“The protocol originated with the GTAG program [an RFID initiative once sponsored by UCC-EAN], which formed the basis for the ISO 18000-6A proposed standard,” says Chris Turner, chief technical ...

Tokyo-based RFID hardware provider Omron has added support for the Secure RFID protocol, developed by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), to its Omron V750 series of ...

When UHF RFID tags and communication protocols were designed, the concept of the EPC Network was developed to ensure global interoperability as products moved from manufacturer to distributor to ...

EPC (Electronic Product Code) is simply a number, typically from 64 to 256 bits long, that is being standardized so thousands of trillions of items in the world can be assigned a unique identification ...

RuBee is the commercial name for what is known officially as LWID (Long Wavelength ID), as defined by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ (IEEE). The moniker was given to the ...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a method of remotely storing and retrieving data using devices called RFID tags/transponders. An RFID tag is a small object, such as an adhesive sticker, that ...

February 12, 2008 — RFID Journal, the world's leading media and events company covering radio frequency identification (RFID), and EPCglobal North America, a not-for-profit member organization ...

WASHINGTON - In a new report, the Grocery Manufacturers Association here is proposing a three-tiered approach to RFID implementation that it believes increases the chances of success by encouraging ...

In the previous article, “The principles of RFID: Active Tags,” we discussed a classification of RFID tag called the active tag. Even though the active tag has many applications, it does not get as ...