The attention on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Mobile Business and Mobile Content has recently attracted in various industry sectors, the media and in academic research. This article focuses on the convergence of RFID technologies and mobile devices and presents applications in the retail business. Based on related literature and existing models and technologies, a business framework a...

Recognizing radio frequency identification (RFID) as a disruptive technology unearths interesting facts that could help managers decide how to approach their RFID projects. RFID for the supply chain (RFID/SC) has attracted global attention and the adoption pace is quickening. It has characteristics resembling that of a disruptive technology. To better understand RFID/SC, we use Christensen’s pr...

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...

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is an automatic identification system, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data about objects we want to manage using devices called “RFID tag”. Even though RFID system is widely useful for industrial and individual applications, RFID tag has a serious privacy problem, i.e., traceability. To protect users from tracing, we propose an RFID mutual authe...

Introduction Contactless RFID technology holds promise for object tracking, supply chain, smart payment and security management. Most RFID systems have their own unique hardware and software interfaces and are therefore are not readily available in the plug and play mode. At UCLAWINMEC, we have developed a unique RFID middleware platform and this platform is being implemented in software to mak...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology for automated identification of objects and people. RFID systems have been gaining more popularity in areas especially in supply chain management and automated identification systems. However, there are many existing and potential problems in the RFID systems which could threat the technology’s future. To successfully adopt RFID technology i...

RFID projects have been deployed in many enterprises profoundly. From the perspective of architecture, a RFID application system includes three parts: hardware, software and middleware. The hardware consists of RFID readers, tags and antennas. Software refers to the enterprise management information system which has been operated for a long time. Middleware is the most time-consuming part. How ...

Developing RFID based applications is a painstakingly difficult endeavor. The difficulties include nonstandard software and hardware peripherals from vendors, interoperability problems between different operating systems as well as lack of expertise in terms of low-level programming for RFID (i.e. steep learning curve). In order to address these difficulties, a reusable RFIDTM API (RFID Trackin...

An ultra-low power embedded CMOS temperature sensor based on serially connected subthreshold MOS operation is implemented in a 0.18 m CMOS process for passive RFID food monitoring applications. Employing serially connected subthreshold MOS as sensing element enables reduced minimum supply voltage for further power reduction, which is of utmost importance in passive RFID applications. Both propo...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology enables a new era of business optimization. RFID provides capturing large volumes of data at high velocity and can be used for identifying, locating, tracking and monitoring physical objects without line of sight. However, despite these benefits, this technology poses many new challenges in the current data processing and management systems. RFID...