By Timo | 19 November 2009
We are beginning to see RFID and NFC peripherals beginning to be released for the iPhone. Since our conceptual video prototype of the iPhone object-based media came out in April, we’ve had thousands of emails requesting details about such a peripheral. Here is the first, the iCarte.
“The iCarteTM is a Near Field Communication (NFC) / [...]
The EU is conducting a new online consultancy on privacy, data protection and information security principles in RFID applications.
I am happy to see that in Article 5 they begin to address the invisible nature of RFID readers in public space:
“RFID applications can technically operate without any visible or otherwise perceivable action [...]”
They go further [...]
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On the final day of How I learned to love RFID we visited the Fraunhofer institute for material flow and logistics. The institute concentrates on supply chain, logistic and robotic applications. They also foster the Open ID Center, that intends to create open platforms for the use of RFID in the supply chain.
Logistics and supply [...]