This document discusses RFID technology, including its components, types of tags, applications, and future development. It provides details on passive, semi-passive, and active tags. Common applications mentioned are payment systems, logistics/supply chain, toll collection, and access control. The document also describes an online survey on SME opinions of RFID and a conclusion that highlights benefits like contactless reading but notes high costs and developing standards.

1. RFID Application
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2. Workflow
Introduction Future
Applications Survey Results Conclusion
of RFID development
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3. Types of RFID Tags
Passive Tags
Active Tags
Semi-passive Tags
•Use a battery •Contain built-in •Derive their power
•communicate over batteries to power from the field
distances of several the chip’s generated by the
meters circuitry, resist reader
interference and •without having an
circumvent a lack active transmitter
of power from the to transfer the
reader signal due information stored
to long distance.
•They are different
from active tags in
that they only
transmit data at the
time a response is
received
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4. Applications
Frequency Appx. Read Data Speed Cost of Application
Range Tags
Low Frequency <5cm Low High • Animal Identification
(125kHz)
(passive) • Access Control
High Frequency 10 cm – 1m Low to Mediu • Smart Cards
(13.56 Mhz) Moderate m to
(passive) Low • Payment (paywave)
Ultra High 3m -7m Moderate to Low • Logistics and Supply
Frequency (433, High Chain
868-928 Mhz) (passive)
• Baggage Tracking
Microwave (2.45 & 10m -15m High High • Electronic toll collection
5.8 Ghz) (Autotoll)
(passive)
• Container Tracking
20m – 40m
(active)
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5. RFID
• RFID = Radio Frequency Identification
• Electronic labeling and wireless identification of
objects using radio frequency
• Tag carries with its information
o a serial number
o Model number
o Color or any other imaginable data
• When these tags pass through a field generated by
a compatible reader, they transmit this information
back to the reader, thereby identifying the object

6. RFID components
• A basic RFID system consists of these components:
o A programmable RFID tag/inlay for storing item data;
• Consisting of an RFID chip for data storage
• an antenna to facilitate communication with the RFID chip
• A reader/antenna system to interrogate the RFID
inlay
• Application software and a host computer system

7. RFID Tag
• The RFID tag consists of an integrated circuit (IC)
embedded in a thin film medium.
• Information stored in the memory of the RFID chip is
transmitted by the antenna circuit embedded in
the RFID inlay via radio frequencies, to an RFID
reader
• 3 types
o Passive
o Semi-passive
o Active

8. Applications

9. Applications
Credit Cards with RFID
(Paywave function)
Octopus (Smart Card)

10. Applications
Autotoll (Electronic toll collection)
Access Control

11. Online Survey
• Target: SME
• Information: Opinion on RFID and its applications
• Site:
o http://qtrial.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9N5UPRZuyuWtsk4

12. Survey Result

13. Further Development
• In medical uses and library management

14. Video

15. Conclusion
• Positive
o RFID is a contactless reading technology and can read through other
materials
o Hold more data than barcode does
o RFID tags data can be changed or added
o More effective, bring lots of convenience to us
• Negative
o Cost is relatively remain high (compare to barcode)
o RFID signals may have problems with some materials
o RFID standards are still being developed