As far as wireless technologies go, radio-frequency identification (RFID) is one of the oldest. Patented in 1983 by the late British inventor Charles Walton, RFID made it possible for new, ...

RFID technology company Xerafy has announced the release of two on-metal tags that are no bigger than a grain of rice—tiny enough to be embedded in, or attached to, objects such as surgical and dental ...

Could we be constantly tracked through our clothes, shoes or even our cash in the future? I'm not talking about having a microchip surgically implanted beneath your skin, which is what Applied Digital ...

The benefits of RFID item-level tagging are now common knowledge in the apparel industry, primarily for quick and accurate inventory taking, replacing what could take a whole team a day or two ...

Don't carry RFID? You might be surprised; the short-range ID technology is currently found in everything from US passports to swipeless credit cards to public transit passes to World Cup tickets to ...

Some time ago, Michelin partnered with Beontag, an RFID manufacturer, to add embedded UHF tags to tires in both commercial and passenger vehicles. The main aim is stronger tire traceability, improving ...

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 ...