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NXP has created a read-write chip for high-volume RFID tag applications complying to Rain Alliance standards for UHF passive tags. It is Branded ‘Ucode X’ and delivered in wafer form.

Mr. Bo Gao has over 5 year R&D experience in UHF RFID development and extensive industrial exposures in UHF RFID application. He has over 10 technical publications on UHF RFID technology. Currently, ...

Sensor-based passive RFID tags have been on the market for just a few years, but according to U.K.-based market-research firm IDTechEx, they have accomplished sufficient growth in niche markets that ...

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 ...

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Sunnyvale startup Wirama announced that they've finished the most precise RFID reader available yet, with the ability to locate passive RFID tags to within 6 inches (through the EPC Class 1 Gen 2 ...

Active RFIDwhere the battery is not used to enhance range. The battery may manage encryption via a microprocessor, data management, recording information gathered by sensors and so on. Semi-passive ...

A research team at North Carolina State University has used a building ventilation duct to at least triple the normal distance that radio waves emitted from passive RFID tags can travel over open ...

Technology has matured to commercial availability, data standards are close to approval, and by year’s end Airbus and Boeing could be instructing suppliers to put radio-frequency identification (RFID) ...