Harvey Lehpamer
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 375
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This edition features numerous updates and new and expanded material on emerging topics such as the medical applications of RFID and new ethical challenges in the field. Offering a detailed understanding of RFID design essentials, key applications, and important management issues, it explores the role of RFID technology in supply chain management, intelligent building design, transportation systems, military applications, and numerous other applications, and explains the design of RFID circuits, antennas, interfaces, data encoding schemes, and complete systems. Starting with the basics of RF and microwave propagation, discusses major system components including tags and readers. This hands-on reference distills the latest RFID standards, and examines RFID at work in supply chain management, intelligent buildings, intelligent transportation systems, and tracking animals. RFID is controversial among privacy and consumer advocates, and this book looks at every angle concerning security, ethics, and protecting consumer data