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An Investigation of Using Time and Ambient Conditions to Sense the Unexpected Removal of RFID Tag

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The unexpected RFID tag removal is a severe problem to RFID-based information system. It can result in erroneous asset identification, mismatched item-level information, and such security threats as impersonation or identity theft. However, only very few scholars and practitioners have ever carefully investigated this problem and managed to solve it. On the other hand, many firms are going to tag their overall assets, products, etc. with RFID tags, but they are currently either clueless about the problem or limited in the choices for solving it. This study presents a solution prototype of integrating time and ambient conditions to sense the RFID tag unexpected removal in an autonomous and secured way.

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    Yuju Tu

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  1. Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia

    Robin Doss

  2. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Selwyn Piramuthu

  3. Information & Operations Management, ESCP Europe, PARIS, France

    Wei Zhou

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Tu, Y. (2019). An Investigation of Using Time and Ambient Conditions to Sense the Unexpected Removal of RFID Tag. In: Doss, R., Piramuthu, S., Zhou, W. (eds) Future Network Systems and Security. FNSS 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34353-8_14

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