RFID Skimming Creates Privacy Concerns

The ease with which RFID-enabled passports can be skimmed raises privacy concerns. ...

... "Within an hour, he'd skimmed the identifiers of four more of the new, microchipped PASS cards from a distance of 20 feet. " ...

Via Los Angeles Times: Privacy Issues

RFID rTag LocationSpecific

Digital Angel introduces new RFID system, r.Tag, which is a flexible active RFID tag technology for automatic collection of identification data that can be correlated to a specific location. ...

... "The electronic transponder r.Tags can be read at distances up to100 feet, and when coupled with the system's r.Tag Position Indicators, an animal's location can be established within a few feet. The low-cost scanners feature solar-powered backup batteries, and all communications are wireless with no cabling required. " ...

Via Digital Angel: R.TAG SYSTEM

ePassport RFID Challenges

The RFID technology in e-passports and enhanced drivers licenses present a security challenge. Privacy and border security can be at risk from unauthorized reading of the RFID tags. ...

... "The tags are inexpensive and can, in ideal conditions, be read from about 150 feet away -- an unusually long range for RFID, says Ari Juels, director and chief scientist at RSA Laboratories ... " ...

Via MIT Tech Review: Security Problem

High-Scalability RFID Architecture

Mojix introduces European version of the Mojix STAR system, its UHF passive RFID solution for high-scalability. The system delivers significant improvements in reader sensitivity, extended read range, and additional coverage. ...

... "Functioning as a single network element at the enterprise edge, a Mojix STAR system consists of one or more Mojix STAR Receivers each managing up to 512 low-cost Mojix eNode transmitters, which are oriented to define the system's potentially huge, three dimensional coverage area. Mojix eNode transmitters provide energy to all passive RFID tags within their specified interrogation spaces. The centralized, high-sensitivity Mojix STAR receiver processes the resulting tag signals from across the system's 25,000 sq meter coverage area, including non line-of-sight tag signals. This unprecedented receive sensitivity is the result of Mojix’s use of advanced digital signal processing, phased array receiver, digital beam forming and digital packet radio to detect the faintest signals across large distances in noisy RF environments. " ...

Via Mojix: STAR System

Mojix RFID Long Read Range and Coverage

Mojix introduces a revolutionary new class of RFID systems, the Mojix STAR system, that can be experienced at the RFID Journal LIVE! event in Las Vegas, Nevada. ...

... "The EPCglobal GEN 2-compliant Mojix STAR system radically redefines the performance parameters of passive RFID, delivering 100,000 times the indoor receiver sensitivity of previous solutions, 20 times the read range (600 feet), and 100 times the coverage area (up to 250,000 square feet) with non line-of-sight capabilities - to dramatically extend the utility, scope and value of RFID applications and use cases.



Developed by experts in deep space communications, the Mojix STAR system combines advances in digital signal processing technology perfected in deep space applications with an innovative architecture to economically expand RFID coverage by an order of magnitude in spacetime (3D). Freed from the traditional restraints of conventional passive RFID technology, a single Mojix STAR system can handle numerous concurrent applications across an entire warehouse, retail complex, distribution center, transportation yard or other large contiguous space with a single point of data collection and management. " ...

Via Mojix: Revolutionary New Class of RFID System