{"id":158836,"date":"2023-02-23T15:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-tech-could-transform-phones-into-rfid-readers"},"modified":"2023-02-23T15:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T21:25:17","slug":"new-tech-could-transform-phones-into-rfid-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-tech-could-transform-phones-into-rfid-readers","title":{"rendered":"New tech could transform phones into RFID readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-tech-could-transform-phones-into-rfid-readers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The devices would not need batteries because they can harvest power from LTE signals instead.<\/p>\n<p>Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. This is a feature that would allow you to, for instance, know everything that is in your fridge and when it expires.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new technology developed by engineers at the University of California San Diego can allow that possibility, according to a press release published by the institution on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The innovation is the first backscatter integrated circuit that can enable wireless communication and battery-less operation coming from a single mobile device.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis approach enables a robust, low-cost and scalable way to provide power and enable communications in an RFID-like manner, while using smartphones as the devices that both read and power the signals,\u201d said Patrick Mercier, one of the new paper\u2019s senior authors and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The devices would not need batteries because they can harvest power from LTE signals instead. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. This is a feature that would allow you to, for instance, know everything that is in your fridge and when it expires. A new technology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}