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June 27, 2010—This month, my company, Orbiter, began installing an RFID asset-tracking system at the LeMay Family Collection Foundation, located in Tacoma, Wash., and home to the nation's largest automobile collection.
A volunteer at the foundation, Bruce Fields, talked with me about the history of the major developments and improvements in the auto industry, from the beginning of the 20th century until the late 1960s.
Quote from : R.F.I.D. Journal : Like the Car Industry, RFID Has Matured
It took until the late 1960s to complete most of the major technology advancements—more than 60 years of development.
This brought to mind the development of radio frequency identification over the years.
In my 16-year history with RFID, changes in the technology have been substantial.
I recall the early years, when software tools, processing power and integrated circuits were all rudimentary.
Over the past two years, improvements in hardware and software have finally made dreamed solutions a reality.
The LeMay collection is a good example of this, as it would have been impossible five years ago to perform the integration easily.
This is because the solution requires a robust handheld RFID reader from Motorola Solutions, and UPM RFID's new long-range DogBone tag.
For the first time, a person standing at ground level can read passive RFID tags attached to the farthest vehicles, stacked three high.
St. Louis: Somark Innovations has announced the successful testing of biocompatible chipless
RFID1 Ink in cattle and laboratory rats. The company says test proved the efficacy of injecting and reading a Biocompatible Chipless RFID Ink “tattoo” within the skin of animals.
The technology will be initially leveraged to the livestock industry to help identify/track cattle and thus mitigate export trade loss from BSE2 (Mad Cow Disease) scares.
Secondary target markets include laboratory animals, dogs & cats, prime cuts of meat and military personnel.
www.foodlogistics.com...$779
Invisible RFID Ink Safe For Cattle And People, Company Says
The process developed by Somark involves a geometric array of micro-needles and an ink capsule, which is used to 'tattoo' an animal. The ink can be detected from 4 feet away.
By K.C. Jones InformationWeek
January 10, 2007 04:49 PM
A startup company developing chipless RFID ink has tested its product on cattle and laboratory rats.
Somark Innovations announced this week that it successfully tested biocompatible RFID ink, which can be read through animal hairs. The passive RFID technology could be used to identify and track cows to reduce financial losses from Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (mad cow disease) scares. Somark, which formed in 2005, is located at the Center for Emerging Technologies in St. Louis. The company is raising Series A equity financing and plans to license the technology to secondary markets, which could include laboratory animals, dogs, cats, prime cuts of meat, and military personnel. www.informationweek.com...
Originally posted by burntheships
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
I can go out on a limb and guess that if ultimatley this RFID "chip" tracking is limited to
cars, and computers, goods and such most people wont care.
If its just an invisible tattoo, thats harmless, and can prevent identity theft, safegaurd your
reputation and your money, prevent kidnapping, abductions and so on and so forth,
its going to be a hard push to come up with a logical excuse to reject it huh?
Yeah, and throw in internet hacking while your at it. The web is closing in, drawing up tight.
I just looked up a few threads here on ATS, and I can see that from the response, folks
just dont care.
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17 flags at the most I found.
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Even the Research Project here has little response.
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edit on 27-6-2011 by burntheships because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by beezzer
You buy leather coats
They scan the items
They innocently ask for your zip code
Suddenly, your email and snail mail is innundated with flyers for leather coats.
Do I have it right?
*shudder*
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
Safeguard our money?
When it so easily and obviously being manipulated by jackasses now in power?
Originally posted by burntheships
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
Safeguard our money?
When it so easily and obviously being manipulated by jackasses now in power?
Yup, for reals man. You know my little list is just the reasons they will give for this being
the better option.
Just imagine, they might even be able to do away with the scanners and patdowns if everyone
has an invisible chipless RFID.
Right?
I mean, they could even do away with terrorism.
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
Leather was just an example. But the point I was trying to make is that they use social engineering in addition to RFID to data-base you.
Just wanted to make sure I was on the right track.