RFID Essentials: An Introduction to RFID--Part III
RFID--What is it? Here is the third segment of an excerpt from Chapter 1 of RFID Essentials. This multi-part series will take you from nuts and bolts, through challenges, all the way to adoption guidelines. This week features a focus on applications.
Certain broad types of RFID applications characterize whole approaches to this technology and are different enough in considerations and implementation to warrant a separate discussion. The tree in Figure 6 shows RFID's relationship to other identity systems, as well as the relationships between different types of RFID.