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Feb
25

Motorola Imager and Camera RFID EDA

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MC75 - Imager & Camera, QWERTY Keypad (MC7596-PZCSKQWA9WR)

MC75 - Imager & Camera, QWERTY Keypad (MC7596-PZCSKQWA9WR)

Worldwide Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA)

Product Code : MC7596-PZCSKQWA9WR

WM6 Phone Edition, LAN, HSDPA, Imager & Camera, QWERTY Keypad, IrDA, GPS, VGA and 1.5x battery

No matter what your workers need to get the job done, Motorola’s MC75 Worldwide Enterprise RFID Digital Assistant delivers by combining an unparalleled number of business capabilities into an easy-to-carry rugged device. 3.5G HSDPA and 3G CDMA-EVDO (Rev A) support provides high performance voice and data services around the globe.

Your workers will enjoy having all the features they need right at their fingertips in one device designed to endure all-day, everyday use outside the enterprise — including push-to-talk, integrated GPS with superior sensitivity and tracking capabilities, 1D and 2D bar code scanning, a high resolution 2 megapixel autofocus color camera, 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN (WLAN), Bluetooth and IrDA connectivity.

Rugged, lightweight design
Passes drop-and-tumble tests, with integrated antenna and IP-54 sealing.

Powerful microprocessor
Maximizes mobility, giving desktop-like performance with minimal power use.

Increased interoperability
Enabled through Windows® Mobile 6.0, with advanced security, a flexible development platform and improved mobile messaging.

3G WWAN capability
Delivers high broadband and voice data performance anywhere in the world.

* Connects to most worldwide carriers
* Download speeds of up to 3 Mbps
* Integrated voice and data
* Future-proofed and affordable

WLAN and VoIP support
Provides cost-effective connectivity in offices and hot spots.

Assisted and autonomous GPS support
Enables robust location-based applications, boosts signals in weak areas and increasing time to first fix (TTFF).

WPAN and IrDA
Helps connect wirelessly to modems, printers and headsets, as well as legacy business equipment.

High-definition VGA display
Supports high-resolution images such as video, and remains easy to view in any lighting.

Backwards compatibility
Uses MC70 EDA accessories.

Multiple keyboard options
Include QWERTY, QWERTZ and AZERTY keyboards.

External WWAN antenna
Improves signal reception and makes connections more dependable.

Robust memory space
Provided via 128 MB RAM and 256 MB ROM.

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Feb
16

RFID - some explanation

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Radio-frequency identification chips (often called RFID tags) are inductively powered chips that can be used in a range of applications from a subsiture for bar codes on supermarket products to identifying lost dogs and cats. It is a tiny, battery-powered electronic device. When the RFID tag is activated, it decodes the incoming message and produces an answer by utilizing the energy of the incoming radio wave to power the chip long enough to answer.

The main applications include: supply chain management, machine-driven payment, access control, counterfeit prevention, airline baggage management and increasingly smart homes and offices. The tags come in a range of formats: a flat, thin, flexible form known as a label. A flat, thin, flexible tag on paper is a ticket. A flat, thin tag embedded in tough plastic is known as a card (just like a credit card). A small tag in a cylindrical glass bead, is often used for applications such as tagging animals.

RFID TAGS add value and accuracy to many applications such as compliance labeling in retail distribution centers, high-speed processes in postal and parcel distribution, manufacturing process control and confirmation, material tracking, airline luggage identification and routing systems, and single-pass multiple item identification.

RFID technology can be used to raise productivity and tracking in discrete and process manufacturing. For RFID applications such as toll collection and vehicle and container tracking, the tags are used again and again for many years. Key applications are payment systems (such as toll collection systems), access control and asset tracking. Active and semi-passive rfid tags are useful for tracking high-value goods that need to be read over long ranges, such as railroad cars, but these cost more than passive tags, so they are uneconomical on low-cost items.

RFID tags can be tracked easily which has privacy implications. Some civil liberties groups are worried about RFID technology being utilized to invade people’s privacy. There is concern that RFID tags can enable unethical individuals accumulate information on people without their approval or even knowledge.

RFID tag technology, as a replacement to bar code technology, identifies tagged items over wireless communication between an electronic reader and tags containing data on microprocessor chips. However a key disadvantage of a passive rfid tag is that the tag can be read only at short distances, typically only a few feet.

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Aug
19

BACKGROUND INFO

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RFID systems consist of three main components: tags, readers and databases.

1) RFID Tags: RFID tags are small programmable devices used for object, animal and human tracking. RFID tags come in different shapes, sizes and functionalities. Whereas some tags are read-only devices, usually only storing an ID number, others are reprogrammable and capable of storing larger amounts of data. RFID tags communicate wirelessly with RFID readers and many are powered by the reader as well

2) RFID Readers: RFID readers acquire and sometimes rewrite information stored on RFID tags that come within operating range (a few inches up to several feet). Readers are usually connected to a computer system that records and formats the acquired information for further uses.

3) Computer Database: RFID databases vary widely depending on the intended future use of the logged information. Databases are usually designed in such a way that the information can be easily matched and merged with other information, a technique called computer matching.

RFID USES:
Due to their small size, RFID tags can be placed in or on packaging materials, clothing, wristbands and—in the case of sub-dermal tags—under animal and human skin. RFID differs from existing electronic ID technologies (such as barcodes, magnetic stripes and smart cards) in several ways. Most importantly, RFID increases the amount of data that can be stored and transmits this information wirelessly and automatically whenever a tag is within range of a reader. This introduces new applications such as automatic checkout and identification at a distance.

RFID HISTORY:
The first cited use of RFID technology was by the British Royal Air Force to identify “friendly” planes during WWII. Starting in the 1960s, bulky radio tags were used to track wildlife for scientific study. In the last two decades, however, electronic miniaturization has made “passive” RFID technology possible and increasingly inexpensive. The initial targets of passive RFID tracking were wildlife, but have since progressed to livestock, pets, cars, prisoners, packaged products, military hardware and school children. In October 2004, the FDA approved implantable RFID tags for injection into humans within the United States.

RFID SPREAD:
RFID is on the brink of mass deployment. The current cost of RFID tags is still too high for companies to fully embrace them, but the stated industry goal is to replace barcodes with RFID on most products within the next decade. Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, is leading the way by mandating its suppliers to adopt the Electronic Product Code (EPC) RFID standard on bulk packaging of products by January 2005. Given Wal-Mart’s general market force and the rush for RFID implementation after the Wal-mart mandate, Preemptive Media has tailored its first series of Zapped! initiatives for the “Wal-Mart scene.”


RFID Tag


RFID Reader


RFID System


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Nov
21

Zapped! Workshops

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WORKSHOPS
You may have heard the term RFID and possibly even brought one home unknowingly. But what exactly is a Radio Frequency Identification tag? Why are Wal-Mart, the Department of Defense and the Food & Drug Administration sinking big bucks into these little chips and paving the way for mass implementation?

After a brief overview of the technology and its related issues, each participant will receive a Zapped! RFID workbook. Participate in one of several hands-on exercises. You can to build your own RFID keychain detector that will ring, vibrate or light up when a RFID reader is within range and scanning the airwaves for data. Or program a RFID tag to “talk back” to a RFID reader that you may uncover with your Zapped! keychain.

Past Workshops:

Mass Art
Boston, MA
March 16, 2006

Break 2.3
Ljubljana, Slovenia
November 12, 2005

Eyebeam
New York City
July 14 + 15, 2005

Spring Independent School District
Houston
April 1, 2005

Diverseworks (for local high school groups)
Houston
March 30, 2005

New Langton Arts
San Francisco
January 22, 2005

Spectropolis
New York City
October 2, 2004

 

 

Zapped! Workshop, Houston, April, 2005


Zapped! Keychain Circuit, 2005


Zapped! Workshop, Eyebeam, New York, 2005

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