Innovative Automatic Identification and Location-based Services
From Bar Codes to Chip Implants
Published on 31. March 2009
Book
Hardback
321 pages
978-1-59904-795-9 (ISBN)
Description
Automatic identification has evolved to use techniques that can identify an object or subject without direct human intervention. Such devices include the bar code, magnetic-stripe, integrated circuit, and biometric and radio-frequency identification. Innovative Automatic Identification & Location-Based Services: From Bar Codes to Chip Implants emphasizes the convergence and trajectory of automatic identification and location-based services toward chip implants and real-time positioning capabilities. Recording the history of automatic identification, this book also discusses the social, cultural, and ethical implications of the technological possibilities with respect to national security initiatives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hershey
United States
Publishing group
IGI Global
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
1617 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59904-795-9 (9781599047959)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Automatic identification; Bar code; Biometric identification; Chip implants; Cultural implications of automatic identification; Ethical implications of automatic identification; Integrated circuit; Location-based services; Magnetic-strip; National security initiatives; Radio-frequency; Real-time positioning; Social implications of automatic identification.