Thursday, February 26, 2009

Home RFID

Low cost tagging system for personal applications ...

... "Tikitaggers suggesting and even developing their own applications to work with the product. While this potentially means thousands of apps, some of them are highly specialised ... " ...


Via Stuff: RFID guide

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Mobile-Enabling Objects with RFID

RFID mobile solutions with touchatag
Alcatel-Lucent creates new capabilities for its touchatag (tikitag), such as two-dimensional barcode support, application programming inteface extensions, and new business applications for mobile enablement of objects. ...

... "touchatag is an online Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) service. This service makes it possible for the creation of applications that enable the launch of online applications with a simple touch of an RFID enabled device, such as a mobile phone. Items tagged with an RFID chip provide users with one touch, fast and easy access to on-line information, registration, ticketing and payment.

The new 2D barcode tag creation capability enables an RFID tag to be read by a mobile phone camera with a 2D barcode reader. With this capability, the touchatag online service then selects the right application to initiate, given the tag reader ID and the context. For example, a user can be seamlessly linked to a person's social network by reading a 2D barcode tag on a photo on a business card. Additionally, consumers can use a Firefox plug-in to quickly link a RFID tag to a website directly from their browser. " ...


Via Alcatel-Lucent: touchatag contactless applications

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Inexpensive RFID Pilot

RFID evaluations can be had on-the-cheap. Tikitag is available as an evaluation tool. ...

... "When you place a tag near the reader the client software receives the tag's unique ID, which is then sent to what Tikitag calls an application that you have defined on the Tikitag Web site. " ...


Via Network World: Tikitag

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Monday, September 08, 2008

TikiTag RFID Explained

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