A Billion Little Pieces: RFID and Infrastructures of Identification

by Jordan Frith

Book Overview

How RFID, a ubiquitous but often invisible mobile technology, identifies tens of billions of objects as they move through the world.

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is ubiquitous but often invisible, a mobile technology used by more people more often than any flashy smartphone app. RFID systems use radio waves to communicate identifying information, transmitting data from a tag that carries data to a reader that accesses the data. RFID...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262039753
• ISBN13: 9780262039758
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.1"