Essays on RFID

Despite public means about contactless card security, an industry expert says contactless technology is far superior to the existing magnetic stripe. These contactless are a pocket-sized card with embedded integrated circuits which has the ability to process and store data, and communicate with terminals through radio waves. These cards have non-volatile memory components for storage, and also some specific security logic. They do not contain an ordinary’s read-only RFID, but have a re-writable microchip which can be transcribed through radio waves. Earlier in the course of the month Identity theft resource centre had released news about the investigation about the ...

Contactless payments such as the use of near field communication (NFL) have been developing over the last few years and have evolved into reliable and secure methods of payment which are gaining acceptance from both buyers and vendors. The contactless mode of payment uses a short range frequency identification chip (RFID) to transfer data embedded electronically in microchips attached to a mobile device such as a mobile phone or a personal digital assistant or a credit or a debit card. The major difference with the contact based mode of payment is that in the case of contactless payment, the user of the technology does not ...

Introduction

West Park Services is a ranching organization that has about 30,000 animals and about 500 employees. The employees are in different categories and they enjoy different privileges depending on their level of employment in the organization. The employees’ categories range from farm attendants, Support staff, Administrators, Managers and the Chief Executive officer. For a very long period of time, operations in the firm have been manual. This has led to low level of production as the firm cannot compete effectively with other competitors who have their operations computerized.

One of the major challenges facing the firm is security. Farm animals ...