guard RFID offers the 8-gram (0.28-ounce) AT-1BLF Article Tag that might be...
Can such tags be thin? —Name withheld ——— RFID transponders designed to work on or near metal usually have a spacer cushion preventing a tag from being detuned. When you touch a metal hanger to the antenna of a transistor radio, the antenna is detuned and you hear a...
The U.S. Department of Defense's Directive 8100.02 prohibits the use of wireless devices within its classified information-processing facilities. Any input would be appreciated. —Name withheld ——— I reached out to several people within the U.S. Department of Defense,...
The Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association will become part of the bar-code and RFID standards body.
The Auto-ID Labs at MIT is sponsoring a contest to create a prototype for a retail application leveraging big data to improve the retail demand chain.
What are the read and write ranges of such cards—and how can those ranges be increased? —Name withheld ——— Contactless smart cards are plastic cards (usually the size of a credit card) with an embedded radio frequency identification transponder. The RFID microchip can...
We have a customer that needs to count 750,000 fish within a tank. The diameter of each fish is about 50 millimeters (2 inches). The customer is tagging the fish with low-frequency (LF) glass tags. Can we track the 750,000 fish tags using some type of reader? Are...
RFID Journal's article, "RFID Gets Visual," published in June of this year, mentioned that "an event that issues RFID ID badges to attendees could feature message boards that display a personalized message when a particular individual approaches." Is this technology...
I would like to cover an area like a chessboard, with each antenna reading what is within a particular square. Due to the speed required, I was looking at eight readers with eight multiplexed antennas. What devices, such as an analog switch, should I consider using...
The TV series popularizes a potential consumer application of radio frequency identification technology.
Is this use of the technology possible? —Name withheld ——— No. Smartphones might have a Near Field Communication (NFC) reader built in, but NFC readers are designed to provide a read range of only a few inches. Even if an interrogator were to utilize a passive...
For example, how useful is CYCLOPS, which can "see" if a worker is wearing his or her wristband appropriately? —Lisa ——— Lisa, I am unaware of any products that employ radio frequency identification to monitor the use of electrostatic discharge (ESD) control products....