Even ThingMagic , an RFID technology provider in Boston, never expected 2005 to be the year of RFID.
The Scrabble board consists of nine RFID circuit boards that house 225 RFID antennas, which read each individual Scrabble square.
When smaller retailers talk about adopting RFID, many of the suppliers are pushing back, refusing to take on any more new RFID projects, says Gaughan.
The hype surrounding RFID adoption is a direct result of large retailers like Wal-Mart Stores and the U.S. Department of Defense mandating that their suppliers adopt RFID, says Dennis Gaughan, a research director with AMR Research and author of the report.
What they used is a two way RFID chip, and they designed a reader, a really low cost wireless reader that would work with any device, and they created 32 unique characters that had these RFID chips in them.
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Each Scrabble letter tile has its own uniquely identifiable RFID tag embedded within (100 in total), with an RFID circuit board enclosed in each of the players tile racks to ensure that all information is captured and showcased to the online viewers.
He had his first chip installed in 2005 by a doctor client of his IT services firm, and has since become one of a few vocal RFID body implant evangelists, chronicling his experiences with the chip on his website and in a book, RFID Toys.
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The hype surrounding RFID adoption is a direct result of large retailers like Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) and the U.S. Department of Defense mandating that their suppliers adopt RFID, says Dennis Gaughan, a research director with AMR Research and author of the report.
We were a little wary at the first when we heard about tying RFID so closely to our monies, and that Chase Bank blink card of ours has been collecting dust ever since it showed up in the mail, but the latest failings of RFID "security" have us running for the hills -- tin foil hat in tow.
Industry mandates to use RFID affect manufacturers and suppliers and encouraged established tech firms to pursue the market.
That's the idea behind NutriSmart -- a food tracking system that revolves around edible RFID tags.
Would each individual person affect the RFID tag's radio signal in a unique way?
Those same RFID systems enable retailers to monitor activity and re-order without any human interaction.
Hello to RFID and all its speed, accuracy and increased visibility of product availability.
Wouldn't be the first time we've abandoned RFID passport plans due to technology concerns.
The chip itself uses a technology called RFID to send information back and forth.
TfL also operates the Oyster smartcard scheme which uses an earlier RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology.
Even once effective RFID chips are in place on drug packaging, other problems may arise.
She refused to wear it even after the school had offered to remove the RFID chip.
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The biggest potential for the technique lies in the production of RFID tags, however.
The Beijing Olympics organizers printed RFID tags on 14 million tickets that were read by 1, 000 readers.
The drugmaker has invested heavily in high-tech RFID tags that trace its products from supplier to manufacturer.
They also plan to deploy more Radio Frequency ID (RFID) technology throughout their operations to manage inventory.
In order to do that, the company will switch from traditional bar coded tags to RFID tags.
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With advances in RFID, miniaturization and analytics, M2M makes the Internet of Things an increasingly tangible possibility.
Alliance Tech claims its system is the first radio-frequency identification (RFID) system to track trade show and conference-goers.
In this article for Wired Magazine Bruce Sterling suggests that RFID-tagged items will take on new properties.
In AMR s survey, Gaughan saw some backlash against RFID as a result of the accelerated adoption spurred by industry requirements.
Of companies that bet on early adoption of RFID, he says he wouldn t like to be one of them.
D. became a leading center of RFID (radio frequency identification) research and how Cornell University in little Ithaca, N.
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