RFID

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• RFID Research Reports
  
  
• RFID World ; Conferences, exhibitions, demonstrations
  
  
• A Low-Cost, Low-Power Frequency Synthesizer for Mobile RFID white paper
  
  
• Nice tutorial on RFID : How RFID Works
  
  
• Online forum dedicated to RFID RFIDtalk.com
  
  
• articles related to RFID
  
  
• RFID articles 2
  
  
• RFID Gazette
  
  
• Forums, links, downloads, articles, all focused on RFID
  
  
• RFID Update
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• RFID news and information
  
  
• RFID weblog RFID articles
  
  
• RFID white papers
  
  
• RFID.org
  
  
• free download documents on RFID, see power point presentation
  
  
• RFID Centre Good informational on RFID
  
  
• RFID Solutions Online
  
  Overview of RFID
  
  An RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) tag consists of a small silicon microchip attached to an antenna. The chip itself can be as small as half a millimeter square – roughly the size of a tiny seed. Some RFID tags are thin enough to be embedded in paper. An RFID tag is capable of transmitting a unique serial number a distance of up several meters in response to a query from a reading device. Inexpensive RFID tags are passive, meaning that they lack batteries and obtain their power from the query signal of a reading device itself.
  
  RFID tags are already quite common in everyday life. Examples include proximity cards used as replacements for metal door keys, Speedpass™, E-Z Pass™ and FasTrak™ automated toll payment devices. Tens of millions of pets around the world have surgically embedded RFID tags that make it easy to identify them should they lose their collars.
  
  Dropping cost is bringing RFID to the fore. In the near future, some RFID tags may cost as little as $0.05-0.10 in large quantities. We are rapidly approaching a critical turning point at which inexpensive RFID tags are viable as a cost-saving replacement for barcodes, of which some 5 billion are scanned around the world every day. EPCGlobal Inc. is perhaps the most important organization leading the standardization of RFID. Not surprisingly, it is a joint venture of the UCC and EAN, the entities that oversee barcode use in the U.S. and Europe.
  
  RFID tags have two distinct advantages over traditional, printed barcodes:
  
  **An RFID tag carries a unique identifier, whereas a barcode merely indicates an object type. For example, a barcode printed on a box might state that the box contains breakfast cereal, and also indicate the manufacturer. An RFID tag would effectively carry a serial number distinguishing that box of cereal from every other one in the world. This permits very fine-grained and accurate control over product distribution. With a full history for every item, businesses can streamline their manufacturing and distribution processes in unprecedented ways.
  
  An RFID tag may be read by radio contact, without the need for line-of-sight contact. In many cases, it can even be read through objects. A barcode scanner must make close-range optical contact to read a barcode effectively. In contrast, an RFID tag may be read without any real constraint on physical orientation. While an item in a supermarket must be passed over a scanner with its barcode expressly exposed, an RFID tag may be scanned just by being placed in the vicinity of a reader. Indeed, a reader is typically capable of scanning hundreds of RFID tags simultaneously. Again, this means extra efficiency and perhaps accuracy in the handling of items.
  
  
  
  RFID papers free download
  
  
  
• RFID EXPLAINED, A BASIC OVERVIEW, by Baird U.S. Equity Research, 2004 FEBRUARY.
  
  
• Brief Comparison of Different Rectifier Structures for RFID Transponders, Zhu Zheng, University of Adelaide, Auto-ID Labs Research Workshop, 2004.
  
  
• RFID Analog Front End Design Tutorial (version 0.0), Zheng ZhuAuto-ID lab, University of Adelaide.
  
  
• Low-Cost Electromagnetic Tagging: Design and Implementation, Richard Ribon Fletcher PhD thesis, MIT 2002.
  
  
• ID Modulation: Embedding Sensor Data in an RFID Timeseries, Joshua R. Smith e.a. 7th Information Hiding Workshop, Barcalona 2005.
  
  
• An Ultra-Small Double-Surface Electrode RFID Chip, Mitsuo, Special Section on Papers Selected from AP-ASIC 2004 Papers.
  
  
• RFID in Wireless Sensor Network, Christer Englund, Henrik Wallin, Communication Systems Group, CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Goteborg, Sweden, April 2004 2004.
  
  
• Designing the Virtual Battery, Agilent Application Note 1088.
  
  
• Designing Detectors for RF/ID Tags, Agilent Application Note 1089.
  
  
• Schottky Diode Voltage Doubler, Application Note 956-4.
  
  
• Antennas for RFID tags, Smail Tedjini; Tan-Phu Vuong and Vincent Beroulle, LCIS/INPG- ESISAR, Valence, FRANCE, Joint sOc-EUSAI conference Grenoble, october 2005.
  
  
• Fundamental Operating Principles, Klaus FinkenzellerChapter 3, RFID-Handbook, 2nd edition, Wiley & Sons LTD 2003.
  
  
• Wireless, remotely powered telemetry in 0.25um CMOS, Fatih Kocer, Paul M. Walsh, and Michael P. Flynn, Wireless Integrated Microsystems Engineering Research Center (WIMS-ERC), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
  
  
• WIRELESS BATTERY CHARGING SYSTEM USING RADIO FREQUENCY ENERGY HARVESTING, Daniel W. Harrist MSc. Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2001.
  
  
• HF Antenna Design Notes Technical Application Report, Allan Goulbourne, Texas Instruments, 11-08-26-003 Sept 2003, Radio Frequency Identification Systemsystems.
  
  
• RFID TUTORIAL: A Radio-Oriented Introduction to RFID—Protocols, Tags and Applications, Daniel M. Dobkin, Enigmatics, and Titus Wandinger, WJ Communications, High Frequency Electronics, August 2005.
  
  
• RFID Security, Prof. Dr. Heiko Knospe and Prof. Dr. Hartmut Pohl, University of Applied Sciences Cologne, Faculty of Information, Media and ElectricalKoeln, Germany.
  
  
• RFID Solutions for Functional Environment, presentation slides, Heikki Seppä, VTT Information Technology 2004.
  
  
• Part 1: Understanding the EPC Gen 2 Protocol, , journal Mark Roberti. The second-generation UHF Electronic Product Code standard offers significant improvements over Gen 1. In part 1 of this special report, we explain the new features in the air-interface protocol, RFID Journal Special Report, Mar. 28, 2005
  
  RFID Products
  
  
• Alien Technology Readers, tags
• Matrics RFID Readers, tags.
• Texas Instruments
• Avery Dennison
• Intermec RFID tags, readers, and a developer kits.
• LXE RFID readers
• Symbol RFID readers.
• Zebra Printers capable of encoding RFID chips embedded in "smart labels" and printing text, graphics, and bar codes on the label in a single process.
• Sato Printers capable of encoding RFID labels.
• Active Wave RFID tags, readers, programmers, and software.
• Psion Teklogix Readers
• TEK Industries RFID readers and programmers.
• Quelis Id Systems Tags
• RF Code Tags, readers, software, and evaluation kits.
• Excort Memory Systems RFID systems
• CopyTag RFID readers
• SkyeTek Readers, writers, smartlabels, and tags.
• RFind Real-time locating system
• IDSystems
  
  Some more links
  
• RFID Journal If you have a serious interest in RFID, I suggest checking out the RFID Journal. The site has a great FAQ page, RFID glossary, and detailed vendor listing. Some of the content (articles, case studies) requires paid subscription.
  
  
• Uniform Code Council Establishes and promotes multi-industry standards for product identification and related electronic communication. Info on bar code symbologies, compliance labeling, EPC, XML.
  
  
• News and reports of interest to users of RFID
  
  
• RFID News Solutions
  A bi-monthly publication for supply chain professionals in most major industries and vertical markets who are responsible for designing, purchasing and implementing RFID technologies and solutions.
  
  
• RFID Operations
  A monthly magazine that gives you late-breaking news and an insiders' view of the exploding RFID industry. You will also learn how this technology is being implemented worldwide.
  
  
• RFID Tag information
  
  
• RFID: The Real and Integrated Story from Intel
  
  
• RFID Times Blog
  A radio frequency ID blog with original content and links to over 400 articles spanning every RFID topic in the world, including RFID tags, readers, integration, middleware, and more.
  
  
• RFID Update
  RFID industry daily newsletter.
  
  
• RFID White Paper
  RFID, Learn about the history and technology behind radio frequency identification in this white paper,
  
  
• Spychips
  a project of CASPIAN,
  
  
• Surpriv: RFID Surveillance and Privacy
  Investigation of radio-frequency identification, surveillance and privacy issues.
  
  
• RFID Journal
  RFID Journal is the only independent media company devoted solely to radio frequency identification and its many business applications. Our mission: to help companies use RFID technology to improve the way they do business.
  
  
• Association for Automatic Identity and Mobility (AIM)
  global trade association comprising providers of components, networks, systems
  
  
• Information Security: Radio Frequency Identification Technology in the Federal Government
  
  
• Integrating the Supply Chain with RFID: A Technical and Business Analysis
  This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the technical and business implications of adopting Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in organizational settings.
  
  
• RFID Definition from Wikipedia
  
  
• RFID Alien Reader
  
  
  
• RFID Blog RFIDbuzz.com
  
  
• RFID Exchange
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  Global source for objective advice on RFID Technology, covering passive and active tags and readers, Savant and application software, and provides free advice, information on implementation issues and solutions.
  
  
• RFID news weblog RFID Gazette
  
  
• RFID in Libraries
  Technological applications and privacy implications of Radio Frequency Identification Tags in libraries