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Lessons Learned from RFID Field Test

Posted by Hemos on from the testing-it-out-in-the-real-world dept.

muddy_mudskipper writes "From John Young's cryptome.org website, is a newly posted pdf copy of the "Lessons Learned from RFID Field Test" as compiled by the Field Test Program Manager of the Auto ID Center. It is interesting to note the photographs of the different passive RFID antennas that could be used in product packaging - some small enough to fit into a soap box. Also curious is how many sector antennas have to pepper the test center in order to approach 100% RFID readability. 'In March 2001 a team comprised of Auto-ID Center sponsors (technology & end users) was assembled to plan and implement a Field Test aimed at taking the Auto-ID EPC technology from the laboratory to the real world environment with the objective of proving the power and effectiveness of the EPC and to blaze a trail for future adoption' "

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  1. 2 lessons by metlin · · Score: 0, Troll


    Lesson 1: RFIDs screw your privacy

    Lesson 2: Lesson 1 is always true.

  2. In Soviet London... by ecloud · · Score: 0, Troll

    everybody's watching you, not just Big Brother. I mean, there is the world's highest density of street surveillance cameras, right? And the well-known snoopy journalists and paparrazi? and those damned speed-tracking and automatic citation systems - nobody else is quite so thorough about that yet.

    Orwell's 1984 and the movie Brazil are both very distinctively English, probably for good reason.

    So I always assume that London is going to continue to be the leader in the transition to a world devoid of privacy. (And the USA may be right behind, the way things are going. Or maybe Australia.)

    Not that I don't still want to visit the UK someday. :-)