RFID Technologies and Applications
Kaspar C, Melski A, Lietke B, Boslau M, Hagenhoff S (2009)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Other publication type
Subtype: other
Publication year: 2009
Publisher: IGI Global Publishing
Edited Volumes: Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking
City/Town: Hershey, PA
Pages Range: 1232-1239
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch167
Abstract
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a radio-supported
identification technology that typically operates
by saving a serial number on a radio transponder
that contains a microchip for data storage. Via radio
waves, the coded information is communicated to
a reading device (Jones et al., 2005). RFID does
not represent a new development; it was devised
by the American military in the 1940s. Since the
technology’s clearance for civil use in 1977, RFID
has been successfully used for the identification of
productive livestock, for electronic immobilizer systems
in vehicles, or for the surveillance of building
entrances (Srivastava, 2005). Due to decreasing unit
costs (especially for passive transponders), RFID
technologies now seem increasingly applicable for
the labeling of goods and semi-finished products.
By this, manual or semi-automatic data entry, for
instance through the use of barcodes, can be avoided.
This closes the technical gap between the real world
(characterized by the lack of distribution transparency
of its objects) and the digital world (characterized by
logically and physically unambiguous and therefore
distribution-transparent objects). In addition, RFID
facilitates fully automated simultaneous recognition
of more than one transponder without direct line of
sight between reader and transponders.
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APA:
Kaspar, C., Melski, A., Lietke, B., Boslau, M., & Hagenhoff, S. (2009). RFID Technologies and Applications. In Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Hershey, PA: IGI Global Publishing.
MLA:
Kaspar, Christian, et al. "RFID Technologies and Applications." Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking Hershey, PA: IGI Global Publishing, 2009.
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