RF in RFID

This book includes a survey of all RFID fundamentals and practices in the first part of the book while the second part focuses on UHF passive technology. This coverage of UHF technology and its components including tags, readers, and antennas is essential to commercial implementation in supply chain logistics and security. Readers of this book should have an electrical engineering background but have not yet dealt with RFID. To this end, Dr. Dobkin will be very careful to illustrate all concepts and detail his explanations meticulously. In this way he will bring the reader along organically showing him/her what to expect, develop, and use while implementing an RFID system.It includes: chapter 1: Introduction; chapter 2: History and Practice of RFID; chapter 3: Radio Basics For UHF RFID; chapter 4: UHF RFID Readers; chapter 5: UHF RFID Tags; chapter 6: Reader Antennas; chapter 7: Tag Antennas; and chapter 8: UHF RFID Protocols. Afterword includes Appendix 1: Radio Regulations; Appendix 2: Harmonic Functions; Appendix 3: Resistance, Impedance and Switching; and Appendix 4: Reflection and Matching. This technology is happening now at major chain stores such as Wal-Mart and Target. RFID revenues are estimated to soar about $7 billion by 2008. The CD-ROM includes full color images, spreadsheets, an open-source example graphical user interface, and demo versions of commercial software.