Kaspar C, Melski A, Lietke B, Boslau M, Hagenhoff S (2009)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Subtype: other
Publication year: 2009
Publisher: IGI Global Publishing
Edited Volumes: Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
City/Town: Hershey, PA
Pages Range: 44-53
ISBN: 9781605669601 [Titel anha
URI: https://www.igi-global.com/book/ubiquitous-pervasive-computing/1008
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-960-1.ch005
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a radiosupported identification technology that typically operates by saving a serial number on a radio transponder that contains a microchip for data storage. Via radio waves, the coded information is communicated to a reading device (Jones et al., 2005). RFID does not represent a new development; it was devised by the American military in the 1940s. Since the technology’s clearance for civil use in 1977, RFID has been successfully used for the identification of productive livestock, for electronic immobilizer systems in vehicles, or for the surveillance of building entrances (Srivastava, 2005). Due to decreasing unit costs (especially for passive transponders), RFID technologies now seem increasingly applicable for the labeling of goods and semi-finished products. By this, manual or semi-automatic data entry, for instance through the use of barcodes, can be avoided. This closes the technical gap between the real world (characterized by the lack of distribution transparency of its objects) and the digital world (characterized by logically and physically unambiguous and therefore distribution-transparent objects). In addition, RFID facilitates fully automated simultaneous recognition of more than one transponder without direct line of sight between reader and transponders.
APA:
Kaspar, C., Melski, A., Lietke, B., Boslau, M., & Hagenhoff, S. (2009). RFID – Technologies and Applications. In Symonds J (Eds.), Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. (pp. 44-53). Hershey, PA: IGI Global Publishing.
MLA:
Kaspar, Christian, et al. "RFID – Technologies and Applications." Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. Ed. Symonds J, Hershey, PA: IGI Global Publishing, 2009. 44-53.
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