And if so, how might this be accomplished? —Name withheld ——— Radio frequency identification is increasingly being utilized to identify vehicles. In Bermuda, for example, most of the island nation's cars and trucks currently have RFID-enabled registration stickers...
I would like to tag small objects, such as pens, pen drives, books, certain papers and so forth. Can you provide information about whether I can enter the name of a particular item on both a tag and a reader? If that is possible, to what level can I store data, and...
Is there a limit to the number of tags that can be interrogated simultaneously? —Name withheld ——— The answer depends on the type of radio frequency identification system, and on what you mean by "at one time." Let me take the second part of the question first....
Has your company conducted any research regarding hardware and software sales for 2011 in that country? —Name withheld ——— RFID Journal does not carry out market research regarding sales of tags, readers and software. ABI Research, Frost & Sullivan and Venture...
How is the technology being deployed in such settings? — Hosseini (Yazd, Iran) ——— Dear Hosseini, Many museums employ radio frequency identification technologies, and such use falls into several categories. One application involves utilizing RFID to make exhibits more...
At RFID Journal LIVE! Europe 2011, I had the opportunity to conduct video interviews with three interesting companies.
Has that country allocated any of the EM spectrum toward the technology? —Name withheld ——— To my knowledge, Nigeria has not allocated a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) for radio frequency identification. Companies looking to employ RFID systems within...
If, for example, a company has a running counter for every tag that it produces, that would be valuable information. —Name withheld ——— I assume that you are referring to the tag ID (TID) sometimes written to an RFID chip during manufacture. To my knowledge—and...
What type of system could be used to recognize objects moving inside or outside of a motor vehicle? —Name withheld ——— Detecting an RFID tag as it moved through a car's doorway would be difficult. One issue is that if a person were to cover the tag with his or her...
If I wanted to order protection sleeves, could you provide me with a phone number for placing an order? And even with the use of protection sleeves, isn't there still a chance that my card could be scanned by someone else when I took it out to make a purchase? —Tim...
Apparel retailers are deploying RFID for inventory accuracy, product location and loss prevention.
How does RFID Journal define that term? —Name withheld ——— Our definition is this: any technology that enables a user to identify unique items, individuals or locations using radio waves. There are passive systems in which a transponder has no power source, as well as...