RFID TECHNOLOGY: WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS ...

... "As we will learn, Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, as it is commonly known, is frankly a World War II-era technology that has begun to find new commercial and government application in just the last few years. In basic terms, the most common commercial application of RFID used radio waves to transmit data from a transmitting device called a tag to a scanning device called a reader which can be networked with a computer data base. These RFID tags can be attached to products and packaging individually. Readers are able to activate tags via radio signals and receive tag data without line-of-sight scanning, which is a limitation for the common barcode." ...