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Lessons Learned from RFID Field Test
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' "
One thing to look out for is the resonant frequency. We were trying to use RFID tags inside professional tape decks, to tell which tape was currently in the decl - it was an asset management project.
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:-) Always read the small print....
the only useful (in terms of range) RFID tags at the time (18 months ago now) were resonant at 13.5 MHz, which is very very close to the colour burst frequency of PAL TV... not ideal for the inside of a Pro. tape deck
Complete redesign, readers outside and having to motion sensors to detect the tape's direction (if it was going in or out) delayed us quite considerably
Simon.
Physicists get Hadrons!
RAID strikes again!
Contgradulations!! Big Brother is watching YOU.
Why does this have to be brought up every time something comes out about RFID tags? If "Big Brother" cared enough about you to track you, they would bring up your credit/debit card purchases and find everything about you that an RFID tag would tell them. You know that cell phone you carry around? Your position can be determined quite easily from that. Existing technology allows anyone to track you already. Anonimity has already been traded for convenience.
Don't worry though, nobody is watching and tracking you as an individual. Truth be told, Big Brother just doesn't care about you.
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Squirrel
As far as I know, systems with reasonable range aren't cheap. I'm not sure any system works well when attached to metal tools.
But the icky issue, is that I want to be able to track my stuff, but I don't want everyone else to be able to track my stuff.
I'd like to try tagging the stuff I lose around the yard and house. Since I would assign the tags, there wouldn't be many privacy issues. People with scanners would know how many things I tagged, but not what they are.
So, are there any affordable systems? How about affordable systems that can quickly scan a room (where is the remote now?). Where can I get them?
[The article was already slashdotted, so I have no idea what it is about.]
I like how they tried to obscure the "Gillette Venus" printed on the boxes in the PDF file but the overlay image doesn't appear until the picture is completely loaded.
Gillette doesn't want us to know that the tests are being conducted either with their cooperation or on their behalf.
Ooops. Foiled by the PDF.
- Hail to our fearless misleader! Fool speed ahead!
What we need now are edible RFID tags which fast food franchises can put in their happy meals and which will lodge in the gut of their consumers.
:)
This way, as soon as one of them waddles into their store, ones favorite happy meal will be ready for you by the time you get to the counter!!!
Convenience!!!
That will be double plus good!
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Its a us federal sponsorred initiative to track vehicles near certain highways feeding certain urban areas.
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basically the fbi enters a rfid number into the database and then history of travel for the car pops up.
the feds can also pre-enter rfids they want to watch after getting a reading off your parked car or from the canadian-us customs border (where they already actively log the car rfids in the tires and associate them with plates)
Your tires have a passive coil with 64 to 128 bit serial number emitter in them! (AIAG B-11 ADC v3.0)
Photos of chips before molded into tires:
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:SVUlB-z0BCQ J: www.sokymat.com/applications/tireid.html
Californias Fastpass is being upgraded to scan ALL responding car tires in future years upcoming. I-75 may get them next in rural funnel points in Ohio.
http://www.tadiran-telematics.com/products6.html
YOU MUST BUY NEUTRALIZED OR FOREIGN TIRES!!!!! Soon such tires will become illegal to import or manufacture.
Using these chips to track people while they drive is actually the idea of the us gov, and current chips CANNOT BE DISABLED or removed. They hope ALL tires will have these chips in 4 years and hope people have a very hard time finding non-chipped tires. Removing the chips is near impossible without destroying the tire as the chips were designed with that DARPA design goal.
They are hardened against removal or heat damage or easy eye detection and can be almost ANYWHERE in the new "big brother" tires. In fact in current models they are integrated early and deep into the substrate of the tire as per US FBI request.
Our freedom of travel are going away in 2003, because now there is an international STANDARD for all tire transponder RFID chips and in 2004 nearly ALL USA cars will have them. Refer to AIAG B-11 ADC, (B-11 is coincidentally Post Sept 11 fastrack initiative by US Gov to speed up tire chip standardization to one read-back standard for highway usage).
The AIAG is "The Automotive Industry Action Group"
The non proprietary (non-sokymat controlled) standard is the AIAG B-11 standard is the "Tire Label and Radio Frequency Identification" standard
"ADC" stands for "Automatic Data Collection"
The "AIDCW" is the US gov manipulated "Automatic Identification Data Collection Work Group"
The standard was started and finished rapidly in less than a year as a direct consequence of the Sep 11 attacks by Saudi nationals.
I believe detection of the AIAG B-11 radio chips (RFIS serial number transponders) in the upgraded car tracking http://www.tadiran-telematics.com/products6.html is currently secret knowledge. Another reason to leave "finger print on Driver license" California, but Ohio gets it next, as will every other state eventually.
The AIAG is claiming the chips reduce car theft, assist in tracking defects, and assists error-proofing the tire assembly process. But the real secret is that these 5 cent devices are a us government backed initiative to track citizens travel without their consent or ability to disable the transponders in any way.
All tire manufacturers are forced to comply AIAG B-11 3.0 Radio Tire tracking standard by the 2004 model year.
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:gwhgWJnCf3o J: www.aiag.org/publications/b11.asp
Viewing b11 synopsis is free, downloads from that are $10 and tracked by the FBI. Use the google cache to avoid leaving breadcrumbs.
A huge (28 megabyte compressed zip) video of a tire being scanned remotely is at http://mows.aiag.org/ScriptContent/videos/ (the file is "video Aiagb-11.zip"). I would use a proxie when touching it. The FBI is monitoring the "curious" hackers.
And just as showerheads are now illegal to import into the USA from Canada or mexico, as are drums of industrial Freon, and standard size toilets are illegal to import for home use, soon car tires
While there are certainly plenty of issues surrounding use of RFID in personal items, I believe there are plenty of opportunities for their use in non-Personal items that carry none of these issues. For example, what if RFID were integrated into all of the multitude of assembly line and related devices found on a factory floor. They could then be used to quickly inventory the items currently in a specific area of that factory. Or, track the spare devices in a storage area, making it very easy to determine if there is a replacement for a failed part without having to search through multiple storage areas only to learn there is a discrepency between electronic records and what is physically present.
Or, how about using RFID to track all items entering and leaving a construction site? This would provide very accurate and timely tracking of items arriving from suppliers, or being returned to suppliers.
None of these examples has privacy issues, yet they offer new solutions to rather challenging issues. Chief among them is the ability to match up electronic records with physical reality without being nearly as vulnerable to human error.
...thereby immensely frustrating the tinfoil hat community.
Everyone will start to cheer when you put on your sailin' shoes.
The last few months, I've gone from caring to indifferent in regards to RFID's. The reason? Visible Light.
With Visible Light, the FBI can track anyone, anywhere. In case you haven't noticed, they already have cameras which can read license plates, and from distances much longer than the few meters of RFIDs. RFID's are a moot point - the technology for tracking people using Visible Light already exists, and is already installed.
Eavesdropping technology is a red herring designed to distract the public from the real issue - that is, our legal system isn't entirely just. There have always been ways to frame the innocent, and there have always been ways to coerce and intimidate. The absence (sp?) of RFID's isn't going to prevent the government from oppressing people; last I checked, we are still "detaining" Muslim "persons of interest" for extended periods of time. Now tell me, what do RFID's have to do with that?
RFID's are a moot point. The real issue is the Federal Government's lack of accountability to the public.
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