It's unlikely that these tags could be used to track your location in any meaningful way, but they still have lots of uses that are changing the tire industry.

Walk through a busy distribution center today and you’ll notice something subtle. Pallets move across docks, tools shift between workstations, and shipments leave the building, yet nobody stops to ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking to build projects including an RFID scanner may be interested in a new tutorial by Instructables member Xeiverse to create a Raspberry Pi RFID Scanner with ease.

Sunnyvale startup Wirama announced that they've finished the most precise RFID reader available yet, with the ability to locate passive RFID tags to within 6 inches (through the EPC Class 1 Gen 2 ...

Ever hear of the Phoniebox project? If not – tune in, that’s a hacker’s project your entire family will appreciate. Phoniebox is a software suite and tutorial for building a jukebox controlled through ...

RFID chips have quietly migrated from factory floors into the rubber that meets the road, turning tires into data points long before most drivers noticed. The technology has been embedded in products ...

DS Penske has been fined €25,000 for the infraction, and both of its drivers will have to start the Portland E-Prix from the pit lane. DS Penske has been fined €25,000 for the infraction, and both of ...

Sept. 27, 2002 — There are some people who believe that they won’t see RFID labels being used to track individual items in stores in their lifetime. In fact, the first testing of such a system could ...

A UK company has developed a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader that supports Near Field Communication (NFC), a new standard that will allow electronic devices to interact when touched ...

We already use dogs and monkeys as service animals to help people with disabilities, so why not use robots as well? Researchers at Georgia Tech have combined RFID tags, long-distance scanners, and a ...

A transmitter/receiver that reads the contents of RFID tags in the vicinity. Also called an "RFID interrogator." The maximum distance between the reader's antenna and the tag vary, depending on ...