We present an interdisciplinary effort to record feeding behaviors and control the diet of a hummingbird species (Phaethornis longirostris, the long-billed hermit or LBH) by developing a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based smart feeder. The system contains an RFID reader, a microcontroller, and a servo-controlled hummingbird feeder opener; the system is presented as a tool for studying ...

This study designed a radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based Internet of Things (IoT) platform to create the core of a smart nest box. At the sensing level, we have deployed RFID-based sensors and egg detection sensors. A low-frequency RFID reader is installed in the bottom of the nest box and a foot ring RFID tag is worn on the leg of individual hens. The RFID-based sensors detect when a ...

Recently, the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has gained significant attention. One of the important performance issues in RFID systems is to resolve the collision among responses from RFID tags from the viewpoint of wireless media access control. We consider two kinds of smart antenna systems to enhance the RFID tag reading rate, namely the adaptive array antenna and the multi...

This research paper describes the automated toll collection system for tollgate based on SMART card technology. Most of the toll collection system is in manual transaction. Nowadays, there is a huge rush in toll plaza in order to pay the toll tax. It results in traffic jam, fuel waste and time waste. The objective of this paper is to transform manual transaction to automated toll collection sys...

Industrial and consumer applications of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) are explored. The state-of-the-art and development in RFID technology is reviewed. A currently operative smart parts based manufacturing system is described which uses RFID as the key technology. The role of RFID in the emerging Wireless Internet Manufacturing field is highlighted.

Datastreams are potentially infinite sources of data that flow continuously while monitoring a physical phenomenon, like temperature levels or other kind of human activities, such as clickstreams, telephone call records, and so on. RFID technology has lead in recent years the generation of huge streams of data. Moreover, RFID based systems allow the effective management of items tagged by RFID ...

Recently, Radio frequency identification (RFID) has been an important and ubiquitous infrastructure technology for smart work system. As RFID tags are affixed to all items, they may be used to support various useful services. Security mechanisms for RFID systems, such as authentication and encryption, are therefore of utmost importance. However, there are many risks involved, for example user p...

Recently, there have been widely conducted researches on dual-band radio frequency identification (RFID) tag based on 13.56 MHz (HF) and 900 MHz (UHF). Most dual-band RFID tag has been implemented so that each antenna is separated in a different inlay sheet respectively, which makes the resulting smart card impractically thick, and the typical drawback of dual-band RFID tags incorporated in one...

We argue that sensing and computation platforms that leverage RFID technology can realize “smart-dust” applications that have eluded the sensor network community. RFID sensor networks (RSNs), which consist of RFID readers and RFID sensor nodes (WISPs), extend RFID to include sensing and bring the advantages of small, inexpensive and long-lived RFID tags to wireless sensor networks. We describe ...

In recent years more and more security sensitive applications use passive smart devices such as contactless smart cards and RFID tags. Cost constraints imply a small hardware footprint of all components of a smart device. One particular problem of all passive smart devices such as RFID tags and contactless smart cards are the harsh power constraints. On the other hand, active smart devices have...