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Marine RFID Security
Applications
30.1 INTRODUCTION
While radio frequency identication (RFID) systems are beginning to be used widely in land-based
logistics systems, their use is much less developed in marine applications. Marine applications that
are currently in existence focus primarily on the tracking of shipping containers on cargo freighters.
In these types of applications, active RFID tags can be used for both customs and storage location
purposes in the same manner as more conventional land-based applications.
However, RFID systems, both now and in the future, have great potential for application with
respect to marine security-rel ...