RFID systems have the potential to revolutionize and affect a wide variety of industries and applications. At the same time it still faces several hurdles in its adoption. Tag anti-collision is one such significant performance issue in RFID systems which determine the identification speed. This paper presents the performance comparison and analysis of the standardized ISO 18000-3 Mode 1, ISO 18...

BACKGROUND Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an emerging technology that is rapidly becoming the standard for hospitals to track inventory, identify patients, and manage personnel. METHODS Research involved qualitative methods including participant observation and interviews with hospital staff members and industry consultants in the United States. RESULTS Hospital staff, especially ...

Many efforts were made in the last years in order to develop new techniques for mobile objects identification, location and tracking. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are a possible solution to this problem. There are many different practical implementations of such systems, based on the use of radio waves from low frequencies to high frequencies. In this chapter we present a short...

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a technology that uses radio frequency signals for purposes of identification and tracking of objects, humans or animals. In passive RFID systems, where tags reuse the energy radiated by the reader, coordination capabilities can be considerably limited [29]. This issue leads to conflicts or collisions between the transmissions of the different elements o...

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...

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 technology is one of automatic identification technologies. In current RFID systems, RFID data are managed and processed by a middleware. In the near future, when RFID technology will be applied to large scale warehouses, airports, or seaports, it is necessary that wireless sensors integrated a RFID reader construct wireless sensor network because of difficulties of building wired network...

Recently, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has received considerable attention and is considered to be the next wave of information technology revolution. The number of RFID applications in different industries is increasing continuously. Cumulative sales of RFID tag is up in 2006 which shows RFID adoption trend in industries to improve their efficiency of operations and to gain a competit...

The Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) landscape has been radically changing since decades. It has been widely deployed by commercial and industrial organizations as well as government agencies with a wide range of applications. The RFID technology makes it possible to identify an object, to track it and learn its characteristics remotely, thanks to a label emitting radio waves, integrated o...