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Innovative Automatic Identification and Location-Based Services - 9781599047959

Un libro in lingua di Katina Michael Michael M. G. edito da Igi Global, 2009

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Techniques of automatic identification are used in devices such as the bar code, magnetic stripe, integrated circuit, and biometric and radio-frequency identification (RFID). In this book, interdisciplinary, international contributors review the history of automatic identification, and discuss the social, cultural, and ethical implications of the technological possibilities with respect to national security initiatives. Major themes include auto-identification and location-based services (LBS) innovation, the social implications of 'ubersurveillance,' and medical, industrial, and military applications of smart clothes, wearable devices, implantable devices. Of special interest are interviews with a professor who, along with his wife, was voluntarily implanted with a device to investigate how movement, thought, or emotional signals could be transmitted from one person to another via a computer network; an entrepreneur who implanted himself with an RFID microchip underneath the skin of his hand to demonstrate an RFID-operated door latch he developed; and a husband who uses a wearable GPS device to help locate his wife, who suffers from Alzheimer's. The authors are affiliated with the University of Wollongong, Australia. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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