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RFID Applications

Presented by: Renato Casipe


Date : May 3, 2010



RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)


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Radio Frequency Identification


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Tags objects


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Identifies object

RFID and The “Internet of Things”
(IoT)

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Key enabler


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MIT’s Auto
-
ID Center (1999)


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Internet of Things refers to a ubiquitous network
society in which a lot of objects are “connected.”

RFID Already a Part of Our Lives

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Keyless car entry


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Gas payment (i.e. Speedpass)


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Ski pass


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School ID

Sample RFID Applications

Credit Card


Sample RFID Applications

Toll Pass

Sample RFID Applications

Passport

Advantages of RFID over Barcode
(Source: CIO.com)

Advantages of RFID over Barcode
(Source: CIO.com)


Advantages of RFID over Barcode
(Source: CIO.com)


RFID System Structure

Yan et al., 2009

RFID Components



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Tag


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Coupling Units


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Chips


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Sensors


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Electronic Product Code (EPC)










RFID Components



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Reader


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Read



Write


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Mobile


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Fixed










RFID Components



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Antenna


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Transducer












RFID Components



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Backend System









Tag Types


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Passive

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No battery or onboard power source and

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Backscatter

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Active

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Onboard power source

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can transmit signals autonomously

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Semi
-
active / Semi
-
passive

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Small battery

Tag Classes

Tag Memory


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Passive tags can typically contain about 32 bits to
128 kilobyte of data.


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Active tags have up to 1 Megabyte of memory
(AIMGlobal, 2006).

Tag Frequencies

EPC

EPCglobal.org, 2010

EPC Minimalist Approach

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Functionality

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away from tag

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Into the network

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Electronic Product Code (EPC)

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Object Name Service (ONS )

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SAVANT

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Transponders

Major RFID Adopters


Wal
-
Mart


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22 distribution centers


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15,000 suppliers


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$2 fee/pallet without RFID tag


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By 2010

Major RFID Adopters

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Department of Defense


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RFID tagging will be required for all DoD manufacturers
and suppliers packaged within


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palletized unit


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to any DoD location

Major RFID Adopters

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Others


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USDA

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Animal tagging


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MasterCard and Visa

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Paypass and Wave


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Sun Microsystems

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Java System RFID Software




ROI Seen


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Tagging at container level


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Item level for higher value stuff


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Sensors

RFID Adoption Barriers


Privacy Concerns


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Cost


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ROI



Business Processes Change


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Standards


Privacy Concerns

Syverson et.al., 2005

Privacy Concerns


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Should EU RFID policy draft be implemented

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40% no; 15% Yes; 25% Needs modification; 20%
don’t know (RFID journal poll).

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New Hampshire HB 478 (vote of 186
-
170)

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Notification

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Disable on demand

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Human implantation on consent

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No tags on state issued id’s.






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o

Privacy Concerns


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Encryption algorithms


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Traditional Security features.





Privacy Concerns

Security Threat


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Corporate espionage threat


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Competitive marketing threat


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Infrastructure threat


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Trust perimeter threat



Privacy Threat


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Action


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Association


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Location


Privacy Threat


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Preference


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Constellation


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Transaction

Privacy Threat

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Breadcrumb


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Cloning

Privacy Threat

Some Solutions to Privacy Threat

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Killing


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Sleeping


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Password


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Pseudonyms



Some Solutions to Privacy Threat

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Encryption


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Proxy


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Blocking





Specific RFID Applications


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Product Monitoring



Online Payment


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Attendance System

RFID in Product Monitoring

RFID in Product Monitoring

RFID in Product Monitoring

RFID in Product Monitoring

RFID in Product Monitoring

RFID in Product Monitoring

RFID in Product Monitoring


RFID in Online Payment

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Motivating Scenario


Renato forgot his credit shopping at Lowe’s.



A miscreant consequently picks up Renato’s credit
card and uses it for unauthorized purchases online



Renato lost mental peace, and credit card company
waste resources investigating the dispute.



$11.6 Billion online payment transaction on 2009


Current credit card transaction for
remote shopping

Proposed architecture for remote
credit card transactions

System Operation


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Registration Phase



Transaction Phase



Reset Phase

Role of mobile
-
phone

Role of RFID tag



Store encrypted data

Role of keys

Registration Phase

Registration Flowchart

Activation Process

Mobile
-
phone flowchart

Transaction Phase

Reset Phase


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MRVKEY is deleted from MRVKEY table.



MRAKEY is rendered useless as a result as it can
not be validated from the middleware.


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Happens when security is breached.


Scenarios

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Loss RFID credit card



Loss mobile phone



Loss both

Other Applications

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Drug Index Safety System (DISS)

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Vials


Docking station

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2 letters


Limited colors


Force function


$50 billion problem counterfeiting



Other Applications

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Bicycle Safety

Other Applications


Warehousing


Space Time Array Readers (by Mojix)

Other Applications

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Security

Scariest Uses of RFID in 2007



http://www.rfidgazette.org/2007/04/top_15_weirde
st.html

Thank you for your attention….

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Partial List of References

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Mobile phone based RFID architecture for secure electronic Payments using RFID credit cards


Geethapriya Venkataramani and Srividya Gopalan


Applied Research Group, Satyam Computers Services Limited


SID Block, Entrepreneurship Centre, IISC Campus, Bangalore 560012, India


Email: {Geetha_Priya,
Srividya_Gopalan}@satyam.com



Application of RFID and Internet of Things in Monitoring and Anti
-
counterfeiting for Products


Bo Yan et al.


School of Economics and Commerce, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China


yanbo@scut.edu.cn



RFID Journal


March/April 2008


www.rfidjournal.com


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RFID +Certification

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By: Brown et al, 2007

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McGrawhill, Osborne