RFID Border Technology: Alternative Technologies for Implementation of Section 110 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 at Land Borders

From SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND CLAIMS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ...

... "These RF systems operate in 100 kilohertz to 10 gigahertz frequency range and are proliferating in North America and worldwide. Over five million RF transponders are currently deployed across North America on automobiles, trucks and rail cars, to support electronic toll collection, automatic equipment identification on rail cars, automatic vehicle identification on private vehicles, and for electronic border crossing applications. The basic RFID systems are composed of wallet-size transponders or tags that carry unique codes and are attached to objects to be identified. I brought examples of these tags. Here's one that's being used at the border crossing at Peace Bridge. Here's a Hughes tag. This is a type of tag that's being used on the SENTRI program, which you'll hear more about today, down at Otay Mesa. This Texas Instruments tag is being used in San Diego to support single occupancy drivers on a high occupancy toll lane." ...