Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Radio-frequency identification

Index Radio-frequency identification

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. [1]

210 relations: Adaptive traffic control, ALOHAnet, Animal identification, Ant, Antenna (radio), Ars Technica, AS5678, Asset tracking, ASTM International, Authentication, Auto-ID Labs, Automatic identification and data capture, Backscatter, Baja Beach Club, Balise, Barcelona, Barcode, Basic access control, Berlin, Bicycle locker, Bin bug, Biocompatibility, Biometric passport, Bit, Bluetooth low energy beacon, Boarding pass, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Boycott, Broadcasting, Buffer overflow, Cargo, Casino token, Challenge–response authentication, Chaos Communication Congress, Chaos Computer Club, Charles Walton (inventor), Chipless RFID, Cleckheaton, Clipped tag, CompTIA, Conrad Chase, Consumer privacy, Contactless payment, Conveyor belt, Covert listening device, Cryptography, Cybernetics, DASH7, Deister Electronics, Demodulation, ..., Denial-of-service attack, Diaphragm (acoustics), Digital signature, Digitalcourage, Doncaster, E-ZPass, Egg cell, Electromagnetic field, Electronic article surveillance, Electronic Product Code, Electronic toll collection, Enduro, England, EPCglobal, ETSI, European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations, European Union, Exploratorium, Faraday cage, FDA warning letter, Federal Trade Commission, Food and Drug Administration, Free software movement, Frequency allocation, Fuzzy mathematics, General practitioner, General Services Administration, Germany, GS1, GS1 US, Hare and Hound (motorcycle race), High frequency, IBM, Identification friend or foe, Identity document, In vitro fertilisation, Integrated circuit, Intelligent transportation system, Interference (communication), Intermec, International Air Transport Association, International Article Number, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Electrotechnical Commission, International Organization for Standardization, Internet of things, ISM band, ISO 14223, ISO/IEC 14443, ISO/IEC 15693, ISO/IEC 18000, ISO/IEC 18000-3, ISO/IEC 20248, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 Automatic identification and data capture techniques, Item-level tagging, Katherine Albrecht, Kevin Warwick, Léon Theremin, Liz McIntyre (writer), London, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Low frequency, Loyalty program, Machine-readable passport, Magnetic stripe card, Malaysia, Mario Cardullo, Mark Gasson, Mass surveillance, Microchip implant (animal), Microchip implant (human), Microwave, Middleware, MIFARE, Minyanville, Modulation, Monochrom, National Football League, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Natural gas, Near and far field, Near-field communication, New York City, Object Naming Service, Orienteering, Osaka, Panopticon, Paul Moskowitz, Pay as you throw, Personal identification number, Pipeline transport, Privacy by design, Proximity card, Public-key cryptography, Quarterback, Radio frequency, Radio wave, Radio-frequency identification in schools, Rail transport, Read-only memory, Real-time locating system, Resonant inductive coupling, Resonator, RFID on metal, RFID skimming, RFID testing, Richard Stallman, Rolling code, Rome, Rotterdam, RSA blocker tag, San Francisco, Security, Self-checkout, Sensor, Sewerage, Silicon on insulator, Singulation, Ski lift, Ski resort, Smart card, Smart label, Smartdust, Soviet Union, Speedpass, Spermatozoon, Super high frequency, Supply chain, Supply chain management, Surveillance, Symmetric-key algorithm, Technical standard, TecTile, Telemetry, Terabyte, The Thing (listening device), Tracking system, Transparent Prototype, Transponder, Transponder (aeronautics), Transponder timing, Ultra high frequency, United States, United States Department of Agriculture, United States Department of Defense, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, United States passport, Universal Product Code, University of Bristol, URL, Vatican Library, Walmart, Whitcliffe Mount School, Wired (magazine), Wireless identification and sensing platform, Wisconsin, World Summit on the Information Society, World War II, Zebra Technologies, Zipcar. Expand index (160 more) »

Adaptive traffic control

Adaptive traffic control system (ATCS) is a traffic management strategy in which traffic signal timing changes, or adapts, based on actual traffic demand.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Adaptive traffic control · See more »

ALOHAnet

ALOHAnet, also known as the ALOHA System, or simply ALOHA, was a pioneering computer networking system developed at the University of Hawaii.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and ALOHAnet · See more »

Animal identification

Animal identification using a means of marking is a process done to identify and track specific animals.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Animal identification · See more »

Ant

Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Ant · See more »

Antenna (radio)

In radio, an antenna is the interface between radio waves propagating through space and electric currents moving in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Antenna (radio) · See more »

Ars Technica

Ars Technica (a Latin-derived term that the site translates as the "art of technology") is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Ars Technica · See more »

AS5678

AS5678 is a requirements specification created by SAE International for the production and test of passive only Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags for the Aerospace industry.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and AS5678 · See more »

Asset tracking

Asset tracking refers to the method of tracking physical assets, either by scanning barcode labels attached to the assets or by using tags using GPS, BLE or RFID which broadcast their location.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Asset tracking · See more »

ASTM International

ASTM International is an international standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and ASTM International · See more »

Authentication

Authentication (from authentikos, "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης authentes, "author") is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a single piece of data claimed true by an entity.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Authentication · See more »

Auto-ID Labs

The Auto-ID Labs network is a research group in the field of networked radio-frequency identification (RFID) and emerging sensing technologies.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Auto-ID Labs · See more »

Automatic identification and data capture

Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) refers to the methods of automatically identifying objects, collecting data about them, and entering them directly into computer systems, without human involvement.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Automatic identification and data capture · See more »

Backscatter

In physics, backscatter (or backscattering) is the reflection of waves, particles, or signals back to the direction from which they came.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Backscatter · See more »

Baja Beach Club

The Baja Beach Club was an exclusive nightclub in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Baja Beach Club · See more »

Balise

A balise is an electronic beacon or transponder placed between the rails of a railway as part of an automatic train protection (ATP) system.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Balise · See more »

Barcelona

Barcelona is a city in Spain.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Barcelona · See more »

Barcode

A barcode (also bar code) is an optical, machine-readable, representation of data; the data usually describes something about the object that carries the barcode.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Barcode · See more »

Basic access control

Basic access control (BAC) is a mechanism specified to ensure only authorized parties can wirelessly read personal information from passports with an RFID chip.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Basic access control · See more »

Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Berlin · See more »

Bicycle locker

A bicycle locker or bike box is a locker or box in which up to 2 bicycles can be placed and locked in.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Bicycle locker · See more »

Bin bug

The term "bin bug" was coined in August 2006 by the British media to refer to the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips by some local councils to monitor the amount of domestic waste created by each household.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Bin bug · See more »

Biocompatibility

Biocompatibility is related to the behavior of biomaterials in various contexts.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Biocompatibility · See more »

Biometric passport

A biometric passport (also known as an e-passport, ePassport or a digital passport) is a traditional passport that has an embedded electronic microprocessor chip which contains biometric information that can be used to authenticate the identity of the passport holder.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Biometric passport · See more »

Bit

The bit (a portmanteau of binary digit) is a basic unit of information used in computing and digital communications.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Bit · See more »

Bluetooth low energy beacon

Bluetooth beacons are hardware transmitters - a class of Bluetooth low energy (LE) devices that broadcast their identifier to nearby portable electronic devices.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Bluetooth low energy beacon · See more »

Boarding pass

A boarding pass is a document provided by an airline during check-in, giving a passenger permission to enter the restricted area of an airport and to board the airplane for a particular flight.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Boarding pass · See more »

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy and fatal neurodegenerative disease in cattle that may be passed to humans who have eaten infected flesh.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Bovine spongiform encephalopathy · See more »

Boycott

A boycott is an act of voluntary and intentional abstention from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Boycott · See more »

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Broadcasting · See more »

Buffer overflow

In information security and programming, a buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer, overruns the buffer's boundary and overwrites adjacent memory locations.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Buffer overflow · See more »

Cargo

In economics, cargo or freight are goods or produce being conveyed – generally for commercial gain – by water, air or land.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Cargo · See more »

Casino token

Casino tokens (also known as casino or gaming chips, checks, or cheques) are small discs used in lieu of currency in casinos.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Casino token · See more »

Challenge–response authentication

In computer security, challenge–response authentication is a family of protocols in which one party presents a question ("challenge") and another party must provide a valid answer ("response") to be authenticated.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Challenge–response authentication · See more »

Chaos Communication Congress

The Chaos Communication Congress is an annual conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Chaos Communication Congress · See more »

Chaos Computer Club

The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is Europe's largest association of hackers with 7,700 registered members.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Chaos Computer Club · See more »

Charles Walton (inventor)

Charles Walton (1921 – November 6, 2011) is best known as the first patent holder for the RFID (radio frequency identification) device.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Charles Walton (inventor) · See more »

Chipless RFID

Chipless RFID tags are RFID tags that do not require a microchip in the transponder.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Chipless RFID · See more »

Cleckheaton

Cleckheaton is a town in the Metropolitan borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Cleckheaton · See more »

Clipped tag

The clipped tag is a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag designed to enhance consumer privacy.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Clipped tag · See more »

CompTIA

The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a non-profit trade association, issuing professional certifications for the information technology (IT) industry.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and CompTIA · See more »

Conrad Chase

Conrad Keven Chase (born June 9, 1965 in Portland, Maine) is an actor, singer/song-writer and public speaker.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Conrad Chase · See more »

Consumer privacy

Consumer privacy is a form of information privacy concerned with the legal and political issues arising from the interaction of the public's expectation of privacy with the collection and dissemination of data by businesses or merchants.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Consumer privacy · See more »

Contactless payment

Contactless payment systems are credit cards and debit cards, key fobs, smart cards, or other devices, including smartphones and other mobile devices, that use radio-frequency identification (RFID) or near field communication (NFC, e.g. Samsung Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Fitbit Pay, or any bank mobile application that support Contactless) for making secure payments.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Contactless payment · See more »

Conveyor belt

A conveyor belt is the carrying medium of a belt conveyor system (often shortened to belt conveyor).

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Conveyor belt · See more »

Covert listening device

A covert listening device, more commonly known as a bug or a wire, is usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Covert listening device · See more »

Cryptography

Cryptography or cryptology (from κρυπτός|translit.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Cryptography · See more »

Cybernetics

Cybernetics is a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory systems—their structures, constraints, and possibilities.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Cybernetics · See more »

DASH7

DASH7 Alliance Protocol (D7A) is an open source Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network protocol, which operates in the 433 MHz, 868 MHz and 915 MHz unlicensed ISM band/SRD band.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and DASH7 · See more »

Deister Electronics

Deister Electronic is the name generally used to refer to Deister Electronic GmbH Barsinghausen, Germany, and its subsidiaries in North America.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Deister Electronics · See more »

Demodulation

Demodulation is extracting the original information-bearing signal from a carrier wave.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Demodulation · See more »

Denial-of-service attack

In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Denial-of-service attack · See more »

Diaphragm (acoustics)

In the field of acoustics, a diaphragm is a transducer intended to inter-convert mechanical vibrations to sounds, or vice versa.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Diaphragm (acoustics) · See more »

Digital signature

A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for presenting the authenticity of digital messages or documents.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Digital signature · See more »

Digitalcourage

Digitalcourage – known until November 2012 as FoeBuD (Verein zur Förderung des öffentlichen bewegten und unbewegten Datenverkehrs) – is a German privacy and digital rights organisation.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Digitalcourage · See more »

Doncaster

Doncaster is a large market town in South Yorkshire, England.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Doncaster · See more »

E-ZPass

E‑ZPass is an electronic toll collection system used on most tolled roads, bridges, and tunnels in the Midwestern and Northeastern United States, as far south as North Carolina and as far west as Illinois.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and E-ZPass · See more »

Egg cell

The egg cell, or ovum (plural ova), is the female reproductive cell (gamete) in oogamous organisms.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Egg cell · See more »

Electromagnetic field

An electromagnetic field (also EMF or EM field) is a physical field produced by electrically charged objects.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Electromagnetic field · See more »

Electronic article surveillance

Electronic article surveillance is a technological method for preventing shoplifting from retail stores, pilferage of books from libraries or removal of properties from office buildings.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Electronic article surveillance · See more »

Electronic Product Code

The Electronic Product Code (EPC) is designed as a universal identifier that provides a unique identity for every physical object anywhere in the world, for all time.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Electronic Product Code · See more »

Electronic toll collection

Electronic toll collection (ETC) aims to eliminate the delay on toll roads, HOV lanes, toll bridges, and toll tunnels by collecting tolls without cash and without requiring cars to stop.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Electronic toll collection · See more »

Enduro

Enduro is a form of motorcycle sport run on extended cross-country, off-road courses.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Enduro · See more »

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and England · See more »

EPCglobal

EPCglobal is a joint venture between GS1 (formerly known as EAN International) and GS1 US (formerly the Uniform Code Council, Inc.). It is an organization set up to achieve worldwide adoption and standardization of Electronic Product Code (EPC) technology.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and EPCglobal · See more »

ETSI

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent, not-for-profit, standardization organization in the telecommunications industry (equipment makers and network operators) in Europe, headquartered in Sophia-Antipolis, France, with worldwide projection.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and ETSI · See more »

European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations

The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) was established on June 26, 1959, as a coordinating body for European state telecommunications and postal organizations.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations · See more »

European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and European Union · See more »

Exploratorium

The Exploratorium is a museum in San Francisco that allows visitors to explore the world through science, art, and human perception.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Exploratorium · See more »

Faraday cage

A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure used to block electromagnetic fields.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Faraday cage · See more »

FDA warning letter

An FDA warning letter is an official message from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to a manufacturer or other organization that has violated some rule in a federally regulated activity.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and FDA warning letter · See more »

Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Federal Trade Commission · See more »

Food and Drug Administration

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Food and Drug Administration · See more »

Free software movement

The free software movement (FSM) or free / open source software movement (FOSSM) or free / libre open source software (FLOSS) is a social movement with the goal of obtaining and guaranteeing certain freedoms for software users, namely the freedom to run the software, to study and change the software, and to redistribute copies with or without changes.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Free software movement · See more »

Frequency allocation

Frequency allocation (or spectrum allocation or spectrum management) is the allocation and regulation of the electromagnetic spectrum into radio frequency bands, which is normally done by governments in most countries.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Frequency allocation · See more »

Fuzzy mathematics

Fuzzy mathematics forms a branch of mathematics related to fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Fuzzy mathematics · See more »

General practitioner

In the medical profession, a general practitioner (GP) is a medical doctor who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to patients.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and General practitioner · See more »

General Services Administration

The General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency of the United States government, was established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and General Services Administration · See more »

Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Germany · See more »

GS1

GS1 is a not-for-profit organisation that develops and maintains global standards for business communication.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and GS1 · See more »

GS1 US

GS1 US is the GS1 Member Organization in the United States of America.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and GS1 US · See more »

Hare and Hound (motorcycle race)

In the United States, a Hare & Hound is a type of off-road racing event where the entrants compete on dirt bikes over a marked course of natural rugged terrain.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Hare and Hound (motorcycle race) · See more »

High frequency

High frequency (HF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) between 3 and 30 megahertz (MHz).

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and High frequency · See more »

IBM

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and IBM · See more »

Identification friend or foe

Identification, friend or foe (IFF) is an identification system designed for command and control.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Identification friend or foe · See more »

Identity document

An identity document (also called a piece of identification or ID, or colloquially as papers) is any document which may be used to prove a person's identity.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Identity document · See more »

In vitro fertilisation

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation where an egg is combined with sperm outside the body, in vitro ("in glass").

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and In vitro fertilisation · See more »

Integrated circuit

An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, normally silicon.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Integrated circuit · See more »

Intelligent transportation system

An intelligent transportation system (ITS) is an advanced application which, without embodying intelligence as such, aims to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management and enable users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and 'smarter' use of transport networks.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Intelligent transportation system · See more »

Interference (communication)

In communications and electronics, especially in telecommunications, interference is anything which modifies, or disrupts a signal as it travels along a channel between a source and a receiver.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Interference (communication) · See more »

Intermec

Intermec is a manufacturer and supplier of automated identification and data capture equipment, including barcode scanners, barcode printers, mobile computers, RFID systems, voice recognition systems, and life cycle services.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Intermec · See more »

International Air Transport Association

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is a trade association of the world’s airlines.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and International Air Transport Association · See more »

International Article Number

The International Article Number (also known as European Article Number or EAN) is a standard describing a barcode symbology and numbering system used in global trade to identify a specific retail product type, in a specific packaging configuration, from a specific manufacturer.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and International Article Number · See more »

International Civil Aviation Organization

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO Organisation de l'aviation civile internationale, OACI), is a specialized agency of the United Nations.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and International Civil Aviation Organization · See more »

International Electrotechnical Commission

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC; in French: Commission électrotechnique internationale) is an international standards organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – collectively known as "electrotechnology".

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and International Electrotechnical Commission · See more »

International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and International Organization for Standardization · See more »

Internet of things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical devices, vehicles, home appliances, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and connectivity which enables these things to connect and exchange data, creating opportunities for more direct integration of the physical world into computer-based systems, resulting in efficiency improvements, economic benefits, and reduced human exertions.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Internet of things · See more »

ISM band

The industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) radio bands are radio bands (portions of the radio spectrum) reserved internationally for the use of radio frequency (RF) energy for industrial, scientific and medical purposes other than telecommunications.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and ISM band · See more »

ISO 14223

ISO 14223 identification of animals — Advanced transponders is an international standard that specifies the structure of the radio frequency (RF) code for advanced transponders for animals.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and ISO 14223 · See more »

ISO/IEC 14443

ISO/IEC 14443 Identification cards -- Contactless integrated circuit cards -- Proximity cards is an international standard that defines proximity cards used for identification, and the transmission protocols for communicating with it.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and ISO/IEC 14443 · See more »

ISO/IEC 15693

ISO/IEC 15693, is an ISO standard for vicinity cards, i.e. cards which can be read from a greater distance as compared with proximity cards.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and ISO/IEC 15693 · See more »

ISO/IEC 18000

ISO/IEC 18000 is an international standard that describes a series of diverse RFID technologies, each using a unique frequency range.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and ISO/IEC 18000 · See more »

ISO/IEC 18000-3

ISO/IEC 18000-3 is an international standard for passive RFID item level identification and describes the parameters for air interface communications at 13.56 MHz.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and ISO/IEC 18000-3 · See more »

ISO/IEC 20248

ISO/IEC 20248 Automatic Identification and Data Capture Techniques – Data Structures – Digital Signature Meta Structure is an international standard specification under development by ISO/IEC JTC1 SC31 WG2.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and ISO/IEC 20248 · See more »

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 Automatic identification and data capture techniques

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 Automatic identification and data capture techniques is a standardization subcommittee of the joint subcommittee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), that develops and facilitates international standards, technical reports, and technical specifications in the field of automatic identification and data capture techniques.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 Automatic identification and data capture techniques · See more »

Item-level tagging

Item-level tagging (or RFID item-level tagging, also known as ILT) is the tagging of individual products, as opposed to case-level and pallet-level tagging.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Item-level tagging · See more »

Katherine Albrecht

Katherine Albrecht is a consumer privacy advocate and spokesperson against radio-frequency identification (RFID).

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Katherine Albrecht · See more »

Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick FIET, FCGI, (born 9 February 1954) is a British engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University in the United Kingdom.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Kevin Warwick · See more »

Léon Theremin

Lev Sergeyevich Termen (p; – 3 November 1993), or Léon Theremin in the United States, was a Russian and Soviet inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Léon Theremin · See more »

Liz McIntyre (writer)

Liz McIntyre is a consumer privacy expert and founder of CAMCAT - Citizens Against Marking, Chipping and Tracking, an organization that works to prevent forced human tracking technologies like implantable microchips.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Liz McIntyre (writer) · See more »

London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and London · See more »

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos or LANL for short) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory initially organized during World War II for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Los Alamos National Laboratory · See more »

Low frequency

Low frequency (low freq) or LF is the ITU designation for radio frequencies (RF) in the range of 30 kilohertz (kHz)–300 kHz.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Low frequency · See more »

Loyalty program

Loyalty programs are structured marketing strategies designed by merchants to encourage customers to continue to shop at or use the services of businesses associated with each program.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Loyalty program · See more »

Machine-readable passport

A machine-readable passport (MRP) is a machine-readable travel document (MRTD) with the data on the identity page encoded in optical character recognition format.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Machine-readable passport · See more »

Magnetic stripe card

A magnetic stripe card is a type of card capable of storing data by modifying the magnetism of tiny iron-based magnetic particles on a band of magnetic material on the card.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Magnetic stripe card · See more »

Malaysia

Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Malaysia · See more »

Mario Cardullo

Mario Cardullo is an American inventor, who received the first patent for a passive, read-write Radio-frequency identification tag.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Mario Cardullo · See more »

Mark Gasson

Mark N. Gasson is a British scientist and visiting research fellow at the Cybernetics Research Group, University of Reading, UK.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Mark Gasson · See more »

Mass surveillance

Mass surveillance is the intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population in order to monitor that group of citizens.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Mass surveillance · See more »

Microchip implant (animal)

A microchip implant is an identifying integrated circuit placed under the skin of an animal.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Microchip implant (animal) · See more »

Microchip implant (human)

A human microchip implant is typically an identifying integrated circuit device or RFID transponder encased in silicate glass and implanted in the body of a human being.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Microchip implant (human) · See more »

Microwave

Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from one meter to one millimeter; with frequencies between and.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Microwave · See more »

Middleware

Middleware is computer software that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Middleware · See more »

MIFARE

MIFARE is the NXP Semiconductors-owned trademark of a series of chips widely used in contactless smart cards and proximity cards.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and MIFARE · See more »

Minyanville

Minyanville Media, Inc. is an Internet-based financial media and publishing company.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Minyanville · See more »

Modulation

In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform, called the carrier signal, with a modulating signal that typically contains information to be transmitted.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Modulation · See more »

Monochrom

monochrom is an international art-technology-philosophy group, publishing house and film production company.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Monochrom · See more »

National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and National Football League · See more »

National Institute of Standards and Technology

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is one of the oldest physical science laboratories in the United States.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and National Institute of Standards and Technology · See more »

Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Natural gas · See more »

Near and far field

The near field and far field are regions of the electromagnetic field (EM) around an object, such as a transmitting antenna, or the result of radiation scattering off an object.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Near and far field · See more »

Near-field communication

Near-field communication (NFC) is a set of communication protocols that enable two electronic devices, one of which is usually a portable device such as a smartphone, to establish communication by bringing them within 4 cm (1.6 in) of each other.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Near-field communication · See more »

New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and New York City · See more »

Object Naming Service

Object Name Service (ONS) is a mechanism that leverages Domain Name System (DNS) to discover information about a product and related services from the Electronic Product Code (EPC).

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Object Naming Service · See more »

Orienteering

Orienteering is a group of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Orienteering · See more »

Osaka

() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Osaka · See more »

Panopticon

The Panopticon is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Panopticon · See more »

Paul Moskowitz

Paul A. Moskowitz works at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Paul Moskowitz · See more »

Pay as you throw

Pay as you throw (PAYT) (also called trash metering, unit pricing, variable rate pricing, or user-pay) is a usage-pricing model for disposing of municipal solid waste.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Pay as you throw · See more »

Personal identification number

A personal identification number (PIN, pronounced "pin"; is often spoken out loud "PIN number" by mistake) is a numeric or alpha-numeric password or code used in the process of authenticating or identifying a user to a system and system to a user.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Personal identification number · See more »

Pipeline transport

Pipeline transport is the transportation of goods or material through a pipe.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Pipeline transport · See more »

Privacy by design

Privacy by design calls for privacy to be taken into account throughout the whole engineering process.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Privacy by design · See more »

Proximity card

A proximity card or prox card is a "contactless" smart card which can be read without inserting it into a reader device, as required by earlier magnetic stripe cards such as credit cards and "contact" type smart cards.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Proximity card · See more »

Public-key cryptography

Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is any cryptographic system that uses pairs of keys: public keys which may be disseminated widely, and private keys which are known only to the owner.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Public-key cryptography · See more »

Quarterback

A quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB") is a position in American and Canadian football.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Quarterback · See more »

Radio frequency

Radio frequency (RF) refers to oscillatory change in voltage or current in a circuit, waveguide or transmission line in the range extending from around twenty thousand times per second to around three hundred billion times per second, roughly between the upper limit of audio and the lower limit of infrared.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Radio frequency · See more »

Radio wave

Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum longer than infrared light.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Radio wave · See more »

Radio-frequency identification in schools

Various schools have been using radio-frequency identification technology to record and monitor students.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Radio-frequency identification in schools · See more »

Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Rail transport · See more »

Read-only memory

Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Read-only memory · See more »

Real-time locating system

Real-time locating systems (RTLS) are used to automatically identify and track the location of objects or people in real time, usually within a building or other contained area.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Real-time locating system · See more »

Resonant inductive coupling

Resonant inductive coupling or magnetic phase synchronous coupling is a phenomenon with inductive coupling where the coupling becomes stronger when the "secondary" (load-bearing) side of the loosely coupled coil resonates.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Resonant inductive coupling · See more »

Resonator

A resonator is a device or system that exhibits resonance or resonant behavior, that is, it naturally oscillates at some frequencies, called its resonant frequencies, with greater amplitude than at others.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Resonator · See more »

RFID on metal

RFID on metal (abbreviated to ROM) are radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags which perform a specific function when attached to metal objects.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and RFID on metal · See more »

RFID skimming

RFID skimming is a form of digital theft, which enables information from RFID based smart cards to be read and duplicated.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and RFID skimming · See more »

RFID testing

RFID is a wireless technology supported by many different vendors for tags (also called transponders or smart cards) and readers (also called interrogators or terminals).

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and RFID testing · See more »

Richard Stallman

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often known by his initials, rms—is an American free software movement activist and programmer.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Richard Stallman · See more »

Rolling code

A rolling code (or sometimes called a hopping code) is used in keyless entry systems to prevent replay attacks, where an eavesdropper records the transmission and replays it at a later time to cause the receiver to 'unlock'.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Rolling code · See more »

Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Rome · See more »

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is a city in the Netherlands, in South Holland within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt river delta at the North Sea.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Rotterdam · See more »

RSA blocker tag

An RSA blocker tag (or RSA tag) is a RFID tag that responds positively to all unauthorized requests, thus blocking some scanners from reading any RFID tags placed nearby.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and RSA blocker tag · See more »

San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and San Francisco · See more »

Security

Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) from external forces.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Security · See more »

Self-checkout

Self-checkout (also known as self-service checkout and as semi-attended customer-activated terminal, SACAT) machines provide a mechanism for customers to process their own purchases from a retailer.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Self-checkout · See more »

Sensor

In the broadest definition, a sensor is a device, module, or subsystem whose purpose is to detect events or changes in its environment and send the information to other electronics, frequently a computer processor.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Sensor · See more »

Sewerage

Sewerage is the infrastructure that conveys sewage or surface runoff (stormwater, meltwater, rainwater) using sewers.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Sewerage · See more »

Silicon on insulator

Silicon on insulator (SOI) technology refers to the use of a layered silicon–insulator–silicon substrate in place of conventional silicon substrates in semiconductor manufacturing, especially microelectronics, to reduce parasitic device capacitance, thereby improving performance.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Silicon on insulator · See more »

Singulation

Singulation is a method by which an RFID reader identifies a tag with a specific serial number from a number of tags in its field.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Singulation · See more »

Ski lift

A ski lift is a mechanism for transporting skiers up a hill.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Ski lift · See more »

Ski resort

A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Ski resort · See more »

Smart card

A smart card, chip card, or integrated circuit card (ICC), is any pocket-sized card that has embedded integrated circuits.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Smart card · See more »

Smart label

Smart Label, also called Smart Tag, is an extremely flat configured transponder under a conventional print-coded label, which includes chip, antenna and bonding wires as a so-called inlay.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Smart label · See more »

Smartdust

Smartdust is a system of many tiny microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) such as sensors, robots, or other devices, that can detect, for example, light, temperature, vibration, magnetism, or chemicals.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Smartdust · See more »

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Soviet Union · See more »

Speedpass

Speedpass is a keychain RFID device introduced in 1997 by Mobil Oil Corp.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Speedpass · See more »

Spermatozoon

A spermatozoon (pronounced, alternate spelling spermatozoön; plural spermatozoa; from σπέρμα "seed" and ζῷον "living being") is a motile sperm cell, or moving form of the haploid cell that is the male gamete.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Spermatozoon · See more »

Super high frequency

Super high frequency (SHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies (RF) in the range between 3 and 30 gigahertz (GHz).

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Super high frequency · See more »

Supply chain

A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Supply chain · See more »

Supply chain management

In commerce, supply chain management (SCM), the management of the flow of goods and services, involves the movement and storage of raw materials, of work-in-process inventory, and of finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Supply chain management · See more »

Surveillance

Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, activities, or other changing information for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting people.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Surveillance · See more »

Symmetric-key algorithm

Symmetric-key algorithms are algorithms for cryptography that use the same cryptographic keys for both encryption of plaintext and decryption of ciphertext.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Symmetric-key algorithm · See more »

Technical standard

A technical standard is an established norm or requirement in regard to technical systems.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Technical standard · See more »

TecTile

TecTiles are a near field communication (NFC) application, developed by Samsung, for use with mobile smartphone devices.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and TecTile · See more »

Telemetry

Telemetry is an automated communications process by which measurements and other data are collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Telemetry · See more »

Terabyte

The terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Terabyte · See more »

The Thing (listening device)

The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or "bugs") to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and The Thing (listening device) · See more »

Tracking system

A tracking system is used for the observing of persons or objects on the move and supplying a timely ordered sequence of location data for further processing.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Tracking system · See more »

Transparent Prototype

The Transparent Prototype is a project in the automotive industry to track & trace test vehicles and prototype parts using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Transparent Prototype · See more »

Transponder

In telecommunication, a transponder can be one of two types of devices.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Transponder · See more »

Transponder (aeronautics)

A transponder (short for transmitter-responder and sometimes abbreviated to XPDR, XPNDR, TPDR or TP) is an electronic device that produces a response when it receives a radio-frequency interrogation.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Transponder (aeronautics) · See more »

Transponder timing

Transponder timing (also called chip timing or RFID timing) is a technique for measuring performance in sport events.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Transponder timing · See more »

Ultra high frequency

Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one decimeter.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Ultra high frequency · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and United States · See more »

United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and United States Department of Agriculture · See more »

United States Department of Defense

The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and United States Department of Defense · See more »

United States Department of Veterans Affairs

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a federal Cabinet-level agency that provides near-comprehensive healthcare services to eligible military veterans at VA medical centers and outpatient clinics located throughout the country; several non-healthcare benefits including disability compensation, vocational rehabilitation, education assistance, home loans, and life insurance; and provides burial and memorial benefits to eligible veterans and family members at 135 national cemeteries.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and United States Department of Veterans Affairs · See more »

United States passport

United States passports are passports issued to citizens and nationals of the United States of America.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and United States passport · See more »

Universal Product Code

The Universal Product Code (UPC) is a barcode symbology that is widely used in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, in Europe and other countries for tracking trade items in stores.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Universal Product Code · See more »

University of Bristol

The University of Bristol (simply referred to as Bristol University and abbreviated as Bris. in post-nominal letters, or UoB) is a red brick research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and University of Bristol · See more »

URL

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and URL · See more »

Vatican Library

The Vatican Apostolic Library (Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana), more commonly called the Vatican Library or simply the Vat, is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Vatican Library · See more »

Walmart

Walmart Inc. (formerly branded as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Walmart · See more »

Whitcliffe Mount School

Whitcliffe Mount School is a mixed secondary school located in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Whitcliffe Mount School · See more »

Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Wired (magazine) · See more »

Wireless identification and sensing platform

A wireless identification and sensing platform (WISP) is an RFID (radio-frequency identification) device that supports sensing and computing: a microcontroller powered by radio-frequency energy.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Wireless identification and sensing platform · See more »

Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Wisconsin · See more »

World Summit on the Information Society

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a two-phase United Nations-sponsored summit on information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and World Summit on the Information Society · See more »

World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and World War II · See more »

Zebra Technologies

Zebra Technologies is a public company based in Lincolnshire, Illinois, USA, that manufactures and sells marking, tracking and computer printing technologies.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Zebra Technologies · See more »

Zipcar

Zipcar is an American car-sharing company and a subsidiary of Avis Budget Group.

New!!: Radio-frequency identification and Zipcar · See more »

Redirects here:

Arphid, Blocker tag, Bulk reading, Chip tag, Contactless identification, Embedded ID chip, Embedded id chip, Gen 2, ID chip, Optical RFID, Optical rfid, PIT tag, Passive Integrated Transponder, Passive RFID, Passive integrated transponder, Pit tag, RF ID tag, RF/ID, RFID, RFID chip, RFID shielding, RFID tag, RFID tracking module, Radio Frequency Identification, Radio frequency identification, Radio id, Radio identification tag, Radio tag, Radiofrequency identification, Read-on-metal, Rfid, Rfid in hand, Rfid tag, Smart labels, Spy chip, Spy chips, Spychip, Spychips.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »