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Anti-hijack system

This is probably the most common anti-hijack system and a central locking system which uses the same concept was demonstrated by Jeremy Clarkson on an old episode of the BBC Top Gear program where he teased a butler by asking him to put his bags in a Mercedes-Benz S600 but didn't give the RFID transponder.

Cashless catering

The use of the technology has expanded to include music festivals such as Ottawa Bluesfest and Wireless Festival, where the system has been integrated into RFID wristbands.

Contactless

Contactless payment, systems which use RFID for making secure payments

EasyCard

At the 27th annual German Chaos Communication Congress hacker conference ("27C3") in 2010, German free software programmer Harald Welte showed that it is possible to artificially change the amount of money stored on a first-generation EasyCard—based on the MIFARE Classic—using nothing more than a USB RFID reader and a laptop computer running open source software.

Edifice Technologies

Using the latest RFID technologies integrated with its patent-pending LightsOn software, the company enables users to visualize their environment in 3D.

EToll

The system operates using in-car 5.8GHz RFID transponders, generally manufactured by Kapsch or CS Route.

IC-TAG Solutions

Its partnerships with leading industry leaders including Alien Technology and Avery Dennison as well as its contract with GSA aided IC-TAG Solutions in strengthing and enlarging the RFID channel to territories in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Europe and Australia.

KeeLoq

In March 2008, researchers from the Chair for Embedded Security of Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, presented a complete break of remote keyless entry systems based on the KeeLoq RFID technology.

Mikel King

The company developed and patented a RFID-based intelligent Baccarat casino table.

Mobile device

Enterprise digital assistants can further extend the available functionality for the business user by offering integrated data capture devices like barcode, RFID and smart card readers.

Norwegian passport

The biometric passports contain an RFID chip containing the passport's printed data in a digital format along with the photograph in a JPEG format along with a digital key to verify the that the data contained is authentic and hasn't been tampered with.

Olivier Mével

In 2003, he co-founded Violet with Rafi Haladjian, which created Nabaztag, an interactive and internet-connected object launched in 2005 and the RFID reader Mir:ror.

Public transport in Bratislava

Tickets for 70 minutes or 24 hours can be bought via SMS (Slovak mobile operators only), travelcards for 30, 90 or 365 days can be bought online at www.dpb.sk if customer owns RFID card issued by DPB or ZSSK or ISIC card with RFID chip personalized to use in DPB.

Pulse-position modulation

Pulse position modulation is also used for communication to the ISO/IEC 15693 contactless smart card as well as the HF implementation of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) Class 1 protocol for RFID tags.

Rabo Mobiel

From 2006-2009, Rabo Mobiel also worked extensively on NFC technologies, including trials at C1000 supermarkets (together with KPN, Logica and NXP Semiconductors, as well as Stichting RFID Nederland and Banksys), proof-of-concept programmes and trials with Coca Cola, FEBO, Albert Heijn, Diergaarde Blijdorp, Achmea and Stichting Diabeter, MyOrder, Carian, and the American School of The Hague.

Retriever Communications

Retriever has involvement in this project by RFID enabling its application at CHEP and providing a scanning mobile application for handheld RFID readers, integrated to the Telstra system.

Samy Kamkar

In 2008, after Kamkar's restriction from computers was lifted, he demonstrated weaknesses in Visa, MasterCard and Europay credit cards with Near field communication (NFC) and Radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips built in and released software demonstrating the ability to steal credit card information, including name, credit card number, and expiration date, wirelessly from these cards.

Smart tag

Smart label, a type of radio-frequency identification (RFID) transponder

Surveillance abuse

Many opponents of the Real ID Act of 2005, including the 511 campaign, cite the RFID-embedded Real ID as a mass surveillance tool to be used by the state against dissidents.

Tata Research Development and Design Centre

TCS Innovation Lab, Peterborough, England: New-wave communications for the enterprises, utility computing and RFID (chips, tags, labels, readers and middleware).

ThermoSensor

ThermoSensor is a coin-sized battery-powered RFID-enabled temperature sensor which is to be attached to the lower abdomen of patients by using 3M Tegaderm for body temperature monitoring.

University College Dublin Library

The Short Loan collection in the James Joyce library and the entire stock of the Blackrock and Veterinary Medicine libraries uses RFID technology.


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