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TAG THE HOTTEST GROWTH IN WIRELESS With a predicted $10-billion market over the next decade, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a booming new wireless technology with an eager new audience—retailers. From global giant Wal-Mart down, RFID is being adapted to track inventories via microchip-tagged products. Popular technology writer Steven Shepard's RFID gives you an inside look at the entire arena, from the technology's staggering capabilities and potential, through insightful coverage of issues from vendors, implementation, and monitoring, to possible technical conflicts, market forecasts, and security. A must-read for both technical types and retailers, this book's need-to-know contents include: Defining RFID • Underlying Technologies • Technological Competitors • Future RFID Applications • RFID/3G/Bluetooth Coexistence • Implementation • Potential Roadblocks • RFID Security • RFID Chips, Readers, and Applications Sets • Short- and Long-Term Forecasts Steven Shepard is a professional writer and educator who specializes in international telecommunications. Formerly with Hill Associates, now president of Shepard Communications Group, he is the author of a number of well-received technical books including Telecom Crash Course, Telecom Convergence, SONET/SDH Demystified, and Optical Networking Crash Course. He lives and works in Williston, Vermont. Electric Review Interesting not only for the wealth of technical information presented, but also for the social issues that are revealed as a result of the way we now communicate. Recommended to all college-level libraries as a general reference text. Also should be considered by technical science instructors whose courses over-lap with this subject matter. A burgeoning area of study that is addressed in concrete and thorough terms. Publisher's Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. TAG THE HOTTEST GROWTH IN WIRELESS With a predicted $10-billion market over the next decade, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a booming new wireless technology with an eager new audienceretailers. From global giant Wal-Mart down, RFID is being adapted to track inventories via microchip-tagged products. Popular technology writer Steven Shepard's RFID gives you an inside look at the entire arena, from the technology's staggering capabilities and potential, through insightful coverage of issues from vendors, implementation, and monitoring, to possible technical conflicts, market forecasts, and security. A must-read for both technical types and retailers, this book's need-to-know contents Defining RFID Underlying Technologies Technological Competitors Future RFID Applications RFID/3G/Bluetooth Coexistence Implementation Potential Roadblocks RFID Security RFID Chips, Readers, and Applications Sets Short- and Long-Term Forecasts RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a wireless technology adapted by retailers to track inventories via a microchip tagged product. This book is a basic introduction, walking readers through the implementation and monitoring process, and offering in-depth coverage of related business and security issues. With estimates of the market as high as ten billion dollars over the next decade, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a booming new wireless technology being adapted by retailers to track inventories via a microchip tagged product. This book is a basic introduction, walking readers through the complete implementation and monitoring process, and offering in-depth coverage of related business and security issues. The contents include: Defining RFID; Underlying Technologies; Technological Competitors; Current RFID Applications; Future RFID Applications; RFID/WiFi/3G/Bluetooth Coexistence; Implementations; Potential Roadblocks; RFID Security; RFID Chips, Readers, and Application Sets; and Short and Long Term Forecasts "With a predicted $10-billion market over the next decade, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a booming new wireless technology with an eager new audience - retailers. Technology writer Steven Shepard's RFID gives you an inside look at the entire arena, from the technology's capabilities and potential, through coverage of issues from vendors, implementation, and monitoring, to possible technical conflicts, market forecasts, and security."--BOOK JACKET. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a wireless technology adapted by retailers to track inventories via a microchip tagged product. This technology book on RFID explains the underlying wireless technologies, walks potential users and suppliers through the implementation and monitoring process, and deals in depth with security issues. Consider for a moment the staggering chain of events that underlies the movement of mass market products from the producer to the buyer.