RFID Guide, RFID and Environmental Issues, Wal-Mart and RFID: A Case
Study
RFID Technology and Architecture, RFID Standards,RFID Applications,
RFID Security, Impact of RFID Tags on Recycling, Environmental
Challenges of RFID, RFID Tags: Advantages and Limitations,
Parts of that seem awfully simplistic and light on detail.
Can anyone, for example, provide a list of frequencies and mfgr
chipsets that are commonly being used by any specific vendor or
group of vendors?
Make magazine, current issue
www.makezine.com on the shelves now
has a project on page 160 with a supplier for the parts that will
let you build a sub-$100 RFID scanner that uses 125khz and one
particular mfgr's chipset. That will be incompatible with every
other frequency and mfgr's chipset and it isn't clear what RFID
chips are even commonly available that this will scan.
A few other protoboards can be found via google that are sub $100
and support one frequency and mfgr's chips.
But I haven't been able to find any information on "Company X uses
frequency Y and mfgr's Z chipset" in my searches.
NONE of this is for any malicious agenda on my part. Someone said
he knew he was carrying several RFID embedded cards and wondered
if it was possible for him to be able to read these. So I started
looking to see if it was feasible to create a general purpose low
cost consumer reader. Thus far this isn't looking promising.
