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OBJECTIVES

• History of RFID
• RFID types and equipment
• Current uses
• Future uses
• Advocates for RFID
• Advocates against RFID
• Current Makers of the RFID chips

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

• RFID is the combination of radio broadcast
  technology and the radar.
• RFID increases productivity and convenience
• It is used for over hundreds of applications
• Preventing theft of automobiles, collecting tolls
  without stopping, managing traffic, gaining
  entrance to buildings, automated parking, etc.

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RFID in the 1800s

• RFIDs source of energy comes from electromagnets
• Electromagnets formed from the Big Bang
• It is a microwave hiss of energy
• Michael Faraday, an English experimentalist,
  proposed in 1846 that both light and radio waves
  are a part of electromagnetic energy.

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• Hertz was credited as the 1st to transmit and
  receive radio waves, in 1887.
• In 1896, Guglielmo Marconi successfully
  transmitted radiotelegraphy across the Atlantic.

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Early 1900s

• Ernst F. W. Alexanderson demonstrated the 1st
  transmission of radio waves
• Signals the beginning of modern radio, where all
  aspects of the radio waves were controlled.
• From 1922 into World War II, the radar was being
  invented.
• Created as a technical development of the
  Manhattan Project Los Alamos Scientific
  Laboratory, and was critical to the Allies.

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• 1940 through 1950
• Radar refined and used, major WW II development
  effort.
• RFID was invented in 1948
• 1950 through 1960
• Early explorations of RFID technology, laboratory
  experiments
• 1960 through 1970
• Development of the theory of RFID
• Start of applications field trials

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• 1970 through 1980
• Explosion of RFID development
• Test of RFID accelerate
• Very early adopter implementations
• 1980 through 1990
• Commercial applications of RFID enter mainstream
• 1990 to 2000
• Emergence of standards
• RFID widely deployed
• RFID becomes a part of everyday life

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• RFID can act as a portable, dynamic databases
  that can carry information to be used and
  updated. W/R capabilities.
• RFID has larger memory capacities, wider reading
  ranges, and faster processing than bar codes
• Unlike bar codes, RFID has non-line-of-site data
  transmission.
• RFID should eventually replace the bar code
  system.

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• CueCat
• Barcodes are scanned through CueCat to the
  computer, to automatically bring up product
  information
• CueJack
• A software that helps consumers learn about
  boycotts, safety recall, and questionable
  corporate practices
• Scans its information from news stories, pressure
  groups, consumer activists, and disgruntled
  individuals.

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Current Uses of RFID

• As a tracking device for missing or kidnapped
  children.
• Promoted in Mexico where 133,000 children have
  been abducted over the past 5 years
• A rice-sized microchip is injected beneath the
  skin
• Portals will be placed in malls, bus stations,
  etc. where the missing children may appear

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Current uses continued

• Tracking of inventories
• Lost or Stolen cars, pets, etc.
• Toll tags
• GPS phones

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The Future of RFID

• Law enforcement
• A tiny chip will be implanted in the officers
  hand and into firearms which are assigned the
  officers.
• If the chip scans correctly, a digital signal
  will allow the gun to fire.
• If not, the gun will remained locked.

• ATM cell phones
• Expected to hit stores before June
• RFID Drivers Licenses

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• Increases the ability to track and account for
  inventory.
• Breakthroughs in medicine.
• Security advancements.
• Ease of shopping
• Online targeting of Customers.
• GPS tracking of anything tagged.
• AD-ID a web based system that assigns codes to
  properties
• The super RFID Chip

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Advocates for RFID

• Wall Mart
• Target
• AmbercrombieFitch
• Other Retailers and Distributors
• Makers of the Chip
• TI
• Verichip
• Sun Micro systems waveset (light house software)
• Department of Defense

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• Commercial packages
• RFID tags consists of silicon chips and an
  antenna that can transmit data to wireless
  receiver
• Some examples of RFID kits.

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Advocates Against RFID

• Organizations
• www.spychips.com
• www.spychips.org
• www.nocards.com
• www.nocards.org
• CASPIAN (consumers against supermarket privacy
  invasion and numbering)

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The Problem

• Fears of being monitored
• Data security fears
• Tracking of consumers on products that have been
  purchased

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RFID Protesters
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RFID tagged currency?
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Medium Sized Antenna

• This is an example of the RFID antenna from TI

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The rice sized chip
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RFID medical history
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BBC Reporter getting an implant
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An Example of a RFID
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Type of RFID used by Mobil- the speed pass
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RFID EXAMPLES
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Summary

• History of RFID
• RFID types and equipment
• Current uses
• Future uses
• Advocates for RFID
• Advocates against RFID
• Current makers of the RFID

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