GWU Course 6290 involves the study of emerging technologies &/or innovations. My graduate studies to date have led me to research radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies & subscribe to the RFID Journal; go to www.rfidjournal.com for more information.
In the July/August 2011 RFID Journal I came across the following article “RFID for Consumer Electronics – A new breed of UHF EPC Gen 2 ICs enables a myriad of applications.” The author Victor Vega describes how the electronics industry has advanced RFID technology, “coined ‘Interactive Gen 2”: a passive RFID integrated circuit (IC) embedded within the consumer electronic device’s printed circuit.” This new technology is expected to enable manufactures & resellers to do the following: 1) IC circuit to communicate with the microprocessor; 2) creating a unique tag identifier (TID); 3) prevent counterfeiting; 4) disable the laptop; 5) at the point of sale (POS) enable the unit with an authentication key; 6) configure the software while it is still in the box; 7) upload firmware patches & 8) maintain an error log should a hard drive fail.
The capability of communicating with a laptop or personal computer (PC) via an RFID device can allow for increased innovations beyond the 8 identified in the article. Key to the success of these or any future capabilities is acceptance by the user community, associated costs and the ability of the companies engineering this technology to market the resulting products. Respectfully – CDamian (09-15-2011)
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