This document provides an overview of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology, including its history, components, and applications. It discusses how RFID systems work using radio waves to transfer data between tags and readers without requiring line of sight. The key components are RFID tags, which contain microchips and antennas, and RFID readers, which can read multiple tags simultaneously. Example applications mentioned include access control for people and vehicles, security/anti-theft, and location tracking. While RFID provides advantages like automatic identification of many items at once, challenges include lack of standards and high initial costs.
2. Outline
RFID History
What is RFID?
-RFID System Components
RFID Tag
-Type of Tag
-Tag block diagram
RFID Reader
Future
RFID advantage
RFID disadvantage
Applications
Conclusion
RFID-2013
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3. RFID History
First Bar code patents 1930s
First use of RFID device 2nd world war
Brittan used RFID-like technology for IdentifyFriend.
First RFID Patent - 1973
Auto-ID center founded at MIT 1999
Current thrust primarily driven by Wal-Mart.
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4. What is RFID?
RFID = Radio Frequency IDentification.
An ADC (Automated Data Collection) technology
that:
uses radio-frequency waves to transfer data between
a reader and a movable item to identify, categorize,
track.
does not require physical sight between reader and
the tagged item.
Performs the operation using low cost components.
Other ADC technologies: Bar codes, OCR.
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6. RFID tags
An RFID tag is a microchip combined with an
antenna in a compact package.
RFID tags can be very small.
Tags can be attached to almost anything:
Items, cases of products, high value goods
vehicles, assets, livestock or personnel
7. Types of Tags
Passive Tags
Do not require power Draws from Interrogator Field
Lower storage capacities (few bits to 1 KB)
Usually Write-Once-Read-Many/Read-Only tags
Cost around 25 cents to few dollars
Active Tags
Battery powered
Higher storage capacities (512 KB)
Typically can be re-written by RF Interrogators
Cost around 50 to 250 dollars
8. RFID readers
Reader functions:
Remotely power tags
Establish a bidirectional data link
Inventory tags, filter results
Communicate with networked server(s)
Can read 100-300 tags per second
Readers (interrogators) can be at a fixed point such as
Entrance/exit
Point of sale
9. RFID Antennas:
Gate antennas
Patch antennas
Circular polarized
Di-pole antennas
Linear polarized
10. The future:
RFID:
Driving intelligence to edge
of Enterprise networks
Analog sensors
replaced with cheap
digital sensors: Motes, etc
Enterprise Management Systems
adapted to more effectively react in real-time to data.
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11. RFID advantages
Multiple items can be read with a single scan
Each tag can carry a lot of data (read/write)
Individual items identified and not just the
category
Passive tags have a virtually unlimited lifetime
Active tags can be read from great distances
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12. RFID disadvantage
Lack of industry and application standards
High cost per unit and high RFID system
integration costs
Weak market understanding of the
benefits of RFID technology
13. RFID applications
Access control for people;
-Secure access to work place
-Access to travel on train
Access control for vehicle;
-Secure access on site
-Istant payment of fuel.
Security
Access control
Counterfeiting and Theft control/prevention
Location Tracking
Traffic movement control and parking management
Wildlife/Livestock monitoring and tracking
14. CONCLUSION
RFID benefits are due to automation and optimization.
RFID is not a plug & play technology.
Awarneness of RFID technology.
Technology is evolving but physics has limitations.