1. OBJECTIVES History of RFID RFID types and equipment Current uses
Future uses
Advocates for RFID
Advocates against RFID
Current Makers of the RFID chips

2. 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.

3. RFID in the 1800’s RFID’s 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.

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

5. Early 1900’s
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.

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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

11. Current uses continued
Tracking of inventories
Lost or Stolen cars, pets, etc.
Toll tags
GPS phones

12. 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 Driver’s License’s

13. 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

14. Advocates for RFID Wall Mart Target Ambercrombie&Fitch
Other Retailers and Distributors
Makers of the Chip TI
Verichip
Sun Micro systems waveset (light house software)
Department of Defense

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

16. RI-ANT-G04E (Series 2000 Gate Antenna Large)
Is an antenna that can be used for applications such as vehicle access to parking lots in an outdoor environment.
It can also be mounted on a pole or a wall.

17. Advocates Against RFID
Organizations
CASPIAN (consumers against supermarket privacy invasion and numbering)

18. The Problem Fears of being monitored Data security fears
Tracking of consumers on products that have been purchased

19. RFID Protesters

21. RFID tagged currency?

22. Medium Sized Antenna
This is an example of the RFID antenna from TI

23. The rice sized chip

24. RFID medical history

25. BBC Reporter getting an implant

26. An Example of a RFID

27. Type of RFID used by Mobil- the speed pass

28. RFID EXAMPLES

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31. Summary History of RFID RFID types and equipment Current uses
Future uses
Advocates for RFID
Advocates against RFID
Current makers of the RFID

32. Bibliography
“No Chip in Arm, No Shot from Gun.” Wired News 14 April 2004.
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“Tracking Junior with a Microchip.” Wired News 10 October 2003.
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“Getting Product Info on Cue.” Wired News 21 April 2001.
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“Radio ID Tags: Beyond Bar Codes.” Wired News 20 May 2002.
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33. “Call Waiting: A Cell Phone ATM.” Wired News 06 January 2001.
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“RFID Driver’s License Debated.” Wired News 06 October 2004.

34. http://infowars. com/articles/bb/world_cup_2006_surveillance_project
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