RFID Technology in Our Daily Lives

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RFID technology is a part of all of our everyday lives. From credit cards to medial equipment like pacemakers; from shipping crates on huge transatlantic carriers to tags in items you might buy in any store to prevent theft. This technology plays a huge part in our lives, and most of us don’t even know it exists. A brief history of RFID Technology RFID technology first got widespread attention during World War II. The 30’s and 40’s marked the era of radar communication and telegraph in the western world, and was relied upon heavily by the Allied powers. The British Royal Air Force was the first to recognize the use of radar to distinguish friendly from enemy aircraft. This system, called Identify Friend/Foe (IFF), was successfully used to track aircraft used by the allies to prevent friendly fire reduce the risk of surprise attacks on the main lad of England. This technology is still used today by modern militaries all around the world, in a more advanced fashion, of course. Other than uses in IFF systems during WWII, RFID technology as we think of it now didn’t really get off the ground until the 1960’s. A research and development boom in the 1970’s pushed the RFID technology out into the everyday world, which is seen all around us today. There were several notable inventors during the time period between the 60’s and 70’s. R.F. Harrington, being on of them, studied the electromagnetic theories related to how modern passive RFID systems operate. His theory, called the “Theory of Loaded Scatterers” , was a device that used scattered radio patterns, similar to Morse Code, to track objects. Robert Richardson and J.H. Vogelman also developed similar theories, both based on passive data transmission via radio or radar signals. T... ... middle of paper ... ...am: O'Reilly, 2005. Safari Tech Books Online. Web. 16 Feb. 2013. Landt, J. "The History of RFID." IEEE Potentials 24.4 (2005): 8-11. 2005. Web. 16 Feb. 2013. . Thornton, Frank, Anand M. Das, Brad Haines, Hersh Bhargava, Anita Campbell, and John Kleinschmidt. RFID Security. Rockland, MA: Syngress, 2006. Safari Tech Books Online. Web. 16 Feb. 2013. United States. Congress. House. RFID Technology: What the Future Holds for Commerce, Security, and the Consumer : Hearing before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, July 14, 2004. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2004. Print. Want, R. "An Introduction to RFID Technology." IEEE Pervasive Computing 5.1 (2006): 25-33. Print.

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