BACKGROUND Radio Frequency Identification(RFID) has been widely used in healthcare facilities, but it has been paid little attention whether RFID applications are safe enough under healthcare environment. The purpose of this study is to assess the effects of RFID tags on Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging in a typical electromagnetic environment in hospitals, and to evaluate the safety of their ap...

The present study offers a methodology to investigate the potential impacts of integrating RFID technology in one specific retail supply chain. Based on empirical data gathered from four tightly interrelated firms from three layers of a supply chain, several scenarios integrating RFID technology have been tested and evaluated. In the context of warehousing activities, the results indicate that ...

Privacy is a major concern in RFID systems, especially with widespread deployment of wireless enabled interconnected personal devices. In this paper, we consider privacy issues in RFID systems where the authorized readers must be able to identify tags without an adversary being able to trace them, and provide a formal security model for privacy in RFID system. Under this model, we analyze the r...

In this letter, 8-bit paper based printable chipless tag is presented. The tag not only justifies the green electronic concept but also it is examined for sensing functionality. The compact tag structure comprises of seven L-shaped and one I-shaped dipole structure. These conducting tracks/dipole structures are of silver nano-particle based ink having a conductivity of 1.1 × 107 S/m. Each condu...

The radio frequency identification (RFID) is a technology for automatic identification of items, particularly in supply chain, but it is becoming increasingly important for industrial applications. Unlike barcode technology that detects the optical signals reflected from barcode labels, RFID uses radio waves to transmit the information from an RFID tag affixed to the physical object. In contras...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems, which basically consist of readers and tags, were originally developed for the identification of tagged objects, as the name RFID implies. Recently, precise positioning and tracking of RFID tags or readers has received considerable attention from both academia and industry. For example, finding the position of RFID tags is an important task in vari...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has recently begun to receive increased interest from both practitioners and academicians due to the well-known mandates to suppliers from major global retailers and the United States (US) Department of Defense. Though the deployment of RFID in the supply chain is relatively new, propriety RFID systems have been utilised in the manufacturing envi...

RFID is currently considered a hot topic in the IT arena. It is described as major enabling technology for automated contact less wireless data collection and as an enabler for the real-time enterprise, a future vision of Enterprise Information Systems. But little is known about the perceived strategic importance of RFID among IT decision makers, current RIFD usage and areas of application or c...

RFID holds the promise of real-time identifying, locating, tracking and monitoring physical objects without line of sight, and can be used for a wide range of pervasive computing applications. To achieve these goals, RFID data have to be collected, transformed and expressively modeled as their virtual counterparts in the virtual world. RFID data, however, have their own unique characteristics –...

Ben Clacy and Brian Jennings presented their recently published paper with the title of “service management: driving the future of IT” [1], which highlighted service oriented is very important. How is the situation of RFID systems? There is a proliferation of RFID systems – tags, sensors, readers, middleware and applications each attempting to solve a specific business need. RFID technology can...