Radio frequency identification: Ubiquity for humanity

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Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 4-14

  Srivastava, Lara ^a  

^a ITU New Initiatives Programme Director with the Strategy and Policy Unit   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Data security; Identification; Networking; Privacy; Radio frequencies

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; RADIO WAVE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 33846408284     PISSN: 14636697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636690710725030     Document Type: Review

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