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European Project Reaches Milestone Enabling Item-Level RFID Tags

Bidirectional communication for thin-film RFIDs

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Holst Centre, imec and their partners in the EU FP7 project ORICLA have fabricated the world’s first RFID (radio frequency identification) circuit made in low-temperature thin-film technology that allows reader-talks-first communication. The technology behind this prototype is indispensable to create RFID tags that are cheap enough and have enough performance to be used as intelligent item-level tags on the packaging of retail consumer goods. Such tags can be used to provide buyers with info...

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