Radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled devices are becoming increasingly common, facilitating many things from supply chain efficiencies to equipment tracking. Although there is a growing body of research on RFID systems, few studies address implementations that involve both public and private sectors. This paper outlines the results of a qualitative study that identified ten key cross-s...

RFID is a well-known pervasive technology, which provides promising opportunities for the implementation of new services and for the improvement of traditional ones. However, pervasive environments require strong efforts on all the aspects of information security. Notably, RFID passive tags are exposed to attacks, since strict limitations affect the security techniques for this technology. A cr...

Metamaterials (Marques et al., 2008; Eleftheriades & Balmain, 2005; Herraiz-Martinez et al. 2009) are one of the many new technologies being adopted to improve the performance of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems (Finkenzeller, 2003; Stupf et al., 2007). In particular, metamaterial-based antenna designs are being used more frequently to improve the read range and reduce the size of ...

An RFID system is a tracking and tracing system, and is useful for the management of various items and animals in a supply chain, animal husbandry and so on. According to a Japanese investigation firm, the number of RFID tags in Japan will increase rapidly from 51 million in 2007 to 1.7 billion in 2012 (Yano Research Institute, 2008). In RFID systems, RFID tags, which have unique IDs, are attac...

APPLICATIONS OF AUTOIDENTIfication technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) in everyday life include security access cards, electronic toll collection, and antitheft clips in retail clothing. RFID applications in health care have received increasing attention because of the potentially positive effect on patient safety and also on tracking and tracing of medical equipment and ...

Micropayment systems are the electronic payment systems used to make small value payments. In these systems the technology used is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) which offers number of advantages over other current technologies in use in payment systems. Number of the benefits offered by RFID technology has attracted business and authorities for its use. But the recent security researche...

Change of tag ownership compromises the security goals of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). When an attacker clones or steals an authorized subject’s tag, they are willingly granted access as RFID assumes the owner of a tag is always the authorized entity. We present Deckard, a new approach to preventing change of tag ownership. Deckard uses the principles of intrusion detection to look fo...

Internet of Things” (IoT) requires information to be collected from “anything”, “anytime”, and “anywhere”. In order to achieve this, wireless devices are required that have (1) automatic data acquisition capability, (2) small size, (3) long life, and (4) long range communication capability. One way to meet these requirements is to adopt active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems. Acti...

The increasing number of deployed RFID systems and the resulting need for fast recognition of a given amount of RFID tags puts great demand on future RFID readers. Applications requesting for a fast capture of RFID tags are mainly found in logistic and manufacturing processes. Imagine trucks driving through large RFID gates, where each RFID tagged package or even item has to be identified. Also...

RFID technology is an area currently undergoing active development. An issue, which has received a lot of attention, is the security risks that arise due to the inherent vulnerabilities of RFID technology. Most of this attention, however, has focused on related privacy issues. The goal of this chapter is to present a more global overview of RFID threats. This can not only help experts perform r...