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After over a half century of development, radio-frequency identification (RFID) is beginning to move into mainstream applications for automatic identification. RFID is widely seen today as one of the key enabling technologies of the “Internet of Things”. However, many challenges still need to be addressed before we can fully benefit from this nascent and ubiquitous technology. In this paper, we present the state of the art of RFID technology and discuss the challenges and open issues in developing next generation RFID applications.
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There are about 50,000 billion things on the Earth.
Ghost reads occur when an RFID reader “reads” an identifier that is not stored on any tag within the reader’s field.
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Sheng, Q.Z., Zeadally, S., Luo, Z. et al. Ubiquitous RFID: Where are we?. Inf Syst Front 12, 485–490 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-009-9212-x
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