Blog on RFID Technology and Application

For the past few years, I have been receiving e-mails from outraged Americans who want to know why the Affordable Care Act (a. k. a. Obamacare) requires them to be implanted with a radio frequency identification transponder. Sometimes, they want to know how to deactivate it, and sometimes, they just assail me for supporting this technology.

As a user of RFID technology, I have run into an unfortunately very common problem with many of the vendors of RFID products—their customer service and technical support is extremely, frustratingly, aggravatingly poor.

This week, Zebra Technologies launched an interesting social-media contest known as "Imagine More." The contest, being run on Zebra's Facebook page, challenges the general public to submit ideas about how radio frequency identification technology might be used to solve "anything from a simple household problem to a global social issue."

A few days ago, I had a conversation with Christopher Wright, the chief operations officer at Gain ICs, an integrated circuit design company based in Colorado. He was all fired up about Gain ICs' technology that, if added to a passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID chip, promises to dramatically increase wireless data transmission speeds, read range and tag sensitivity, as well as enable RFID tags to be as inexpensive to deploy as printed bar codes.

Rich Handley, RFID Journal's managing editor, sent me a link to an article on Sporting News, a website focused on U.S. sports. The article was titled "RFID technology can change the fan experience for the better." 

In my last blog post, I discussed the mindset necessary to be a successful marketer of radio frequency identification at the current stage of the technology's adoption life cycle (see The RFID Marketer's Mindset).

After deploying an educational scavenger hunt that tasks young visitors with saving the world from evildoers, the Children's Museum of Houston has seen its membership increase by 20 to 30 percent.

Radio Frequency identification (RFID) has a lot of applications in this modern era, which are extensively spread in all the fields. RFID is one of the most applied technologies in all the aspects of the identification processes.

Radio Frequency identification (RFID) is a ground-breaking technology available today.  In simpler terms it is such technology which is used for the identification of objects using radio waves.

Radio frequency identification or RFID is an enabling technology, which means it does not offer much worth on its own, but it allows companies to enlarge applications that create a price.

NFC (an acronym for “Near Field Communication”), as the name suggests, enables short range communication among compatible devices. It requires minimum one transmitting device & the other to receive the signal.

NFC is one of the highly advantageous technologies available today. The NFC (Near Field Communication) feature that we have in our smart phones has actually advanced from another revolutionary technology which is known as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification).