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Part II
Lewis Bourne on 09 December 2002 at 09:45 said:-
[Snip]
My apologies for including all the relevant text like this (In two parts),
but I could not access the ftp server the archives are stored on to provide
the link, and I do think it all has relevance in the context of this
discussion.
Ian W
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"We'll put a radio frequency ID tag on everything that moves in
the North American supply chain," says Mr. Van Fleet [of International
Paper]. He said anywhere from 2 percent to 7 percent of products
are stolen or misplaced during distribution, and the new smart tags
will let companies like his track them down on a per-item basis.
[snip] Power Paper Ltd. of Israel is collaborating with International
Paper to combine its flat, flexible battery with a microchip that
can be put into interactive packages. International Paper estimates
that more than 500 million smart packages will be used within three
years to sell everything from French fries to electronics. Says
Baruch Levanon, head of Power Paper, "Most of the technology for
smart packages already exists. We just need to integrate it."
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/03/29/fp13s1-csm.shtml
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Tulsa, Oklahoma is the site of this summer's (2001) most innovative
experiment in inventory management....The Auto-ID Center is wiring
the entire city with analog radio-frequency gear that can track
packages equipped with microchips. The system will make it possible
to track inventory as it moves from point to point across the city.
"We're putting RFID [radio-frequency identification] chips on
everything that moves." [snip] The Auto-ID Center's vision is for
[product] identification numbers [to] be transmitted by RFID tags
to a global network of receivers along the supply chain-at airports,
seaports, highways, distribution centers, and retail stores.
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle?doc_id=IWK20010618S00
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the widespread implementation of RFID technology could mean a leap
forward, owing to the ability of RFID tags to be read without
actually being in view. Bar code labels, by comparison, must be
seen in order to be scanned.
http://209.35.212.232/news/2001/12_01/1226/last/news_main.htm
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P&G would know exactly when and what consumers are buying.
http://www.e-moticart.com/cast/forum/principal.html
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Hitachi Europe is looking at the banknote market. The company's
Information Systems Group has developed a smart tag chip called
Minimum Meu, which measures 0.3mm square and is just 60 microns
thick: about the thickness of a human hair. "A banknote is about
100 microns thick, so the chip could be put inside one," says Peter
Jones, the company's pre-sales manager. Mass-production of the new
chip will start within a year. It has "attracted a lot of interest
and will be a very cost-effective solution," says Mr Jones. [snip]
In China smart tags are being developed to identify people for tax
and insurance purposes.
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT30414MGWC
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The European Central Bank is working with technology partners on
a hush-hush project to embed radio frequency identification tags
into the very fibers of euro bank notes by 2005. In theory, an
RFID tag's ability to read and write information to a bank note
could make it very difficult, for example, for kidnappers to ask
for "unmarked" bills. Further, a tag would give governments and
law enforcement agencies a means to literally "follow the money"
in illegal transactions. The RFID allows money to carry its own
history by recording information about where it has been.
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011219S0016
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Kevin Ashton, executive director of the Auto-ID Center, concedes
there's a Brave New World feel to it all, but adds, "The dollar
value of this opportunity, well . . . there's so many zeros on the
end of it that it's hard to make people believe you."
http://www.mindfully.org/Food/The-Code.htm (originally at:
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2660904-9,00.htm
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but the link has expired)
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Ashton acknowledges that consumers and businesses alike might be
very uncomfortable with a system in which the police could find
out detailed information about everything in a car's trunk without
opening it.
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,,15024,FF.html
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One of the greatest challenges facing the creators of such an
infrastructure will be finding ways to allow consumers to opt in
or out of the system as it becomes more pervasive. "It's not clear
how that's going to happen," [says Sanjay E. Sarma, an MIT professor
and co-director of the Auto-ID Center] "But it's important if
companies want to prevent a public backlash against these systems."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21933
(originally at http://www.india-today.com/ctoday/20010616/marvels.html)
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"Any one piece of information"--cell phone records, purchasing
records, car location--"is not that damning or intrusive. But if
you put them together, you've got my life," [security researcher
David] Holtzman said. "It's very hard to hide things when you have
that level of analysis." Even if these uses aren't what retailers
and manufacturers have in mind, technology has a way of creeping
into other domains, Holtzman added. Transponders for driving through
electronic tollbooths started as a convenience to drivers but now
are used in combination with timing analysis to send out speeding
tickets, for example.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-833379.html
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The United States Department of Defense and the United States Postal
Service are among the 85 sponsor companies and organizations funding
the Auto-ID research project. For a partial list of donors who
have contributed a minimum of $300,000 to the project, see:
www.autoidcenter.org/sponsors_companies.asp
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Search engine advice: If you plan to run your own search on this
technology, use the phrase "Auto-ID Center," not "Auto-ID." (The
latter is a generic phrase for any contactless ID system, including
barcodes).
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