How to Cheat at Deploying and Securing RFID

Chapter 4. Working with Interrogation Zones

Solutions in this chapter:

• Understanding an Interrogator

• Dealing With Dense Environments

• Configuring Interrogation Zones

• Optimizing Interrogation Zones

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Introduction

An RFID system is based on communication between an interrogator and a tag. The tag is attached to an item that needs to be identified and tracked, and it contains the information about the item such as its identification. The interrogator’s job is to collect that information from the tag and send the information to a host computer, ...