RFID technical details

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Chapter 2

UNDERSTANDING RFID TECHNOLOGY
Simson Garnkel Henry Holtzman 1

Introduction
his chapter presents a technical introduction to the RFID, the Electronic Product Code (EPC), and the Object Name Service (ONS). It then looks at two specic RFID applications that have been elded over the past ten years.

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RFID Technology
Most histories of RFID trace the technology back to the radio-based identication system used by Allied bombers during World War II. Because bombers could be shot down by German anti-aircraft artillery, they had a strong incentive to y bombing missions at night because planes were harder for gunners on the ground to target and shoot down. Of course, the Germans also took advantage of the cover that darkness provid