NEC Claims World’s First Multi-Frequency, Multi-Protocol RFID Reader/Writer
Written by Evan SchumanSeptember 6th, 2007
The vendor is pledging to shrink these devices—which can both read and write in three major RFID frequencies—for near-term mobile phone and POS integration.
When NEC issued its statement in Tokyo Thursday that it has developed the world's first RFID device that can read and write tag data in the three most common RFID frequencies, it gave a boost for today's RFID deployments.
But NEC's focus was not on the new product as much as its pledge to imminently shrink the device enough so that it can be installed within mobile phones, PCs and retail point-of-sale (POS) units.
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Is there really an improvement between a mag swipe and contactless tap if multi-factor authentication is required?
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