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- Let's get rid of usernames and passwords for good
- RE: Let's get rid of usernames and passwords for goodIf you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology. -Bruce SchneierCommon sense & best practicesFirst off social networking sites are a DISASTER waiting to happen, private data into a...
- Tags: password, security
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Wildlife and Environmental Monitoring Using RFID and WSN Technology
- Wireless Sensor Networks enable scientists to collect information about the environment with a granularity unseen before, while providing numerous challenges to software designers. Since sensor devices are often powered by small batteries, which take considerable effort to replace, it is of major importance to use energy carefully. The paper presents...
- Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, RFID, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-11-06
- Demo Abstract: Measuring Foot Pronation Using RFID Sensor Networks
- Running efficiency is an important factor to consider in order to avoid injury. In particular, foot pronation, the angle of the foot as it hits the ground, is a common cause for many types of injuries among runners. Though pronation is common, diagnosing pronation is difficult and imprecise. Currently there...
- Tags: Network, Injury, Sensor, Association For Computing Machinery, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2009-11-06
- Recognizing Daily Activities With RFID-Based Sensors
- This paper explores a dense sensing approach that uses RFID sensor network technology to recognize human activities. In the setting, everyday objects are instrumented with UHF RFID tags called WISPs that are equipped with accelerometers. RFID readers detect when the objects are used by examining this sensor data, and daily...
- Tags: Sensor, RFID, Networking, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2009-10-03
- IBM launches sensor data analysis software
- IBM on Tuesday launched software that navigates data from sensors and triggers automated business responses. The software, dubbed WebSphere Sensor Events, aggregates data from sensors that monitor air quality, traffic, water flow, energy usage and other items via RFID tags. IBM reckons that there will be six...
- Tags: Data Analysis, Software, Sensor, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- System Framework and Its Application in Mobile RFID Service Network
- Mobile RFID Radio Frequency Identification is a newly emerging technology which uses the mobile phone as an RFID reader with a wireless technology and provides new valuable services to the user by integrating RFID and ubiquitous sensor network infrastructure with mobile communication and wireless internet. UHF Mobile RFID technology is...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, UHF Mobile RFID Technology, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2009-07-11
- Apple files patents for object and facial recognition for the iPhone
- MacRumors notes that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published "several dozen" patent applications this morning including an interesting one that covers object and facial recognition, messaging, and voice modulation. Unwired View took a closer look at one patent filed on March...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Patent, Facial Recognition, Apple Inc., Camera, Object Recognition Patent, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- Web Squared: Web 2.0's Successor?
- Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle discussed their vision and nomenclature for the next iteration of the web in a webinar last Thursday: I believe the recording will be available online sometime this week, slides are above. With the term 'Web 2.0' enjoying its fifth birthday...
- Tags: Web, ISBN, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-28
- Extension of RFID Middleware for Active Sensor Tags
- RFID of the wire frequency receives the most attention as main technology for making ubiquitous computing. The first RFID development concentrated on the tags attached on the something and recognizing automatically the wire frequency in hardware. But, latest, It has increased to concern about the middleware which perform the collect,...
- Tags: RFID, Middleware, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-05-31
- Interview with Andrea Vaccari, research associate at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory
- Now that machine and sensor data is joining social data traffic on the Internet, the ability to interpret and create meaning out of the information to improve life could be the post-Web 2.0 manifesto. MIT's Senseable City Lab has been on the task for years with various...
- Tags: City, Mobile, Network, Data, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cell Phone, Analysis, SENSEable City Laboratory, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- An Empirical Study of an RFID Mat Sensor System in a Group Home
- This paper has been developing an RFID Radio Frequency Identification mat system to assist caregivers in a group home. In Japan, the number of group homes offering home-like care for elderly persons suffering from dementia has increased considerably. Even though the smaller number of people residing in a group home...
- Tags: Home, Academy Publisher, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2009-04-01
- A Low-Resource Public-Key Identification Scheme for RFID Tags and Sensor Nodes
- Using a combination of new and established space-saving methods, the paper presents a full-fledged public key identification scheme, which is secure yet highly efficient. The 1024-bit scheme fits completely including RAM into 4682 gate equivalents and has a mean current consumption of 14.2 µA. The main novelty in their implementation...
- Tags: Identification, Association For Computing Machinery, RAM, RFID Tag, Memory, RFID, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2009-03-18
- A Hardware Authentication Architecture for Pervasive Devices
- This paper presents a hardware implementation for the HB++ authentication protocol. The design is efficient enough to be used in resource constrained pervasive devices like RFID tags or sensor motes. The architecture has been developed targeting the RFID environment, it has 8 bit data path along with a control unit...
- Tags: Hardware, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2009-02-23
- Design and Development of a Novel Paper-Based Inkjet-Printed RFID-Enabled UHF (433.9 MHz) Sensor Node
- In this paper, inkjet-printed RFID-enabled sensor modules are investigated for the first time on paper-based substrates for UHIF sensing/monitoring applications. An inkjet-printed antenna using silver nano particles on paper substrate is presented and utilized for the compact implementation of the wireless part of the node. The efficiency of the modulation...
- Tags: Inkjet Printer, Substrate, Node, IEEE, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility
- White papers 2008-12-15
- Experimental Evaluation of Read Performance for RFID-Based Mobile Sensor Data Gathering Applications
- This paper considers RFID-based sensing applications enabled by passive or semi-passive tags and mobile devices equipped with readers. The paper experimentally investigates the feasibility of such RFID-based mobile sensor data gathering applications, focusing on UHF RFID devices and indoor scenarios. The paper examines the impact of various factors, including reader...
- Tags: Performance, Mobile, Feasibility, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2008-12-05
- Multiscan-Based Map Optimizer for RFID Map-Building With Low-Accuracy Measurements
- This paper studies the problem of mobile robot map-building using a low-accuracy RFID sensor. In recent years, there has been increasing number of mobile robot systems using RFID landmarks. A difficulty arises from the fact that the characteristics of RFID sensors are quite electrically-sensitive, which makes the map-building process difficult...
- Tags: Sensor, RFID, Robots, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Emerging Technologies
- White papers 2008-11-11
- Design of an RFID-Based Battery-Free Programmable Sensing Platform
- This paper presents the Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform WISP, which is a programmable battery-free sensing and computational platform designed to explore sensor-enhanced Radio Frequency Identification RFID applications. WISP uses a 16-bit ultralow-power microcontroller to perform sensing and computation while exclusively operating from harvested RF energy. Sensors that have successfully...
- Tags: Microcontroller, Electronic Product Code, Battery, WISP, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2008-11-01
- Approach to Learning Research With Wireless Sensor Networks in an Outdoor Setting
- Automated collection of environmental data may be accomplished with Wireless Sensor Networks WSNs. In this paper, a general discussion of WSNs is given for the gathering of data for educational research. WSNs enhance the scope of a researcher to include multiple streams of data: environmental, cyberdata, video, and RFID. A...
- Tags: Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless
- White papers 2008-10-27
- Experimental Results With Two Wireless Power Transfer Systems
- This paper describes two wireless power transfer systems. The Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform WISP is a platform for sensing and computation that is powered and read by a commercial off-the-shelf UHF (915MHz) RFID reader. WISPs are small sensor devices that consume on the order of 2uW to 2mW, and...
- Tags: University Of Washington, Wireless, WISP, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility
- White papers 2008-10-16
- Implementation of a Security System Based on RFID and WSN Technology
- Over the last few year the author has observed a convergence of Wireless Sensor Networks WSNs and RFID systems. In the next generation "Super RFID technology" traditional passive tags will be replaced using dedicated WSNs that extend standard tags to allow data acquisition and data storage, e.g. for monitoring purposes....
- Tags: Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless, Wireless Sensor Network Node, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2008-09-18
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