Transcription of Chapter 2 UNDERSTANDING RFID TECHNOLOGY
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Page 15 Thursday, June 2, 2005 11:56 PM. Chapter 2. UNDERSTANDING rfid . TECHNOLOGY . Simson Garfinkel Henry Holtzman 1. Introduction T his Chapter presents a technical introduction to the rfid , the Electronic Product Code (EPC), and the Object Name Service (ONS). It then looks at two speci c rfid applications that have been elded over the past ten years. rfid TECHNOLOGY Most histories of rfid trace the TECHNOLOGY back to the radio-based identi ca- tion system used by Allied bombers during World War II. Because bombers could be shot down by German anti-aircraft artillery, they had a strong incen- tive to y bombing missions at night because planes were harder for gunners on the ground to target and shoot down. Of course, the Germans also took advantage of the cover that darkness provided.
16 CHAPTER 2 UNDERSTANDING RFID TECHNOLOGY Shortly after the war, an engineer named Harry Stockman realized that it is possible to power a mobile transmitter …
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