RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Devices)-
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I. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Devices)- An Introduction: RFID is an automated data-capture technology that can be used to electronically identify, track, and store information about groups of products, individual items, or product components. The technology consists of three key pieces: RFID tags; RFID readers; and a data collection, distribution, and management system. RFID tags are small or miniaturized computer chips programmed with information about a product or with a number that corresponds to information that is stored in a database. The tags can be located inside or on the surface of the product, item, or packing material. RFID readers are querying systems that interrogate or send signals to the tags and receive the responses. These responses can be stored within the reader for later transfer to a data collection system or instantaneously transferred to the data collection system. Lastly, data collection systems consist of computers running data processing software, which...

