January 26th, 2005
Technology Could Speed Border Crossings
by: Stuart

RFID me please. This is another great way to use RFID to speed things up.

With RFID technology, people or objects are identified automatically and swiftly. That allows vehicles outfitted with the technology to zip through toll plazas without stopping but won’t at the border. People and vehicles still will have to stop, but if their identifying data produce no red flags, they will get just a cursory check rather than lengthy questioning.

The chip with the identifying information would be placed in a document, such as the State Department-issued border crossing cards for those who regularly make short trips across the Mexican border.

The chip is attached to an antenna that transmits a signal to a handheld or stationary reader, which converts the radio waves from the RFID tag into a code that links to identifying biometrical information in a computer database read by border agents.

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Info: Posted January 26th, 2005  in Gadgets, Mobile, RF & RFID, Services, Software


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