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Cambridge, UK. RFID is booming—it now accounts for the largest number of silicon ICs of one particular type. But in addition to over 20% growth over the next few years, there is much more to come.

Sensors and automatic identification have already transformed supply chains. RFID tags and scanners, barcodes, QR codes, and handheld or fixed position scanners and imagers generate real-time data ...

Pity the poor businessperson. He or she is interested in taking advantage of new technologies that enable a company to monitor the location or condition of assets in real time. But technology ...

Engineers at MIT are developing a way to turn the humble RFID tag into a light-powered sensor for the internet of things. Based on thin-film perovskite cells, the goal is to create inexpensive, ...

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“We wondered whether we could repurpose RFID tags to do battery-free sensing and tracking,” says Nagarjun Bhat, a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering and lead author of a new study. Data is power.

The EM4325 RFID IC is a versatile and multipurpose, battery-assisted passive chip with integrated temperature sensor. It is a class-3 Gen2 part and is compliant with ISO/IEC 18000-6:2010 type C and ...

Fans can grab Seahawks jerseys and other gear at a Pro Shop Outlet at Seattle’s Lumen Field that uses Just Walk and RFID technology. (Seattle Seahawks Photo) Amazon is adding a new wrinkle to “Just ...