Military drones, sheep herding drones, delivery drones—a lot of game-changing tech has emerged out of the recent drone boom. And it’s only beginning. Now, drones are being outfitted with radio frequency identification (RFID) to help businesses track inventory. Picture this. A few times a week, a sales manager grabs a clipboard and walks around a…
When the city purchased new trash and recycling bins, each one came with a unique component. It is called a Radio Frequency Identity tag. You may not have seen it, located underneath a black plastic cap, on the hinge of the lid. In some cities, the RFID chip can weigh recycled goods, and citizens are…
The system provides its guests with electronic access control, keyless hotel room entry and cashless purchasing. When hotel guests check-in, they are given a Smart Band RFID Wristband, which serves as their room key, credit card and water park entrance ticket for the duration of their stay. Day guests are also able to purchase water…
The apperance of RFID tags for clothing has vastly improved the speed of data collection, especially in the moving process. The features, like unique ID of information carrier and the fast info reading and store, determine that RFID tags for clothing are able to function more effectively in apparel industry. For better management, Huayuan Smart,…
WITH THE Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in the process of installing biometric devices at the Deonar dumping ground, nearly 1,000 ragpickers will be able to resume their jobs from June onwards. Ragpickers were barred from entering the dumping ground in March following a number of pocket fires. The solid waste management department of the BMC will…
Engineers at North Carolina State University have applied a new technology called RF-only logic to create passive RFID tags that are 25 percent smaller than today’s. And a smaller tag means a cheaper tag. The space savings comes from eliminating a circuit usually considered crucial to the chip’s operation—the rectifier. Passive RFID tags, the most…
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, Disney Research, and MIT have recently come up with new uses for off-the-shelf radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. They are able to develop a new technique and system for processing these RFID tags for practical applications in games, interactive objects and toys, and physical interfaces. The ‘RapID’ system the researchers developed…