[LINK] Simple animation about RFID tags

[Howard Lowndes]

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 09:48, Karl Schaffarczyk wrote:
> At 12:11 PM +1100 24/2/04, jeff.evans at iird.vic.gov.au wrote:
> >Here's a small Flash animation that maybe of interest to those wanting to
> >explain RFID in retail. It does have a >>black screen<< mention about
> >privacy concerns...
> >
> >Visualize: How RFID Works
> >With Wal-Mart directing its suppliers to attach radio-frequency
> >identification (RFID) tags to product shipment pallets by 2005, the
> >technology is finally coming into its own. This animated infographic shows
> >how RFID will automate the supply chain, from an object's manufacture to
> >its arrival at a consumer's home.
> >      < http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/visualize0304.asp?trk=nl >
> >
> >Regards
> 
> 
> Jeff, Link,
> are the E-tags on Sydney and Melbourne motorways in fact RFID tags?
> 
> if so, does this mean we'll be able to stick a credit card on the 
> dashboard when driving on those motorways, or use drivethrough 
> shopping pickup and pay with the eway toll tag?

Perhaps you've not been to SG.  There you put your smartcard into the
windscreen box and it reads the detail and debits the account.  Same for
the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) system.

> 
> Maybe these are silly examples, but I am wondering how far it might go......
> 
> 
> Hey! those RFID tags in the animation look just like the ones I've 
> recently peeled from the back of DVDs at a large retail outlet - are 
> those tage just security tags or is RFID technology already here and 
> used on a widespread basis?
> 
> Karl
> =8)
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