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RFID Handbook: Fundamentals and Applications in Contactless Smart Cards and Identification,
Second Edition
Klaus Finkenzeller
Copyright  2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
ISBN: 0-470-84402-7

RFID
Handbook
Second Edition

RFID
Handbook
Fundamentals and Applications in Contactless Smart
Cards and Identification

Second Edition

Klaus Finkenzeller
Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, Munich,Germany
Translated by

Rachel Waddington
Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting

First published under the title RFID-Handbuch, 2 Auflage by Carl Hanser Verlag
 Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich/FRG, 1999 All rights reserved
Authorized translation from the 2nd edition in the original German language
published by Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich/FRG
Copyright  2003

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Finkenzeller, Klaus.[RFID Handbuch. English]
RFID handbook : fundamentals and applications in contactless smart cards and
identifcation/Klaus Finkenzeller; translated by Rachel Waddington. — 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-470-84402-7 (alk. paper)
1. Inventory control — Automation. 2. Radio frequency identification systems. 3. Smart.
cards. I. Title.
TS160.F5513 2003658.7 87 — dc21
2002192439
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ISBN 0-470-84402-7
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Contents
PREFACE
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

1 Introduction
1.1 Automatic Identification Systems
1.1.1
1.1.2
1.1.3

1.1.4

1.1.5

Barcode systems
Optical character recognition
Biometric procedures
1.1.3.1 Voice identification
1.1.3.2 Fingerprinting procedures (dactyloscopy)
Smart cards...