Can a tag be embedded in trade licenses, municipality documents, land registrations and so forth, with the contents of those documents stored on the tag's microchip? —Name withheld ——— RFID can be embedded in documents to identify and authenticate them, but you can...
Is it possible for radio frequency identification tags to be used to track a device, from a cell phone to a television, so that it can be located if stolen? — Kori ——— Kori, Radio frequency identification is a short-range technology. Passive high-frequency (HF) tags...
The potential gains lie not in radio frequency identification itself, but in how you use the technology.
Even when you automate tasks and use RFID to identify an object involved in that task, things can still go wrong.
And are there any relatively cheap RFID solutions that can assess the real-time proximity of players on a sports field? —Name withheld ——— The answers to your question, respectively, are yes and no. Yes, RFID can measure distance. There is an English soccer club—I'm...
In a recent earnings call, the company’s Dean Scarborough said shipments of RFID transponders doubled in 2010.
Does either the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or EPCglobal specify that a particular type of RFID technology be used within hospital settings? —Paul ——— Dear Paul, There is no FDA requirement for the use of high-frequency (HF) or ultrahigh-frequency (UHF)...
Are there any nations that have utilized the technology for this particular application? —Name withheld ——— A number of countries have done this, and the United States and Canada were among the first. In the 1990s, most North American railway tracks were equipped with...
Please outline some of the offerings currently on the market. —Name withheld ——— Researchers at the Auto-ID Labs have created an open-source middleware platform known as Fosstrak that performs some filtering and allows users to store data in an EPC Information Service...
Would it be possible, when continuously interrogating a group of ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) tags within a given space, to know if a particular tag was missing? —Name withheld ——— If you have 50 tagged objects on a shelf, and a shelf reader is constantly reading all of...
In addition, has the technology been utilized for analyzing the use of buildings? —Name withheld ——— To answer this question, I turned to Paul Prince, RFID Journal's executive editor, who assigns all of our news stories. Paul points out that many real-time location...
Please explain how this can be accomplished. —Name withheld ——— It depends on the type of tag being used. Passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID transponders that employ the EPC Gen 2 air-interface protocol are required to have a kill command, enabling a user to...