Electronic Labeling
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Description
Electronic labels, so-called passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, also operate without a built-in source of power – they collect the energy they require to operate from the magnetic or electro-magnetic field emitted by a reader device. Depending on their construction, these labels are less than a square millimeter in area and thinner than a piece of paper. What is interesting about such remote-inquiry electronic markers is that they enable objects to be clearly identified and recognized, and therefore linked in real time to an associated data record held on the Internet or in a remote database. This ultimately means that specific data and information processing methods can be related to any kind of object.
With the emerging Near Field Communication (NFC) standard, mobile phones and other handheld electronic devices will be able to read RFID labels at short distances. The goal is to enable users to access content and services in an intuitive way by simply touching an object that has a smart label.
Ref. Wireless Future: Ubiquitous Computing
Enablers
Inhibitors
- production costs
- incompatible standards
- privacy issues
- technological challenges in ensuring interlinked communications