Ms Tafirenyika doesn’t know what the future holds. RFID tags won’t entirely replace bar codes in the near future — far too many retail outlets currently use UPC scanners in billions of transactions every year. RFID tags are intelligent bar codes that can talk to a networked system to track every product that you put in your shopping cart. No longer will you have to wait as someone rings up each item in your cart one at a time. Instead, these RFID tags will communicate with an electronic reader that will detect every item in the cart and ring each up almost instantly. Going through the checkout line involves the same process of scanning each bar code on each item. The name “inductively coupled” comes from this process — the magnetic field inducts a current in the wire. These original tags, called inductively coupled RFID tags, were complex systems of metal coils, antennae and glass. Inductively coupled and capacitively coupled RFID tags aren’t used as commonly today because they are expensive and tote factory bulky. Newer innovations in the RFID industry include active, semi-active and passive RFID tags.

Some critics say RFID technology is becoming too much a part of our lives — that is, if we’re even aware of all the parts of our lives that it affects. Let’s look at two types of RFID tags and how they store and transmit data before we move past grocery store purchase­s to human lives. Data stored on RFID tags can be changed, updated and locked. Data­ stored within an RFID tag’s microchip waits to be read. The reader picks up the tag’s radio waves and interprets the frequencies as meaningful data. An active tag also uses its battery to broadcast radio waves to a reader, whereas a semi-passive tag relies on the reader to supply its power for broadcasting. In this article, you’ll learn about the types of RFID tags and how these tags can be tracked through the entire supply chain. In the fact, there are a lot of shops do not supply the best jersey to maximize their profits.

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