Radio frequency identification RFID Opportunities for mobile telecommunication services

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Radio frequency identification (RFID)
Opportunities for mobile telecommunication
services ______________
Sanjay Chandra
Assocham - April 06 Saitel
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Outline

• What is RFID? How RFID works, Current
  Applications, Booming Markets, Constraints
• RFID and standardization Key players, Need for
  standardization, Suggestions for ITU-Ts SGs
• RFID and mobile telecommunication Definition,
  Application Scenarios, Near Field
  Communications
• Conclusion

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What is RFID?How RFID works (1)

• Main components tags, antenna, readers
• Tags
• Size (Hitachis "µ-chip" 0.4mm x 0.4mm)
• Price (aim Rs.5 - tag)
• active lt-gt passive (difference in range)
• Readers
• stationary lt-gt mobile
• What to do with the data? Middleware

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What is RFID?How RFID works (2)
Activation Signal
Data
Data
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What is RFID?Examples of Current Applications (1)

• Transport and logisticstoll management,
  tracking of goods Security and access
  controltracking people (students etc.), control
  access to restricted areas
• Supply chain management item tagging,
  theft-prevention
• Medical and pharmaceutical applications
  identification and location of staff and
  patients, asset tracking, counterfeit protection
  for drugs

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What is RFID?Examples of Current Applications (2)

• Manufacturing and processing streamlining
  assembly line processes
• Agriculture tracking of animals, quality
  control
• Public sector passports, drivers licenses,
  counterfeit protection for bank notes, library
  systems

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What is RFID?Booming markets

• Analysts tremendous market-growth
• Problem estimates vs. guesstimates (remarkable
  differences in market volume, growth rates)
• Frost Sullivan 11.7 billion USD
  (2010)Research and Markets 3.8 billion USD
  (2011) IDTechEx 26.90 billion USD (2015)

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What is RFID?Constraints (1)

• Pricing ( Rs.5 - tag)
• Standards landscape
• Security and privacy issuesconsumers, policy
  makers, researchers

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What is RFID?Constraints (2)
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RFID and standardizationSome key players

• UN specialized agencies ICAO, ITU, UPU
• Global and regional standards developing
  organizations (SDOs)ISO, ETSI
• Private forums EPCglobal
• State driven initiativesTrai, Tec etc

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RFID and standardization Need for standardization

• Standardization needed
• Air Interface, Protocols
• Data Stuctures
• Conformance
• Applications
• Existing RFID standards lack
• Harmonization
• Global acceptance
• Cross-sector perspective
• Interoperability

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RFID and standardization

• Mobile RFID technologies (detailed in this
  presentation)
• Privacy/Security issues
• Impact of RFID on networks
• Internetworking Technologies
• RFID-Ipv6 mapping issues

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RFID and mobile telecommunication Definition

• Services that provide information on objects
  equipped with an RFID tag over a
  telecommunication network
• New idea
• Tags stationary
• Readers in mobile phone -gt mobile
• Applications possible where the mobile phone is
  equipped with tag AND reader

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RFID and mobile telecommunication Application
scenarios

• Information retrieval
• Data transmission
• Automated messaging
• Voice services
• Device integration
• Presence indication
• Mobile payment

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RFID and mobile telecommunication Near Field
Communication

• Short-range communication protocol (ISO/IEC
  standard)
• Near Field Communication (NFC) Forum driven by
  Nokia, Philips and Sony
• NFC-enabled phones available

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Conclusion

• Mobile phones RFID great potential
• Field trials only recently -gt search for "Killer
  application"
• Standardization "All star approach"
• Important topics include
• Privacy/Security issues
• Impact of RFID on networks
• Internetworking Technologies
• RFID-Ipv6 mapping issues

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• All facts and figures courtesy - ITU

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RFID Revolution or Evolution ?
Technology relying on RF transponders to
automatically retrieve data remotely using
RF signals Active RFID elements use their
own power source to send data Passive RFID
elements use power from readers to activate
Presently four main frequency bands used in RFID
systems Low Frequency band
125/134 KHz High Frequecy
band 13.56 MHz Ultra High
Frequency band 800-900 MHz
Microwave band 2.4-5.8 GHz RFID typically
imbedded in miniscule ASICs attached to objects
to be tracked RF readers detect the signals
to be processed and networked
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