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LANDMARC: indoor location sensing using active RFID

LM Ni — 2005-08-08T10:32:22-00:00

Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2003. (PerCom 2003). Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on (2003), pp. 407-415.

Growing convergence among mobile computing devices and embedded technology sparks the development and deployment of "context-aware" applications, where location is the most essential context. We present LANDMARC, a location sensing prototype system that uses Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for locating objects inside buildings. The major advantage of LANDMARC is that it improves the overall accuracy of locating objects by utilizing the concept of reference tags. Based on experimental analysis, we demonstrate that active RFID is a viable and cost-effective candidate for indoor location sensing. Although RFID is not designed for indoor location sensing, we point out three major features that should be added to make RFID technologies competitive in this new and growing market.

Tamper Detection for Ubiquitous RFID-Enabled Supply Chain

Vidyasagar Potdar — 2008-02-11T06:45:05-00:00

Computational Intelligence and Security (2005), pp. 273-278.

Security and privacy are two primary concerns in RFID adoption. In this paper we focus on security issues in general and data tampering in particular. Here we present a conceptual framework to detect and identify data tampering in RFID tags. The paper surveys the existing literature and proposes to add a tamper detection component in the existing RFID middleware architecture. The tamper detection component is supported by mathematical algorithm to embed and extract secret information which can be employed to detect data tampering.

Mutual Authentication Protocol for RFID Tags Based on Synchronized Secret Information with Monitor

Song Han — 2008-02-11T06:44:26-00:00

Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2007 (2007), pp. 227-238.

RFID, as an anti-conterfeiting technology, is pushing huge potential industrial, medical, business and social applications. RFID-based identification is an example of emerging technology which requires authentication. In this paper, we will propose a new mutual authentication protocol for RFID tags. The RFID reader and tag will carry out the authentication based on their synchronized secret information. The synchronized secret information will be monitored by a component of the database server. Our protocol also supports the low-cost non-volatile memory of RFID tags. This is desirable since non-volatile memory is an expensive unit in RFID tags.

The magic of RFID

Roy Want — 2006-04-27T11:27:11-00:00

Queue, Vol. 2, No. 7. (October 2004), pp. 40-48.

RFID and the perception of control: the consumer's view

Oliver G&\#252;nther — 2007-04-29T01:14:28-00:00

Commun. ACM, Vol. 48, No. 9. (September 2005), pp. 73-76.

Vulnerabilities in First-Generation RFID-enabled Credit Cards

Thomas Heydt-Benjamin — 2008-03-03T09:47:12-00:00

Financial Cryptography and Data Security (2008), pp. 2-14.

RFID-enabled credit cards are widely deployed in the United States and other countries, but no public study has thoroughly analyzed the mechanisms that provide both security and privacy. Using samples from a variety of RFID-enabled credit cards, our study observes that (1) the cardholder’s name and often credit card number and expiration are leaked in plaintext to unauthenticated readers, (2) our homemade device costing around $150 effectively clones one type of skimmed cards thus providing a proof-of-concept implementation for the RF replay attack, (3) information revealed by the RFID transmission cross contaminates the security of RFID and non-RFID payment contexts, and (4) RFID-enabled credit cards are susceptible in various degrees to a range of other traditional RFID attacks such as skimming and relaying.

Privacy and security in library RFID: issues, practices, and architectures

David Molnar — 2005-05-18T06:43:37-00:00

(2004), pp. 210-219.

Supporting Colocated Interactions Using RFID and Social Network Displays

Shin'ichi Konomi — 2006-11-14T16:32:50-00:00

IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 5, No. 3. (July 2006), pp. 48-56.

Leter to the Editor Regarding "A Secutiry Analysis of the Verichip Implantable RFID Device"

Katherine Albrecht — 2007-01-17T13:46:01-00:00

J Am Med Inform Assoc (9 January 2007)

In a recent article, "A Security Analysis of the Verichip Implantable RFID Device," authored by John Halamka, Ari Juels, Adam Stubblefield, and Jonathan Westhues, the authors state that Religious groups have gone so far as to state that the VeriChip may be a realization of the Mark of the Beast as described in the New Testament. The authors support this statement with an endnote referencing a book of which I am the co-author.

RFID Infrastructures and AI Approachs For Security

Mehmet Kis — 2007-11-12T07:23:49-00:00

RFID Eurasia, 2007 1st Annual (2007), pp. 1-6.

This article emphasizes on the efficiency, productivity and privacy of the integration of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies to mobile learning environments. It also mentions to the project that has been developed with the idea of creating a common RFID infrastructure that can be used with wireless/mobile information systems and making this infrastructure secure and reliable. The security problems and proposed solutions using Artificial Intelligence approaches for these systems will also be in the subjects of this paper.

Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID

Katherine Albrecht — 2007-06-20T20:40:55-00:00

(04 October 2005)

RFID, which stands for Radio Frequency IDentification, is a technology that uses computer chips smaller than a grain of sand to track items from a distance. And as this mind-blowing book explains, plans and efforts are being made now by global corporations and the U.S government to turn this advanced technology, these spychips, into a way to track our daily activities-and keep us all on Big Brother's short leash. Compiling massive amounts of research with firsthand knowledge, Spychips explains RFID technology and reveals the history and future of the master planners' strategies to imbed these trackers on everything-from postage stamps to shoes to people themselves-and spy on Americans without our knowledge or consent. It also urgently encourages consumers to take action now-to protect their privacy and civil liberties before it's too late.

The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance

Katherine Albrecht — 2007-06-20T20:38:49-00:00

(31 January 2006)

Ever feel like you're being watched? This eye-opening book shows how a new technology may soon track your every move . . . and pave the way for the fulfillment of end-time biblical prophecy. A revolutionary technology called RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) is poised to expose our habits, secrets, and slip-ups to money-hungry marketers, savvy criminals, and government snoops. One day soon, our shoes could keep track of our footsteps. Stores could ID us as we walk in the door. Hidden "tracking units" could log even our restroom visits. Global corporations and government agencies have already invested millions in a plan that uses tiny microchips to uniquely number and track everyday items. Parts of this Orwellian vision are uncannily similar to the prophesies of Revelation. Chipping inanimate objects is just the start-the endpoint is a form of RFID that can be injected into the flesh. This work-an updated version of Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre's controversial and award-winning book Spychips-is a clarion call to Christians to take a stand against plans to monitor and control people through this unnerving new technology. Using public records, real-world examples, and biblical prophesies, Albrecht and McIntyre uncover the frightening story behind RFID and show us how to protect our privacy and civil liberties while there's still time.

Introduction to the talking points project

Scott Gifford — 2008-01-10T04:25:42-00:00

(2006), pp. 271-272.

RFID in robot-assisted indoor navigation for the visually impaired

V Kulyukin — 2008-01-10T15:42:58-00:00

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004. (IROS 2004). Proceedings. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, Vol. 2 (2004), pp. 1979-1984 vol.2.

We describe how radio frequency identification (RFID) can be used in robot-assisted indoor navigation for the visually impaired. We present a robotic guide for the visually impaired that was deployed and tested both with and without visually unpaired participants in two indoor environments. We describe how we modified the standard potential fields algorithms to achieve navigation at moderate walking speeds and to avoid oscillation in narrow spaces. The experiments illustrate that passive RFID tags deployed in the environment can act as reliable stimuli that trigger local navigation behaviors to achieve global navigation objectives.

Flexible tag microlab development: Gas sensors integration in RFID flexible tags for food logistic

Estefania Abad — 2008-05-07T07:57:20-00:00

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Vol. 127, No. 1. (20 October 2007), pp. 2-7.

The enabling technologies for the development of a flexible tag microlab for food monitoring during the logistic chain will be presented. The realisation of the system includes the integration of physical and chemical sensors with Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) communication capabilities. The first ISO 15693 compliant semi-active tag prototype, including low power control electronics, RFID antenna, commercial sensors, memory and a thin film battery, is shown together with the development of novel ultra-low power hotplates required for this application and the process, based on the use of anisotropic conductive adhesive (ACA) flip chip technology, for gas sensors integration onto flexible substrates.

Cost of Ownership Model for the RFID Logistics System applicable to U-city

Hong Kim — 2008-01-22T15:35:07-00:00

European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. In Press, Accepted Manuscript

Economical assessment of the impact of RFID technology and EPC system on the fast-moving consumer goods supply chain

Eleonora Bottani — 2008-01-16T13:59:50-00:00

International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. In Press, Corrected Proof

This paper describes a research whose aim is to quantitatively assess the impact of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and electronic product code (EPC) system on the main processes of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) supply chain. A three-echelon supply chain is examined, composed of manufacturers, distributors and retailers of FMCG. A questionnaire survey was performed to collect both quantitative and qualitative data related to logistics processes of each player. Starting from these data, a feasibility study has been carried out in order to assess the economical suitability of RFID and EPC adoption in the FMCG supply chain, both for each player and for the FMCG supply chain as a whole. Results of the feasibility study show that RFID and EPC implementation is still not profitable for all echelons examined. Specifically, both from a "non-integrated" and from an "integrated" scenario, RFID adoption with pallet-level tagging provides positive revenues for all supply-chain players. Conversely, adopting a case-level tagging, substantial costs arise for manufacturers, involving negative economical results. Outcomes of this study provide an economical justification to the RFID and EPC implementation in the FMCG supply chain.

Use of innovative content integration information technology at the point of sale

Loebbecke — 2007-08-02T19:24:11-00:00

European Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 16, No. 3. (July 2007), pp. 228-236.

eMARP: Enhanced Mobile Agent for RFID Privacy Protection and Forgery Detection

Sang-Soo Yeo — 2008-05-09T20:37:06-00:00

Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications (2007), pp. 318-327.

We are sure that RFID system should be a widely used automatic identification system because of its various advantages and applications. However, many people know that invasion of privacy in RFID system is a still critical problem that makes it difficult to be used widely. Many works for solving this problem have focused on developing light-weight cryptographic modules inside of an RFID tag and building communication protocols with the reader or the back-end server. Another approach is use of proxy agents that control communications between the tag and the reader for protecting privacy. In this paper, we present an enhanced version of MARP scheme. We modified the original MARP scheme for reducing the probability of preventing attacker’s eavesdropping and for reducing the communication number of tags. And back-end servers can authenticate mobile agents more easily using public key cryptography in this scheme. Enhanced MARP scheme guarantees not only privacy protection but also forgery detection, and it only needs slight modification in the current tag hardware.

An RFID-based remote monitoring system for enterprise internal production management

Zhou — 2007-07-19T20:02:39-00:00

The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 33, No. 7-8. (July 2007), pp. 837-844.

Novel RFID Authentication Schemes for Security Enhancement and System Efficiency

N Lo — 2008-05-09T20:25:55-00:00

Secure Data Management (2007), pp. 203-212.

As industries aggressively deploy Radio Frequency IDentification application systems, the user privacy invasion and system security threats are increasingly concernd by individuals and organizations. Recently several hash-based mutual authentication schemes have been proposed to resolve security-related problems. However, previous schemes either suffer from security loopholes or have system efficiency problem for identity match process. In this paper, the security flaws of two recently proposed hash-based authentication schemes are analyzed at first. Based on this analysis, we identify the security and privacy criterions for the authentication process of RFID systems, and propose a new mutual authentication scheme to eliminate possible security flaws and enhance privacy protection to the owner of an object with RFID tag attached on it. In addition, we develop an efficient identity match and retrieval mechanism to relieve the heavy computation load of traditional match scheme between received tag identity and records in backend database of RFID systems.

What does RFID do for the consumer?

Bruce Eckfeldt — 2006-06-06T17:51:45-00:00

Commun. ACM, Vol. 48, No. 9. (September 2005), pp. 77-79.

Enabling RFID in retail

G Roussos — 2006-07-12T21:21:34-00:00

Computer, Vol. 39, No. 3. (2006), pp. 25-30.

The past two years have witnessed an explosion of interest in radio-frequency identification and supporting technologies, due primarily to their rapidly expanding use in tracking grocery products through the supply chain. Currently such applications monitor store-keeping units (SKUs) rather than individual goods, as the relatively high cost of RFID deployment and the very low profit margin of supermarket products make item-level tagging impractical. Yet, economic and technical concerns aside, it is easy to envision a supermarket in which each item is tagged with an RFID label and all shopping carts feature RFID readers. The carts could potentially include onboard computers that recognize products placed inside and that display information and promotions retrieved wirelessly from the system back end. RFID-enabled smart phones, which are commercially available today and becoming increasingly popular, could carry out the same function. Item-level deployment of RFID technology would also allow for quick checkout aisles that scan all products at once and thus eliminate queues, which are consistently reported as one of the most negative aspects of supermarket shopping. A simple extension of this system would be to embed RFID devices in consumers' loyalty or frequent-shopper cards to identify individuals. This could expedite system login and charge the shopping cost directly to the customer's account at the point of sale-unless removed at the POS, item-level tags will inevitably follow the consumer home. This scenario undoubtedly raises numerous privacy concerns.

Case study on retail customer communication applying ubiquitous computing

J Struker — 2006-11-14T18:41:14-00:00

e-Commerce Technology, 2004. CEC 2004. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on (2004), pp. 42-48.

The use of mobile information systems and communication technology furthers the informatization and automation of operating processes. In the retail industry, mobile communication technology affords new forms of customer communication by establishing electronic and individually designable channels of communication. In conjunction with powerful information systems, these options enable both improved services for customers and an increase in turnover and profit through more flexible and individualized pricing and communication policy. This contribution exemplifies the forms of pricing policy considering the "extra future store" of METRO Group as case study and identifies two determinants of success for these new types of electronic customer communications: the power of disposal over the end device and the range of communication.

RFID: a technical overview and its application to the enterprise

R Weinstein — 2005-12-08T09:26:12-00:00

IT Professional, Vol. 7, No. 3. (2005), pp. 27-33.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) offers tantalizing benefits for supply chain management, inventory control, and many other applications. Only recently, however, has the convergence of lower cost and increased capabilities made businesses take a hard look at what RFID can do for them. This article offers an RFID tutorial that answers the following questions: i) what is RFID, and how does it work? ii) What are some applications of RFID? iii) What are some challenges and problems in RFID technology and implementation? iv) How have some organizations implemented RFID?.

Auto-ID: managing anything, anywhere, anytime in the supply chain

Indranil Bose — 2007-06-26T16:56:28-00:00

Commun. ACM, Vol. 48, No. 8. (August 2005), pp. 100-106.

Intelligent Spaces - The Vision, the Opportunities and the Barriers

S Wright — 2004-12-28T18:17:34-00:00

BT Technology Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3., 15.

Evaluation of an Infrared/Radiofrequency Equipment-Tracking System in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Truls &\#216;stbye — 2005-05-05T07:10:55-00:00

J. Med. Syst., Vol. 27, No. 4. (August 2003), pp. 367-380.

The Supply Chain

D Luckett — 2004-12-28T18:17:34-00:00

BT Technology Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3., 50.

Implementing touchme paradigm with a mobile phone

Lauri Pohjanheimo — 2006-10-27T16:14:55-00:00

(2005), pp. 87-92.

Supporting gestural input for users on the move

R Headon — 2006-10-15T21:33:45-00:00

Eurowearable, 2003. IEE (2003), pp. 107-112.

A wearable system is described that enables users to perform simple command selection and input operations. The system is suitable for use while moving and in almost any posture. The implementation uses RFID and is low in cost and power requirements. There is provision for changing between application contexts, making the system suitable for use in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments where the mobility of the user requires frequent changes of focus. The paper includes a preliminary evaluation of the system's usability.

Enabling implicit human computer interaction: a wearable RFID-tag reader

A Schmidt — 2006-10-15T21:31:09-00:00

Wearable Computers, 2000. The Fourth International Symposium on (2000), pp. 193-194.

Implicit human computer interaction is based on the concept of using user activity in the real world as input to computers. Implicit HCI can help to reduce the problem of user input to wearable computers. In this paper we report on wearable RFID technology that facilitates applications that are triggered by handling tagged physical objects. We also report on a case study in which the technology was integrated with an enterprise resource planning system to optimize work processes that involve physical objects

ReachMedia: On-the-move interaction with everyday objects

Assaf Feldman — 2006-10-15T20:14:32-00:00

(2005), pp. 52-59.

Virtual leading blocks for the deaf-blind: a real-time way-finder by verbal-nonverbal hybrid interface and high-density RFID tag space

T Amemiya — 2006-10-22T14:51:31-00:00

Virtual Reality, 2004. Proceedings. IEEE (2004), pp. 165-287.

In this paper, we discuss application possibilities of augmented reality technologies in the field of mobility support for the deaf blind. We propose the navigation system called virtual leading blocks for the deaf-blind, which consists of a wearable interface for Finger-Braille, one of the commonly used communication methods among deaf-blind people in Japan, and a ubiquitous environment for barrier-free application, which consists of floor-embedded active radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. The wearable Finger-Braille interface using two Linux-based wristwatch computers has been developed as a hybrid interface of verbal and nonverbal communication in order to inform users of their direction and position through the tactile sensation. We propose the metaphor of "watermelon splitting" for navigation by this system and verify the feasibility of the proposed system through experiments.

Bridging physical and virtual worlds with electronic tags

Roy Want — 2005-09-26T14:42:00-00:00

(1999), pp. 370-377.

A wearable augmented reality system using positioning infrastructures and a pedometer

R Tenmoku — 2006-10-27T22:41:03-00:00

Wearable Computers, 2003. Proceedings. Seventh IEEE International Symposium on (2003), pp. 110-117.

Requesting pervasive services by touching RFID tags

J Riekki — 2006-10-21T21:49:37-00:00

Pervasive Computing, IEEE, Vol. 5, No. 2. (2006), pp. 40-46.

The growth of pervasive computing has introduced an increasing number of services in our everyday environments. In this article, we present a general framework for requesting pervasive services by touching tags, representations for the data stored in the tags and the visual symbols shown to the users, a concrete middleware implementation, and usability and user experience studies.

RFID-based product information in end-of-life decision making

Ajith Parlikad — 2007-03-19T08:23:05-00:00

Control Engineering Practice, Vol. In Press, Corrected Proof

With the increasing pressure on manufacturing companies to manage their end-of-life products, the availability of information to improve product recovery decisions is becoming critical. In fact, a fundamental obstacle in making efficient product recovery decisions is the loss of information associated with the product after the point-of-sale. We show qualitatively that the availability of product information has a positive impact on product recovery decisions, and discuss how radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based product identification technologies can be employed to provide the necessary information. The paper also investigates how recovery decisions can be modelled to represent the impact of product information on those decisions.

Designing Communication Protocols for Holonic Control Devices Using Elementary Nets

James Brusey — 2006-10-31T10:56:06-00:00

Lecture Notes in Computer Science : Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing (2005), pp. 76-86.

Auto-ID mobile information system for vehicle life cycle data management

E Bajic — 2006-10-18T14:12:44-00:00

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2002 IEEE International Conference on, Vol. 4 (2002), 6 pp. vol.4.

This paper concerns the use of automatic identification devices (Auto-ID tags) as permanent escort memories associated to the car during its whole life cycle. These memories provide an integration frame for vehicle lifecycle information, which are necessary to support the manufacturing, after-sales services and recycling processes. Additionally they will allow developing new value-added services for customers. Distribution of the information system onto each individual product requires tools and methods to manage and provide access to product related information for both automated systems and human operators. Automatic identification technology using electronic data carriers can provide such functionality and act as product information vectors. The presented approach is based on ISO STEP technology to define computer-aided tools for data structuring and management of product knowledge implemented on mobile database nodes circulating in an open environment from manufacturing to recycling. This work has been conducted with a french car manufacturer.

Efficient tracking for short-term multi-company networks

Mikko Karkkainen — 2007-04-18T19:50:08-00:00

(2004), pp. 545-564.

Tracking of shipments is an important element of customer service in the transportation industry; and essential for logistics services as merge-in-transit. However, contemporary tracking systems are designed for use within a single company, and are thus invariably inadequate for multi-company environments. The single company focus has led to a reduced span of monitoring and a diluted accessibility of information due to proprietary tracking codes and information architectures centred on the tracking service provider. This paper presents a novel forwarder-independent approach for solving the difficulties of tracking in multi-company supply networks. The research argues that the proposed tracking approach is superior to contemporary approaches for material flow tracking in short-term multi-company distribution networks.

Auto ID systems and intelligent manufacturing control

Duncan Mcfarlane — 2006-10-17T10:12:53-00:00

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 16, No. 4. (June 2003), pp. 365-376.

Automated identification systems which involve the automated retrieval of the identity of objects are becoming a reality for monitoring items moving through the manufacturing supply chain. Automated identification enables accurate, timely information about a specific item to be stored, retrieved and communicated. This information can be used to assist in automated decision making and control functions relevant to that item. This paper specifically explores the impact of such developments on manufacturing shop floor control, examining the way in which both conventional control methods and so-called distributed, intelligent control methods can be enhanced by the availability of accurate, timely information about an item. In the case of distributed, intelligent manufacturing control we begin to build a specification for the concept of an intelligent product--a product whose information content is permanently bound to its material content and which is able to influence decisions made about it.

DataTiles: a modular platform for mixed physical and graphical interactions

Jun Rekimoto — 2006-09-07T23:40:58-00:00

(2001), pp. 269-276.

StoryGrid: a tangible interface for student expression

Tom Moher — 2006-06-06T18:02:19-00:00

(2005), pp. 1669-1672.

VideoTable: a tangible interface for collaborative exploration of video material during design sessions

Tomas Sokoler — 2006-06-06T17:30:28-00:00

(2002), pp. 656-657.

Tangible interface for collaborative information retrieval

Alan Blackwell — 2006-06-06T17:29:14-00:00

(2004), pp. 1473-1476.

Tangible music interfaces using passive magnetic tags

Joseph Paradiso — 2006-06-06T17:27:27-00:00

(2001), pp. 1-4.

Papier-Mache: toolkit support for tangible input

Scott Klemmer — 2006-06-06T17:24:28-00:00

(2004), pp. 399-406.

The Webkit Tangible User Interface: A Case Study of Iterative Prototyping

M Stringer — 2005-11-30T14:47:16-00:00

Pervasive Computing, IEEE, Vol. 4, No. 4. (2005), pp. 35-41.

Rapid prototyping helps designers explore issues such as form factors and the relationship between the technology and the social environment in which it will be used. This case study provides examples of good design practice for iterative design of tangible user interfaces. Furthermore, the curriculum-focused design approach demonstrates how it's sometimes necessary to design both the technology and the social context of use.This article is part of a special issue on rapid prototyping.

Books with voices: paper transcripts as a physical interface to oral histories

Scott Klemmer — 2006-06-06T16:51:17-00:00

(2003), pp. 89-96.