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RFID Essentials: An Introduction to RFID

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Overview RFID is one of the more recent four-letter abbreviations to have greatness thrust upon it in a flurry of industry mandates, governmental legislation, and hyperbole. RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification, a term that describes any system of identification wherein an electronic device that uses radio frequency or magnetic field variations to communicate is attached to an item. The two most talked-about components of an RFID system are the tag, which is the identification device attached to the item one wants to track, and the reader, which is a device that can recognize the presence of RFID tags and read the information stored on them. The reader can then inform another system about the presence of the tagged items.

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Oct 17, 2007
Format: White Papers
Topics: RFID, Mobile - Wireless Communications

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