rfid handbook - applications, technology, security, & privacy

[...]... Emilia, Italy Ahson /RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy 54996_C000 Final Proof page xxii 5.2.2008 1:30pm Compositor Name: VAmoudavally Ahson /RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy 54996_C001 Final Proof page 1 28.1.2008 4:53pm Compositor Name: BMani Section I Introduction Ahson /RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy 54996_C001... brief introduction of the other types of RFID tags is presented in this section EPCglobal designates four classes of RFID tags Class 1 and Class 2 tags are purely 3 Ahson /RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy 54996_C001 Final Proof page 4 28.1.2008 4:53pm Compositor Name: BMani 4 RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy passive tags with Class 2 being a... support throughout this project and they all deserve very special thanks Syed Ahson Mohammad Ilyas Ahson /RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy 54996_C000 Final Proof page xiv 5.2.2008 1:30pm Compositor Name: VAmoudavally Ahson /RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy 54996_C000 Final Proof page xv 5.2.2008 1:30pm Compositor Name: VAmoudavally Editors Syed Ahson... IEEE technical committees and activities He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ASEE xv Ahson /RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy 54996_C000 Final Proof page xvi 5.2.2008 1:30pm Compositor Name: VAmoudavally Ahson /RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy 54996_C000 Final Proof page xvii 5.2.2008 1:30pm Compositor Name: VAmoudavally Contributors... )2 ∧ ∧ (1−⏐ΓT⏐2)(1−⏐ΓR⏐2)⏐pT • pR⏐2 Polarization FIGURE 1.1 The Friis equation showing key elements Ahson /RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy 54996_C001 Final Proof page 6 28.1.2008 4:53pm Compositor Name: BMani 6 RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy In addition to the antenna gains which deal with the physical (structural) antenna orientations, there... earlier y Ph i x Th z eta FIGURE 1.4 Interrogator radiation pattern (left), an ideal dipole (right) Ahson /RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy 54996_C001 Final Proof page 8 28.1.2008 4:53pm Compositor Name: BMani RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy y Phi x Thet a z 8 FIGURE 1.5 Most unfavorable orientation for the tag From the energy pattern of Figure... how this is done is beyond E Field H Field Time FIGURE 1.8 The E and H fields showing phase and time Ahson /RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy 54996_C001 Final Proof page 10 28.1.2008 4:53pm Compositor Name: BMani 10 RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy a b Feed FIGURE 1.9 Two dipole antennas aligned vertically and horizontally as shown Y Phi X Receive... elements a A b E Field B Time FIGURE 1.14 Linearly polarized antennas with most favorable orientation Ahson /RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy 54996_C001 Final Proof page 12 28.1.2008 4:53pm Compositor Name: BMani 12 RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy a =0 FIGURE 1.15 Planes of the interrogator antenna (a) and rotated tag antenna (b) and (c) (a) a... of RFID technologies for communication robots through two field trials involving communication robots and active-type RFID tags Chapter 24 (Browsing the World with RFID Tags: Design and Implementation of an RFID- Based Distributed Environmental Memory) describes the design and implementation of a distributed environmental memory for browsing the world Ahson /RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security,. .. information in an organized and well-structured manner Ahson /RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy 54996_C000 Final Proof page xiii 5.2.2008 1:30pm Compositor Name: VAmoudavally xiii Although the handbook is not precisely a textbook, it can certainly be used as a textbook for graduate courses and research-oriented courses that deal with RFID Any comments from the readers will .