RFID
Radio Frequency Identification
TRANSLATION
RFID = Abk. für Radio Frequency Identification --- GOOGLE INDEX RFID: approximately 21,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
We are hoping the RFID tags will help us to find out how bees, with their small brains, can find optimal or near optimal solutions to finding the shortest routes between flowers.
(BBC News)
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St. John's Children's Hospital, located in Springfield, Ill., is employing an RFID-enabled security system to protect newborns and children up to 18 years of age in its care.
(RFID Journal)
(BBC News)
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St. John's Children's Hospital, located in Springfield, Ill., is employing an RFID-enabled security system to protect newborns and children up to 18 years of age in its care.
(RFID Journal)
Did you
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RFID
acronym
- radio frequency identification
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000)
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WORD ORIGIN
RFID (radio frequency identification) is a method of identifying unique items using radio waves. Typically, a reader communicates with a tag, which holds digital information in a microchip. But there are chipless forms of RFID tags that use material to reflect back a portion of the radio waves beamed at them.
RFID is used by nearly every industry in the world these days. This includes retail, pharma, manufacturing, logistics, health care, defence and aerospace to name just a few. The applications are too numerous to mention here. Think of anything that needs to be tracked, however, and there is a good chance that RFID technology would be a suitable technology. Take children for instance.
The days when anxious parents feverishly run from room to room looking for their kids may be over. Lauren Scott of California offers a line of kid's pyjamas sewn with RFID tags. Readers placed in a house scan the tags within a 30-foot radius and trigger an alarm if boundaries are breached. Considering how active kids can be, it's not clear how long your typical parent will listen to the constant alarms before putting those old pyjamas back on again.
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"You may not realize it, but nearly all major retail stores use RFID in one way or another."
acronym
- radio frequency identification
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000)
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WORD ORIGIN
RFID (radio frequency identification) is a method of identifying unique items using radio waves. Typically, a reader communicates with a tag, which holds digital information in a microchip. But there are chipless forms of RFID tags that use material to reflect back a portion of the radio waves beamed at them.
RFID is used by nearly every industry in the world these days. This includes retail, pharma, manufacturing, logistics, health care, defence and aerospace to name just a few. The applications are too numerous to mention here. Think of anything that needs to be tracked, however, and there is a good chance that RFID technology would be a suitable technology. Take children for instance.
The days when anxious parents feverishly run from room to room looking for their kids may be over. Lauren Scott of California offers a line of kid's pyjamas sewn with RFID tags. Readers placed in a house scan the tags within a 30-foot radius and trigger an alarm if boundaries are breached. Considering how active kids can be, it's not clear how long your typical parent will listen to the constant alarms before putting those old pyjamas back on again.
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"You may not realize it, but nearly all major retail stores use RFID in one way or another."
