NFC

New Library RFID Tag with Built-in NFC Support

Submitted by Lori Ayre on Tue, 02/17/2015 - 4:00pm

NXP Semiconductors just announced a new chip, the ICODE SLIX 2, that they'll be incorporating in the RFID tags we use in libraries. RFID tags are composed of an antenna and a chip and adhesive backing. So this isn't a whole new tag but it will end up in a new tag eventually.

Library RFID Tag Technology and Smartphones

Submitted by Lori Ayre on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 5:00pm

If you haven't signed that RFID contract yet, you may want to set down your pen and check one thing....is the chip in your vendor's RFID tag capable of locking and password-protecting your content as well as the AFI and EAS registers? If not, don't sign that contract. Here's why....

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