RFID ePassports Identity Skimming ...

RFID e-passports, or electronic passports, will become available in the United States. The RFID technology, used in the passports, is subject to identity skimming. ...

... "They'll have radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and are meant to cut down on human error of immigration officials, speed the processing of visitors and safeguard against counterfeit passports. " ...

RFID ePassports Identity Skimming: Via CNN: Technologists object to U.S. RFID passports ...

RFID Mobile Asset Management

IBSS introduces RFID-enabled mobile asset management solution to create a real-time view of assets and their movements. Benefits are lowering asset shrinkage and accelerating asset location. Active RFID enables the identification of mobile assets. ...

... "Integrated Business Systems and Services, Inc. (IBSS) announced its new offering, the SynTrack Mobile Asset Management system , a new product created for organizations seeking more efficient asset utilization by the use of RFID and wireless technologies. Simultaneously, IBSS also announced an agreement establishing IDENTEC SOLUTIONS as a certified Value Added Reseller of SynTrack Mobile Asset Management. Today, organizations spend millions of dollars on expensive equipment only to have it lost or stolen. Annual losses can range from thousands to millions of dollars. By having a real time view of where these assets are, when and where they move, and how they are managed, companies can significantly reduce these losses as well as improve worker efficiency in locating critical equipment.

SynTrack Mobile Asset Management is IBSS' application for real time, dynamic tracking and management of assets and personnel. It allows organizations to locate, track and manage expensive, important equipment utilizing active RFID technology. Developed on IBSS' proprietary Synapse platform, the system is quickly and easily configurable to nearly any asset tracking application across commercial vertical markets. SynTrack Mobile Asset Management is ideally suited for applications in Energy, Government, Manufacturing, Security, and many other industries. Installation is quick and easy. The system is configured intuitively by defining a hierarchy of zones, tags and tag groups so assets can be quickly located. Important assets and/or desired personnel are equipped with RFID tags. These tags are sensed by strategically placed RFID readers and antennas that communicate with the SynTrack Mobile Asset Management system as a tagged object passes through a geographically defined zone. " ...

RFID Mobile Asset Management: Via IBSS: IBSS INTRODUCES SynTrack MOBILE ASSET MANAGEMENT ...

RFID NordicID Handheld Reader: PL3000

NordicID introduces lightweight mobile handheld RFID reader, model PL3000, to enable retail data collection. ...

... "In coming years, RFID will revolutionise product coding in the retail business in the same way that traditional black and white bar codes did when they were introduced in the 1970s. With RFID, products are identified with special radio tags, which are read by handheld equipment and other devices. When the tags pass through a Radio Frequency (RF) field generated by a compatible reader, they transmit information stored by the tag to the reader, thereby identifying and giving details about the object to which they are attached. With RFID automation of logistics and customer service in retail can be taken into a new level of performance. Nordic ID is one of the first companies to introduce a sophisticated handheld computer designed for this new data collection concept. It is smaller and more light weight than other UHF RFID readers introduced so far. Currently, the handheld supports ISO18000-6 B, UCODE and EPC 1.19 standards. ISO18000-6 A, EPC Class 1 Gen 1 and EPC Class1 Gen 2 versions will be introduced shortly.

Nordic ID's PL3000 weighs only 500g and its level of power consumption and ergonomic design allows it to be used for long periods with a single hand. In the PL3000, Nordic ID has combined powerful data collection, processing and storing capacity with a variety of wireless communication technologies including WLAN and Bluetooth for local environments and GPRS or GSM for remote applications. In addition to the UHF RFID reader, the PL3000 can be equipped with barcode and 2D code readers. All the functionalities are integrated into a highly ergonomic and user friendly, mobile instrument. " ...

RFID NordicID Handheld Reader: PL3000: Via Nordic ID: Nordic ID launches revolutionary handheld computer with UHF RFID reader ...



With major investments planned for the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) in the retail, warehouse and distribution markets, Nordic ID, the leading Finnish specialist in handheld terminals and data collection, has launched the PL3000 handheld computer for UHF data collection systems. This is believed to be the first device of its type that can be used on European frequency bands and provide truly mobile data collection.

RFID Identification in China ...

RFID technology can be used to track objects - people, goods, and other materials. Zhu Shenshen explores the use of RFID in China to track goods. ...

RFID Identification in China: Via Shanghai Daily: Wave of the future: IDs by radio

... "RFID provides an effective security check by transmitting a unique serial number via radio waves to identify an object or person. It is grouped under the broad category of automatic identification technologies. " ...

RFID NFC Near Field Communication Transform Commerce ...

RFID NFC Near Field Communication Transform Commerce: Via ABI Research: ABI Research Sees Three Critical Years for Near-Field Communications ...

... "Near Field Communications (NFC) applications will transform consumer commerce, connectivity and content consumption, beginning with trials through 2006 and volume deployments into 2007, according to a new study from ABI Research. NFC, a short-range contactless communications protocol, enables easy-to-use, secure Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity between devices. It provides high-bandwidth content acquisition and transfer, contactless payment capability and smart object interaction. That means, for instance, interactive advertising posters and kiosks, instant ticketing, and transmitting audio, video and pictures. NFC brings convenience to increasingly connected digital consumers. " ...

RFID API Application Programming Interface

RFID API Application Programming Interface: Java dotNet Support: SAMSys Simplifies RFID Reader Management with RAPID, New RFID Application Programming Interface for Developers ...

SamSys introduces RFID API for Java and dotNet development community ...

... "SAMSys Technologies Inc. (SMY: TSX), an international provider of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) hardware solutions, today announced the availability of its RFID Application Programming Interface for Developers (RAPID). The new API simplifies the management of SAMSys RFID UHF readers by enabling developers to use familiar Java and Microsoft .NET programming environments when writing interfaces to their RFID middleware or custom applications for controlling reader functions. RAPID is a high-level, easy-to-use, type-safe API that replaces the low-level proprietary programming language formerly required to manage SAMSys readers. It shortens development cycles through use of Java and .NET as well as extensive use of object-oriented properties, thus further simplifying the deployment of the RFID network infrastructure. " ...

SAMSys Technologies Inc. (SAMSys), founded in 1995, is a world-leading provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) reader solutions. SAMSys offers a family of products to simplify the installation and ensure the ongoing performance of the overall RFID hardware infrastructure. SAMSys is a public company whose shares are listed for trading on the TSX Exchange under the symbol: SMY.

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RFID Enables Extreme Data ...

RFID Enables Extreme Data: Via CSC: EXTREME DATA REVOLUTIONIZING THE WAY COMPANIES DO BUSINESS, SAYS CSC REPORT ...

... "Extreme data has added two important aspects to data: time and place. The integration of location-detection technologies, digital cameras, real-time sensors, wireless and mobile devices, and geographic information systems allows applications to determine when and where people and things are, and other real-time information. This data provides powerful digital bearings that make individuals and businesses smarter, safer and more precise. Location-detection technologies such as GPS and radio frequency identification (RFID), coupled with map data, enable four key capabilities: location awareness, dynamic mapping, object tracking and rapid identification. " ...

Founded in 1959, Computer Sciences Corporation is a leading global IT services company. CSC’s mission is to provide customers in industry and government with solutions crafted to meet their specific challenges and enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology. With approximately 78,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC’s own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., CSC reported revenue of $14.3 billion from continuing operations for the 12 months ended July 1, 2005.

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RFID Electromagnetic Spectrum ...

RFID Electromagnetic Spectrum Distance reading will increase serving more RFIDs per reader. Many RFIDs have write capabilities. Costs will drop making writable RFIDs commonplace ...

... "RFID (radio frequency identification) is a technology that incorporates the use of electromagnetic or electrostatic coupling in the radio frequency (RF) portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to uniquely identify an object, animal, or person. " ...

RFID Open Standards EPC

RFID Open Standards EPC: Logistics and Materiel Readiness, Home page

... "Concurrently, efforts were underway to make it possible for computers to identify any object anywhere in the world instantly utilizing passive RFID technology. The key was to create a universal, open standard for identifying products and sharing information. Part of that work was to develop the Electronic Product Code (EPC) - a unique number that identifies a specific item in the supply chain. " ...

RFID Autonomous Construction Systems

RFID Autonomous Construction Systems: BFRL: 2005 Project Information

... "Recent efforts in the IACJS road-mapping initiative have identified approximately twenty-five critical research areas as ranked by leading industry representatives from DOW, Black & Veatch, Fluor, Intel, GSA, CH2MHill, and others. Construction object recognition and tracking is a component of at least ten of these research areas. The combination of LADAR scanning technology, real-time object recognition, automatic identification (RFID), and tracking technologies (e.g. UWB, GPS) provide powerful potential mechanisms for assessing real-time status of construction site operations and lay ground work for autonomous construction systems. " ...

RFID Automatic Identification Technology: EAN UCC

Combating Counterfeiting and Enabling Traceability in the Global Healthcare Supply Chain by using the EAN.UCC System

... "Automatic Identification is the umbrella term for technologies that allow machines (typically computers) to automatically identify objects. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is one type of automatic identification technology. Objects are labeled with "tags" (a microchip with a radio frequency antenna) that store data, which defines that object in a structured manner. Using radio waves, the reader wakes up the tags and automatically captures that data, which can then be processed. " ...

RFID Embedded Systems ...

Embedded Systems RFID: Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an automated data-capture technology that can be used to electronically identify, track, and store information contained on a tag that is attached to or embedded in an object, such as a product, case, or pallet ...

... "An embedded system is a special-purpose computer system that is used within a device. An embedded system has specific requirements and performs predefined tasks, unlike a general-purpose personal computer. To date, embedded RFID chips have been tested in smart test tubes that store data about the tube's contents, which has facilitated obtaining correct information for identifying specimens and time-stamping doctor's orders. Embedded chips in credit cards and mobile phones for contactless payments are also expected to become increasingly popular in Asia. Embedded RFID chips are being proposed for use in numerous applications, including electronic passports, tires to determine wear, drug containers for tracking and theft control, and aircraft for maintenance. " ...

RFID Process Automation Airline Industry ...

RFID Process Automation Airline Industry: Magic's HERMES System Wins a One Million Dollar Deal in Frankfurt Airport ...

Magic creates business process automation for airline industry that is compatible with RFID, radio frequency identification, technology ...

... "SCOPE will enable FCS to leverage the advantages of mobile handheld terminals to track and manage cargo in real-time within the cargo terminal. SCOPE provides high levels of process automation and reduction of operational errors due to its utilisation of barcode (SCOPE is also ready for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)). SCOPE will also allow FCS to employ proactive Service Level management of all shipments with its built-in warnings and automatic reminders to operational staff of carrier-specific requirements. " ...

Magic Software Enterprises, a subsidiary of Formula Systems (Nasdaq: FORTY), develops, markets and supports software development, deployment and integration technology that enables enterprises to accelerate the process of building and deploying applications that can be rapidly customized and integrated with existing systems. Magic technology, applications and professional services are available through a global network of subsidiaries, distributors and Magic solutions partners in approximately 50 countries.

EPC RFID Electronic Product Code

Radio Frequency Identification FR Doc 05-8369

... "Electronic Product Code TM (EPC) means an identification scheme for universally identifying physical objects via RFID tags and other means. The standardized EPC data consists of an EPC (or EPC identifier) that uniquely identifies an individual object, as well as an optional filter value when judged to be necessary to enable effective and efficient reading of the EPC tags. In addition to this standardized data, certain classes of EPC tags will allow user-defined data. The EPC tag data standards will define the length and position of this data, without defining its content. " ...

RFID Drug Importation: Development & Distribution ...

HHS Task Force on Drug Importation: Development & Distribution ...

... "Consequently, the tag costs and, therefore, its functionality was minimized. The resulting cheap tag stores only a unique identifier, the electronic product code known as EPC, for a particular object. The unique object identifier is global in scope and acts as a pointer to information stored about the object somewhere over the information network. A redirection service, the object name service, is used in conjunction with the electronic product code to identify the location of information and related services for a particular object. The object name service allows for the location or locally available information, as well as globally available information. The information must be stored in a standard language to enable true automation, which is required in supply chains. The Auto ID system utilizes an XML based language called the physical mark-up language to standardize the description of physical objects and their properties. Therefore, there are three major components of the auto ID system: the radio frequency identification tags, the software backbone of the system and the standards of the technology." ...

EPC RFID Lifecycle Management: Driving a Sustainable Future

EHP 111-9, 2003: Connecting to a Sustainable Future

... "Before the end of this decade, there will be an Internet of things. The Auto-ID Center, a partnership of almost 100 global companies and 5 of the world's leading research universities, is developing a global infrastructure that will allow computers to identify any object anywhere in the world instantly, through the use of radio-frequency identification tags (RFID). Every product, and even individual parts, will have its own unique identity (an electronic product code, or ePC) burned onto a tiny microchip equipped with an antenna. " ...

EPC Network RFID Tags ...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology: What the Future Holds for Commerce, Security, and the Consumer: VeriSign is the leading provider of critical infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks ...

... "An Electronic Product Code (EPC) embedded on an RFID tag provides a unique number that can be assigned to individual items in cases and pallets within the supply chain for identification and tracking. With the EPC network, computers that use RFID technology to identify objects can acquire associated information about that object, enabling manufacturers to track items and materials throughout the supply chain. This technology will revolutionize the way products are manufactured, sold and bought. VeriSign was selected to operate this network by EPCglobal, a non-profit joint venture of the Uniform Code Council (which manages the allocation of bar codes) and the EAN International (which provides similar services internationally) responsible for driving the global adoption and implementation of the EPCglobal Network across industry sectors. " ...

Systematic Approach to RFID ...

Panel 5--Anti-Counterfeit Drug Initiative--October 2003 Meeting

... "What do we need to be able to deliver on the potential of the EPC network? We need a systematic approach to Radio Frequency Identification--or RFID for short--that is based on standards. This is a view of the EPC network components. Starting with Electronic Product Code or EPC, the EPC uniquely identifies the item. The tag is a small RFID chip with an antenna. In the EPC network, these tags can be as small as a dime and can be made to fit within the lid of a vial. Tags are excited by and broadcast their EPC information back to the reader. Savant is a set of functionality that serves as the real-time event manager or traffic cop in a reader network. Savant can be implemented in software or as a combination of software and firmware in the reader itself. ONS, the Object Name Service, provides a simple directory that can tell Savant where in the network information related to a particular EPC number can be found. ONS is very much like DNS, the Domain Name Service, that's part of the Internet. ONS and DNS share many of the same characteristics. " ...

Research Project: RFID Market ...

ABSTRACTS - Phase I

... "Many applications are emerging in which communication between low speed, very low cost tags (wireless nodes) and base stations designates energy conservation as a critical system parameter. These applications include warehouse identification tags, hospital ID tags, smart tags, and intelligent ID cards, to name only a few. Tags are small devices with radio or infrared reception/transmission and processing capabilities integrated into a device the size of an ID card or smaller and designed for the lowest possible cost. Cost minimization and network size prohibit the replacement of batteries that need to last for as long as the object needs to be identified, from weeks to several years. The design of wireless access protocols for tag networks requires, therefore, that transmission of data that is often delay-sensitive occur under critical energy conservation and cost constraints. As classical access protocols do not meet these requirements, this project will introduce and evaluate several novel classes of protocols designated for these emerging low speed, low cost networks. The market potential for these systems is estimated at billions of dollars per year, underscoring the importance of this work." ...

EPC Electronic Product Code: Connecting to a Sustainable Future

EHP 111-9, 2003: Connecting to a Sustainable Future

... "Before the end of this decade, there will be an Internet of things. The Auto-ID Center, a partnership of almost 100 global companies and 5 of the world's leading research universities, is developing a global infrastructure that will allow computers to identify any object anywhere in the world instantly, through the use of radio-frequency identification tags. Every product, and even individual parts, will have its own unique identity (an electronic product code, or ePC) burned onto a tiny microchip equipped with an antenna.

A global computer network, layered on top of the Internet, has been developed to coordinate and process the mountains of information this system will generate. For business, radio-frequency identification tags will revolutionize management of the supply chain, eliminating all guesswork from inventory control, allowing precise fulfillment of demand, and facilitating optimized cradle-to-grave tracking of products, including recycling and refurbishment. Observers are optimistic that the system will generate substantial environmental benefits as well. Obviously, massive potential gains in efficiency could eventually translate into massive energy savings. " ...

Electronic Product Code Update to Committee on Energy and Commerce

The Committee on Energy and Commerce

... "An Electronic Product Code (EPC) embedded on an RFID tag provides a unique number that can be assigned to individual items in cases and pallets within the supply chain for identification and tracking. With the EPC network, computers that use RFID technology to identify objects can acquire associated information about that object, enabling manufacturers to track items and materials throughout the supply chain. This technology will revolutionize the way products are manufactured, sold and bought. VeriSign was selected to operate this network by EPCglobal, a non-profit joint venture of the Uniform Code Council (which manages the allocation of bar codes) and the EAN International (which provides similar services internationally) responsible for driving the global adoption and implementation of the EPCglobal Network across industry sectors. " ...

Industry Cooperation on the RFID Technology-Based EPC Initiative ...

Industry Cooperation on the RFID Technology-Based EPC Initiative ...

GCI supports the implementation of RFID technology based on open, global standards. GCI promotes the practical application of the Electronic Product Code through an EPC roadmap. It supports the vision of a sense-and-respond consumer products supply chain, in wich every object is tracked and triggers a response that is interpreted and acted upon without human intervention. This vision is being driven by the GCI EPC Working Group, which is an end-user group supporting the adoption of standards-based RFID. The working group has published the GCI Intelligent Tagging Model that describes business applications and requirements for RFID.

... About the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI): The Global Commerce Initiative is a voluntary body created to improve the performance of the international supply chain for consumer goods through the collaborative development and endorsement of recommended standards and key business processes. GCI operates through an executive board composed of senior representatives of more than 45 companies drawn equally from manufacturing and retailing that do business across continents or via global supply chains. It operates under the sponsorship of eight existing organisations representing the interests of one million businesses, large and small. For more information on the Global Commerce Initiative and the GCI EPC Working Group, please visit www.gci-net.org. ...



Additional resources on the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) ...

What is GCI?: Welcome to the Global Commerce Initiative. GCI - Working Together to Simplify Global Business. What is GCI? GCI is the single unifying ...

EAN International: Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) The Global Commerce Initiative is a voluntary body created in October 1999 to improve the performance of the international ...

Global Technology Initiative: File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat ... The advantage of industry-wide RFID implementation is the ability to track ... Under the vision created by the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI-see the glossary of ...

RFID Smart Dust: Smart Dust Advances in Russia

From Nanotechwire.com (press release), PA ... The birth of Smart Dust potential was based on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and the journey toward full-on Distributed-Sensing Smart Dust - which is ...

... Smart Dust is going to be something really special. But not just yet. Like a toddler learning to walk by furniture cruising, staggering wobbly from stationary object to object, Smart Dust is looking for its sea legs. ...

RFID Network: Ubisense Ultrawideband Location Devices Certified by US FCC

From PR Newswire (press release) ... While traditional radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is becoming the standard for managing product manufacturing and the distribution supply ...

... From developing new and productive ways to utilize office space to locating patients, medical staff and equipment in hospitals to managing innovative lighting for stage shows, Ubisense Smart Space uses patented and patent pending technology to create an ultrawideband-based network inside a building capable of locating a person or object in three dimensions to within 6 inches in real-time. The devices comprising the platform today received certification from the Federal Communications Commission to operate in the United States. ...

With offices in Denver, Colo. and Cambridge, England, Ubisense is the Smart Space company whose location aware sense-driven platform increases the value, usability, and security of space. Ubisense utilizes ultrawideband (UWB) technology to deliver cost-effective, scalable products for the intelligent tracking of thousands of objects to 6-inch 3D accuracy, in real-time.