RFID—A Unique Radio Innovation for the 21st Century [Scanning the Issue]

Abstract

In 1948, the Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers published Harry Stockman's seminal work on "communication by means of reflected power," which many consider as the first paper on RFID. The paper concluded by expressing the expectation that "considerable research and development work has to be done before the remaining basic problems in reflected-power communication are solved, and before the field of useful applications is explored." It is only appropriate that after more than 60 years following the publication of this work by its progenitor, in this special issue the Proceedings of the IEEE review current developments towards the realisation of the goal outlined by Stockman.

Bridging the gap between RFID/EPC concepts, technological requirements and supply chain e-business processes.

“…Since 2005, short after mandates to adopt the technology have been required by major prime contractors such as Wal-Mart and the US DOD, RFID technology has attracted the interest of the academic community. Since then, apart from the increasing number of papers being published on the subject, various special issues have contributed to explain technological and business aspects related to its adoption [19], [21], [25], [31], [36], [47], [52], [69], [71], [72] [79]. Among them, in its April 2008 issue (Volume 3, no.…”

RFID IoT-enabled warehouse for safety management using product class-based storage and potential fields methods

“…A fundamental role is covered by the RFID technology which allows to identify objects, people or animals, store information about them and transfer it via wireless communication to other electronic devices (Finkenzeller, 2003;Gadh et al, 2010). The RFID system consists of two main components: the tag and the reader.…”

Design and Implementation of RFID Authentication Protocol based on Simple Symmetric Key (SSK) algorithm

“…Currently, RFID has been extensively used in many fields such as device tracking, supply chain management, Home and office logistic control and many more [6,2]. In recent years, there are many kinds of interventions such as tag tracing, impersonation, desynchronization attack and physical attacks and clone attacks targeting at RFID system.…”