General RFID Links
From RFID Guardian
Web Resources
Part I - General RFID Resources
Part II - RFID Applications
Part III - RFID Security and Privacy
Security and Privacy Researchers
Airports
- General Information
- Helping Bags Make Their Flights - Article from the RFID Journal
- RFID Baggage Tag Standards - Article about the new IATA Standard for Baggage Tags
- RFID Trials at Airports
Animal Tracking
- Tracking pets with RFID - Article from the Washington Times
- Pet Identification Troubles - Lack of RFID pet tag standards may hinder the identification of lost pets
Anti-RFID Viewpoints
- Organizations:
- Campaigns:
- Spychips - CASPIAN's anti-RFID webpage
- METRO Future Store - A tour of the Metro Extra "Future Store", courtesy of CASPIAN and FoeBuD
- Articles:
- RFID privacy concerns are global - General article about RFID privacy
- RFID: Tracking everything, everywhere - essay by Katherine Albrecht
Automatic Payment
- E-ZPass - RFID-based automatic toll payment system
- Mastercard PayPass - RFID-enhanced credit card for contactless payment
- Speedpass - ExxonMobil's RFID-based gas payment system
Drivers Licenses
- Controversy in Virginia - ACLU urges Virginia not to put RFID in drivers licenses
Events
- Forthcoming Events - A list of worldwide RFID-related events, from UsingRFID.com
Hacking RFID Systems
- RF-Dump - Lukas Grunwald's tool for unauthorized RFID tag reading
- RFIDJournal.com - Research team cracks the Texas-Instruments DST transponder
- ProxCard Cloner / ProxCard Mark II - Jonathan Westhues' Proximity card cloning device
- Dutch RFID e-passport cracked - Riscure cracks security on Dutch prototype e-Passport
- EPC Tags Subject to Phone Attacks - Adi Shamir easily cracks kill passwords for Gen 1 EPC tags.
Healthcare
- Cypack - RFID-based "paper computers" for smart pharmaceutical packaging
- Surgichip - RFID-based smart-label system for surgery patients
- VeriMed - Subdermal RFID patient identification system
- Blood tracking - Hospital in Germany uses RFID to tag patients and bags of blood
History of RFID
- Charles Walton - One of the inventors of passive RFID
- Genesis of the Versatile RFID Tag - The origins of passive read/write RFID tags
- Shrouds of Time - A firsthand account of the history of RFID
- The History of RFID - Another nice historical article from the RFID Journal
Inductively-Powered Computing
- PIN-on-Card - Cypak's contactless smart card with an integrated PIN keypad
- RFID Music Player - Prototype system that plays C64 SID-encoded music files from RFID tags
Introduction to RFID
- BISG's RFID Resources - A collection of RFID articles
- RFID Wikipedia Entry - A good all-around introduction to RFID
- RFID Journal FAQ - A large list of Frequently Asked Questions about RFID
Legislation
- Proposed Legislation:
- California - SB 682 - Bill introduced by Senator Simitian
- Articles:
- More About SB 682 - Article from the LibraryLaw blog, explaining SB 682
Libraries
- Best Practices - Berkeley Public Library's Best Practices for RFID Technology
- RFID in Libraries - Blog discussing technological and privacy issues for library RFID
- RFID Gazette: Libraries - RFID Gazette's news coverage of RFID deployment in libraries
Local Resources
- AIM Nederland - Netherlands-branch of Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM)
- Bits of Freedom - RFID dossier of the Dutch privacy-watchdog organization
- Dutch RFID - Blog about RFID in the Netherlands
- PEARL - 'Privacy Enhancing Architecture for RFID Labels' project proposal
- RFID Kenniscentrum - Dutch RFID Knowledge Center
- RFID Platform Nederland - Dutch RFID consortium
Manufacturers/Vendors
Major vendors:
- Alien Technology
- Philips Semiconductors - Philips Identification (home of I.Code/U.Code/MIFARE)
- Texas Instruments - TI-RFid
- Sun Microsystems - EPC and RFID middleware development
- Verichip - Produces subdermal RFID chips
And a few others:
- [Trackway]
- [Skyetec]
- [Tricon]
- [Capturetech]
- [Reva Systems]
- [SICK]
Manufacturing
- Manufacturing Gains in Efficiency - Article from RFID Journal
News Sites
- RFID Buzz
- RFIDetail- Last known update
- RFID Gazette
- RFID in Japan
- RFID Journal
- RFID Weblog
Open-Source Projects
- Open-Source RFID Project List - A list of open-source RFID projects
- The Radioactive Foundation - Collection of three EPCglobal-related projects: Neutrino, Fusion, and Gravitron
- librfid - Implementation of the ISO 14443/15693 standards
- RFID C library - C API for RFID readers
- rfid-perl - Perl API for RFID readers from different manufacturers
- SensorBean - WebServices based middleware for capturing and managing RFID sensor data
- Singularity - Open-source EPCglobal middleware project
- SLRRP - Simple Lightweight RFID Reader Protocol
Organizations
- AIM Global - An automatic-identification industrywide consortium
- Auto-ID Labs - A major worldwide RFID research consortium
- EPCglobal Inc. - The major RFID-specific standards organization
- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31/WG 4 (Last known update) - The ISO/IEC workgroup that creates RFID standards
Passports
- Machine Readable Travel Documents - ICAO's official page describing the new RFID passports
- US Tests e-Passports - Article from RFID Journal
Passport Security
- ACLU + RFID Passports - This page describes the ACLU's take on RFID passports
- Schneier on Security - Bruce Schneier's analysis of RFID passport security
- RFID Passports at CFP - Edward Hasbrouck's report on passport eavesdropping at the 2005 CFP conference
- Feds Rethinking RFID Passport - US State Dept. to reconsider the design of the new RFID passports
- Dutch RFID e-passport cracked - Dutch firm Riscure decrypts Dutch prototype passport
Privacy Concerns
- EPIC's RFID Privacy Page - Webpage discussing the privacy threats against RFID technology
- EFF's RFID Page - The Electronic Frontier Foundation's position on the use of RFID
- Surpriv - Ross Stapleton-Gray's blog about RFID Surveillance and Privacy
Security and Privacy Research
- Gildas Avoine's paper archive - Archive of academic papers related to RFID security and privacy
- RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy - Excellent new book, edited by Simson Garfinkel
- RFID Privacy Workshop - The first workshop of its kind, hosted by MIT
- RSA Security - Pioneers in RFID security and privacy research
- Workshop on RFID and Lightweight Crypto - A more recent workshop, hosted by TU Graz
Security and Privacy Researchers
- Gildas Avoine
- Martin Feldhofer
- Ari Juels
- David Molnar
- Melanie Rieback
- Sanjay Sarma
- Sarah Spiekermann
- Stephen Weis
Sensors
- Bacterial Detection - Auburn University's bacterial detection RFID tags
- Humidity Sensors - Article discussing DeltaTRAK's RFID-base FlashLink wireless temperature and humidity sensors
- Motion Sensors - Article describing Axcess' active motion sensor RFID tags
- Radiation Detection - Axcess' active radiation-detection RFID tag
- Temperature Sensors (Last known update) - KSW Microtec's active RFID temperature sensor tags
- Tire Pressure (Last known update) - Michelin's RFID-based tire pressure sensors
Supermarkets
- Speeding Through Checkout Lines - Wired Magazine's analysis of the Metro Future Store
- Tesco Begins RFID Rollout - RFID Journal article describing Tesco's RFID trials
Supply Chain Management
- Albertsons - Information about RFID deployment at Albertsons
- Metro Future Store - Metro Group's RFID "Store of the Future"
- Wal-Mart - The largest corporate deployer of RFID
- Wal-Mart (RFID Gazette) - RFID Gazette's news coverage of Wal-Mart's RFID trials
Transportation
- Octopus Card - Wikipedia description of Hong Kong's RFID-based mass transit card
- OV Chipkaart - Dutch RFID-based public transportation pass (page in Dutch)
Misc RFID-Related Websites
[Wikipedia RFID] [Wikipedia RFID related pages] [Startpagina RFID (NL)] [Forbes A Hacker's Guide To RFID] [The Nation The Trouble with RFID] [RFID Platform (NL)] [Csmonitor Can your razor blade spy on you?] [Ross Mayfield's Blog RFID Hacks] [The Guardian Tesco tests spy chip technology] [Standards for the Electronic Product Code (EPC)] [RFID shield Can Aluminum Shield RFID Chips?]
