RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION

(RFID)

By Jay Chahal

3 DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS OF RFID

Navigation systems for the visually impaired – to help

people with a walking stick can help them know where

things are.

Clothes – RFID can be used in shoes and clothing to make

access to different things easier to do.

Smart dust – RFID tags will become so small one day and

that they will be all over the world and updating how the

world looks in a real time manner.

RFID REPLACING BAR CODES

Today when we shop we can use a till or a self check out service,

this is used by scanning our items through a scanner, as time

progresses RFID will become smaller and smaller to a point were

they will be nano-scopic and can be placed on food packaging so

instead of scanning each individual item through we can just put

our shopping in a trolley and walk out the shop and everything

would be scanned through in a second and the total price would

be added up and people can use contactless cards to pay a lot

faster. Services using RFID will increase service speed.