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Radio Frequency Identification and Driving Tests

Filed in archive RFID Basics on December 27, 2011

Radio Frequency Identification and Driving Tests
© Ronald Lewis
The Indian government is putting radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to an innovative new use, as driving tests at the Regional Transport Authority in Nagole will soon be judged by a computer-based RFID system. The technology will be introduced first at the four-wheeler test track, where sensors have already been placed underneath the track.

Later, this facility will be extended to two-wheeler and heavy vehicle testing tracks as well. When a person drives on the trick, deviations would be reflected on the computer screen which is monitored by a motor vehicle inspector. Their goal is to negate human error, and thus eliminate the dispute process by which some drivers have alleged that they were deliberately failed on the tests despite driving the vehicle perfectly. As driver's license applications in India continue to skyrocket, RTA officials are finding it difficult to keep up and have had to add new testing tracks at Nagole and other branches.

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RFID Chips’s Identification Method Wins The Best Paper Award

Filed in archive RFID Basics on September 22, 2011

RFID Chips’s Identification Method Wins The Best Paper Award
© Mobile RFID
Recently, Krzysztof Pietrzak (CWI) and an international team won the Best Paper Award at Eurocrypt 2011 in Tallinn. Researchers have found new simple ways for cryptographic authentication. The new methods can also be implemented on RFID chips, which are used in electronic passports and the OV chip cards.

Many electronic identification devices use RFID chips nowadays. RFID chips had been invented by cryptographers Hopper and Blum in 2001. A prototype of the RFID chip is being implemented at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Amsterdam. In future, these new techniques will be used to accomplish other cryptographic tasks than authentication, like encryption schemes.
Krzysztof Pietrzak, a member of the CWI research group Cryptology and Information Security investigates elementary questions about cryptography from a broad scientific point of view, especially mathematics, computer science and physics.

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Washable RFID Tag

Filed in archive Misc on September 8, 2011

Washable RFID Tag
© Posh Living, LLC
Many guests at luxury hotels try to justify spending big bucks on their room by stuffing their suitcase with as many "souvenirs" as possible, including things like towels, bathrobes and slippers. Hotels are now fighting back with a new technological weapon in the form of the washable RFID tag.

These chips, created by Linen Technology Tracking, are being sewn into anything made of cloth inside of a hotel room. So if you try to take off with the towels, a sensor will go off to alert the hotel immediately. So far, three hotels in Honolulu, Miami and Manhattan are testing the technology, but Linen Technology Tracking refuses to reveal the names of the hotels. The unnamed Honolulu hotel is reporting great success with the RFID-embedded towels, saying that theft is down form 4,000 to 750 towels in just one month.

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