Chapter 5. Conclusion
Despite what some authors would have you think, RFID is pretty far from being a “big brother” technology. The “identity” of each RFID tag is just a number. What you do with that information is up to you. There is no single universal RFID protocol, nor are there readers that can read every tag out there. There’s no secret database somewhere that holds all the RFID numbers and associates them with the things they’re attached to, or worse, the people who own those things. To make RFID meaningful, you have to build your own database associating the tags you distribute with the objects to which you attach them, and you have to make sure that you’re using readers that can read that particular brand of tag. The range of passive ...
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