Mobile RFID (M-RFID) are services that provide information on objects equipped with an

RFID tag Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder, a radio receiver and transmitter. When triggered by an electromag ...

over a telecommunication network. The reader or interrogator can be installed in a mobile device such as a

mobile phone A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive telephone call, calls over a radio freq ...

or PDA. Unlike ordinary fixed RFID, mobile RFID readers are mobile and the tags fixed, instead of the other way around. The advantages of M-RFID over RFID include the absence of wires to fixed readers and the ability of a small number of mobile readers can cover a large area, instead of dozens of fixed readers. The main focus is on supporting supply chain management. But this application has also found its way in

m-commerce The term mobile commerce was originally coined in 1997 by Kevin Duffey at the launch of the Global Mobile Commerce Forum, to mean "the delivery of electronic commerce capabilities directly into the consumer’s hand, anywhere, via wireless techno ...

. The customer in the supermarket can scan the

Electronic Product Code The Electronic Product Code (EPC) is designed as a universal identifier (using a idiosyncratic numerical code for each different commodity) that provides a unique identity for every physical object anywhere in the world, for all time. The EPC stru ...

from the tag and connects via the internet to get more information. ISO/IEC 29143 "Information technology — Automatic Identification and Data Capture Technique — Air Interface specification for Mobile RFID interrogator" ] ISO/IEC 29143 "Information technology — Automatic Identification and Data Capture Technique
/ref> is the first standard to be developed for Mobile RFID.

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