Rfid Technology For The Consumer And The Producer Alike

As RFID technology evolves and becomes less expensive, there will be an increase in the number of companies and vendors using the technology. Eventually, new applications will be developed and these systems may even be able to solve common or unique problems associated with business in today’s market.

As we can see now RFID technology is becoming very popular around the world. However, in my opinion, I would like to say that RFID tags pose a risk to personal privacy. RFID tags easily to be stolen by hackers. They could steal your personal information such as your credit card or your passports. For example, now in some states of the U.S, the government allows the citizen to use RFID passports. However, many citizen still disagree to apply RFID passports because they think it contains many issued such as it is vulnerable to wireless attack by hackers (it can be read up to 30 feet away and copying without permission from the RFID owner). In addition, it is even more dangerous when the RFID passports can contain information that is corresponding to the photo of the RFID tags owner. So just think what will happen if someone hack your passports and what they can do with its information from that RFID passport? Therefore, even RFID tags is becoming popular and can be the next generation technology in the real world, but now, in my opinion, I would like to say that RFID still contains many problem that can harm to personal privacy.

To justify the objective I have begun the research with literature revi9ew and by collecting the secondary data from the articles, peer reviewed journals, related research papers and books. Journals and articles were important to understand the challenges and risk RFID technology is facing .I Addition to data collected from another sources are discussing with industries who implemented and using RFID technology to track their products, Reviews and people who are technically involved with RFID technology helped me to collect the data required for my

The continued growth of RFID is directly proportional to its low-cost and easy application, and recent improvements in security and reliability have made it possible to use RFID in more ways than ever before: smart homes, healthcare management, food safety, and more.

While the Radio Frequency Identification Device has been in existence for almost 50 years, the use of this chip in human beings is an advancement of the technology. The chip has mainly been used for tracking animals and goods throughout is existence. Generally, the RFID chip consists of two main parts i.e. an antenna and integrated circuit chip. It's been used as an effective detection mechanism since the antenna can recognize the chip regardless of whether it's within its line of sight (Alam, 2011).

First advancements in RFID technology coupled with decreasing costs have allowed RFID to gain greater prominence and therefore a higher level of adoption. The following are examples of the unique capabilities offered by RFID:

First of all, what are RFID chips, and what are they capable of? In more detail RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification, a technology that uses tiny computer chips smaller than a grain of sand to track items at

Today, RFID is used in retail, manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, travel, entertainment, etc. RFID increases efficiency of operations, decreases reliance on manual process, improves asset visibility and traceability, reduces operation costs, and provides useful data for business analytics. There are many different reasons why companies and firms are beginning to make the switch to RFID, some examples are: automating inventory and asset-tracking in healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and business sectors; identifying the source of products, enabling intelligent recall of defective or dangerous items; prevent use of counterfeit products in the supply chain; improve shopping experience for consumers; provide visibility into the supply chain

Weaknesses involve high cost per unit and high RFID system integration costs, as well as low level of RFID technology understanding in the market. Opportunities for the RFID incorporate potential for replace of the bar code, increasing end-user demand for RFID systems and market potential in various businesses. Finally, treats involve customers concerns of privacy violation. After all, using of RFID system Drugco Discount Pharmacy improves overall efficiency of the company and on the same time customers’

Another industry that this technology has had a major impact on is in the financial sector. RFID has drastically changed how we deal with money. For instance, almost all credit cards out there today use RFID. Users can pay by simply sticking one side of their card into a machine and voilà. Some cards even enable users to perform payments with contactless cards just by touching or waving that card against the terminal.

The Average gas consumer may have already used this technology without knowledge. The “Speed Pass” by Mobile Gas, and the “Sun Pass” used in our local Toll System are just a few examples of RFID technology in use.

RFID which is one of the human microchip technologies was first used during the World War II. The technology played an important role of identifying friends or foes in the battle field. According to Yechuri (2004), the Friend or Foe (IFF) system was made in order to ensure that related fighters and anti-aircraft organizations could differentiate their own returning bombers from aircraft sent by the enemy. After the World War II was over, an engineer by the name Henry Stockman explored the issue where he published a paper entitled Communication by Means of Reflected Power. In this paper, he explored the issue of passive RFID chips and discussed how they were used by military personnel in the war for identification purposes. In the early 1960s, this technology gained recognition and RFID was used to find and access hazardous components and nuclear power (Pollar & Elsen, 2013).

RFID, or radio frequency identification, is the new system that is replacing the use of barcodes. RFID tags allow users to more quickly obtain information from the object that the RFID tag

RFID technology is not only used at gas stations, restaurants, and department but also at

Some of the disadvantages of the RFID technology are that it is expensive to install. Small and medium scale enterprises find it costly to use it in their firms and offices. In the case of Harley Davidson, getting products from many different suppliers’ would mean that the tags may have to be installed in liquid and metal products. The problem is that the liquid and metal surfaces tend to reflect the radio waves, which makes the tags unreadable. The tags have to be placed in various alignments and angles for taking proper reading. This is a tedious task when the work involves a large organization like Harley Davidson. Another disadvantage of the technology is that interference has been observed if devices such as forklifts and walkie-talkies are in the vicinity of the distribution centers. The presence of mobile phone towers has been found to interfere with RFID radio waves. Wal-Mart, the retail sector giant, has installed billions of RFID tags in their products throughout the world and they have encountered such problems.