News tagged with rfid
Playing RFID tag with sheets of paper
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are an essential component of modern shopping, logistics, warehouse, and stock control for toll roads, casino chips and much more. They provide a simple way to track the item to ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Technology tracks birds visiting feeders
To study bird feeding and breeding behavior, ornithologists used to tag birds with colored bands and then painstakingly track the birds' activity. But now, an existing technology repurposed for tracking birds ...
Jan 06, 2012 |
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No more getting lost in the crowd: New technology tracks multiple athletes at once
International sports federations would like to be able to follow the movements of individual athletes more easily during televised matches, even when they're hidden from view. Today, EPFL's Computer Vision ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 07, 2011 |
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The perfect clone: Researchers hack RFID smartcards
Professional safecrackers use a stethoscope to find the correct combination by listening to the clicks of the lock. Researchers at the Ruhr-University Bochum have now demonstrated how to bypass the security mechanisms of ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Tags for studying the spread of epidemics
Participants in a congress were asked to wear a tag for two days in order to study their movements and interactions within a population. The data, collected by a French-Italian team including researchers from ...
Jul 22, 2011 |
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It's simple: increasing complexity of models does not necessarily increase their accuracy
Mathematical modeling of infectious diseases is an important tool in the understanding and prediction of epidemics. Knowledge of social interactions is used to understand how infectious diseases spread through populations ...
Jul 19, 2011 |
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The NutriSmart system would put RFIDs into your food for enhanced information
(PhysOrg.com) -- RFID, short for Radio Frequency ID, tags have found their way into a wide variety of applications. These pellets, which are often roughly the same size as a grain of rice, can help us to be ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 31, 2011 |
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Novel man-made material could facilitate wireless power
Electrical engineers at Duke University have determined that unique man-made materials should theoretically make it possible to improve the power transfer to small devices, such as laptops or cell phones, or ultimately to ...
May 23, 2011 |
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Apple gets two new iPhone-related patents
(PhysOrg.com) -- Apple is spending time with the patent office again, and this time it is for a double header. Apple has been rewarded not one, but two different patents, and they are both related to the iPhone.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Ink with tin nanoparticles could print future circuit boards
(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost all electronic devices contain printed circuit boards, which are patterned with an intricate copper design that guides electricity to make the devices functional. In a new study, researchers ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 12, 2011 |
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Computer scientists develop smart, less obtrusive tracking system
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University at Buffalo and Amrita University in India have developed the framework for a smart environment that can track people's whereabouts without the use of invasive technologies such ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 04, 2011 |
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Surgical instruments with electronic serial numbers
Gone are the days of having to compromise on surgeons' demands because of the limitations associated with metal processing: Laser melting has abolished production-related restrictions on surgical instruments. ...
Feb 28, 2011 |
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Carbon nanotube transistors could lead to inexpensive, flexible electronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, researchers have been developing carbon nanotube-based thin-film transistors (TFTs) in the hopes of creating high-performance, flexible, transparent devices, such as e-paper and ...
Feb 16, 2011 |
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RFID chip monitors blood, sensitive freight
In cooperation with partners, Siemens has developed a system that continuously monitors highly sensitive products with the help of RFID chips. Originally conceived for use with banked blood, the chips are ...
Dec 22, 2010 |
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Go-anywhere tracking of first responders with WIISARD radio-frequency system
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, are hoping that a device the size of a business card will one day reduce the toll of human lives in disaster situations.
Nov 11, 2010 |
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