History of Radio‐frequency Identification: from Birth to Advanced Applications
Gianfranco Andía, Yvan Duroc, Smaïl Tedjini · 2018
This chapter give an account of the development of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology from its birth to the present day. The US patent 17744036, first filled in France in 1924, was certainly one of the very first, if not the first, documents that described the concept of RFID technology. G. Marconi was the first to show that these waves could be used for communication and also noted that radio waves were being reflected back to the transmitter by objects in radio beacon experiments that he conducted on March 3, 1899 on Salisbury Plain. During the 1960s, thanks to the advances in electronic technology, it was possible to develop the first commercial tag, i.e. the electronic article surveillance (EAS) tag. The 1970s was probably the infancy age of RFID development. The 1990s was a significant decade for RFID implementation, particularly in tolls and transportation systems in many countries around the world.