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RFID: The Next Internet?

Posted by Hemos on from the distributed-communication-an-internet-does-not-make dept.

An anonymous reader writes "RFID Journal has an artricle about how an open source foundation is creating a new Internet based on RFID tags. 'The founders [RadioActive Foundation] liken the EPCglobal Network as a whole to the Internet, with RFID tags acting as URLs, and the tags' associated data being the Web site for that tag . The software the foundation develops, Michael Mealling adds, will act similarly to an Internet search engine. With Discovery Service software, for example, companies will be able to search for an RFID tag without requiring connected links between each point of the tag's travels.' Pretty neat concept, probably decades away."

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  1. 508 and product tool tips by J+Barnes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seems to me that the the two most obvious uses for this would be for blind people and for in-store product information.

    If your vision-impared, it would be an amazing thing to carry around a talking box that can read signs and maps to you.

    For product "tool tips", you could walk around your local best buy with a small device that could scan CD's and DVD's and hot-link to IMDB reviews or short trailors and song samples.

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  2. The submitter got it wrong I think... by kenh · · Score: 5, Informative

    RFID can't "displace" or become "the next internet" anymore than barcodes can. RFID tags have no computation ability, no networking capabilities...

    RFID tags, at the lowest level emit a pre-programmed number when activated by RF energy (the resonate, if you will).

    There is a Dummies Guide on RFID - I expect it to be a big seller among the tin foil hat crowd ;^)

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    Ken