The Real Deal In RFID

Sometimes it seems like everything is incredibly complicated and then something comes along that is really simple.

I've been taking some photos for our web site today and, as part of that, we wanted to get some shots of a new RFID reader that plugs into a USB port on a laptop. Our techie guys had said that not only was this little thing very neat but it was easy to use. Plug it in they said, It doesn't need any software.

So, since I hardly ever get to play with any of this technology, I thought I would have a go with this. Plugged the beasty into a USB port, opened an empty Word document and waved some tags at it. Voila, instant RFID reading, with each tag ID appearing in the Word document just as if I'd typed it there. Of course it's not much of an application but as a way of demonstrating the simplicity of RFID it's hard to beat!