Tag: RFID

Faregates are coming to the Vancouver transit system. It comes in the form of a RFID card where one need to tap in/out. It would be a pain if one needed to fish their transit card out of their wallet every time they crossed a faregate. Ideally one could just tap their whole wallet to ta...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) uses readers and tags to transfer data via radio waves. A reader can communicate with a tag some distance away (between a few centimeters and 20 meters, depending on the type of RFID). Active RFID tags have batteries, which they can tap to send information to a ...

Counterfeit products undermine both the confidence of consumers and brand image, as well as the revenues of industries such as fashion and electronic products as well as pharmaceuticals, and luxury merchandise. RFID technology presents a strong (non-cloneable), real-time authentication layer that gi...