A transmitter/receiver that reads the contents of RFID tags in the vicinity. Also called an "RFID interrogator." The maximum distance between the reader's antenna and the tag vary, depending on ...

Conspiracy theorists and civil libertarians, fear not. The U.S. government will not use radio-frequency identification tags in the passports it issues to millions of Americans in the coming years.

Targeting the rapidly emerging market for embedded RFID readers, two companies are introducing low-cost multiprotocol RFID readers for installation in printers and other equipment. RFID reader ...

NEC has announced plans to launch a multi-format RFID card reader next April. A prototype of the new device, which is compatible with all three major wireless card formats along with a few others, was ...

DAILY RFID has recently launched LF/HF RFID Reader Module. It is compatible with 125KHz or 13.56MHz frequency chips just like EM4001, TK4100, I-CODE, Mifare-Family. The low-cost RFID reader module ...

In an ambitious project designed to provide citizens with a more secure form of identification, as well as a secure method for conducting business via the Internet, Germany will begin issuing ...

Point-of-use vending and dispensing helps manage and control the use of regularly required MRO, safety supplies, and high volume and high-value items, thus reducing waste, lowering cost, and ...

The project utilizes a PIC16F628A with an on-chip comparator in order to feed the output from the op-amp directly into the PIC and extract the digital signal from an RFID card reader. The use of ...

[Navic] wrote in to show us his latest project. This is a portable smart card reader with a nice LCD display. he just happened to have a Basic Stamp 2px, smart card reader, and smart card ...

All new MasterCards in Canada, as well as Visa cards from two of the big banks, supply cardholder info over radio waves. ((Canadian Press)) Most newly issued credit cards pose major fraud and privacy ...