Abstract: An enrollment assistance device, for facilitating biometric enrollment of a user of a smartcard including a biometric arrangement and a power and communication interface, the enrollment assistance device comprising: a carrier having a first side and a second side opposite the first side; and an electronic label comprising: a card interface portion including an electrically conducting structure; a power supply portion including an electrically conducting structure for receiving electric power from a power source; and electrical circuitry connecting the electrically conducting structure of the power supply portion with the electrically conducting structure of the card interface, wherein the electronic label is folded around an edge of the carrier in such a way that the card interface portion of the electronic label is attached to the first side of the carrier, and the power supply portion of the electronic label is attached to the second side of the carrier.

Abstract: An electronic tracking system that identifies when shipments experience problems such as lost items, separated shipments, or incomplete deliveries. Items in a shipment may be tagged with electronic tracking labels, and gateways included with shipments or installed in transportation vehicles may determine which items are in their vicinity and transmit this data to a central database. The database may include shipment descriptions that identify the items in a shipment and their intended destination. Analysis of the database may indicate that one or more item tracking labels have not recently responded, suggesting that the items may be lost, or that one or more items are located on the wrong transportation vehicle. Shipment status may be updated as new item tracking label data is received. Electronic tracking labels may also have sensors that track whether items have experienced excessive temperatures or shocks during shipping.

Abstract: An electronic tracking tag that attaches a battery to the tag's circuitry by folding over a portion of the flexible PCB on top of the battery to secure it between two conductive pads. This configuration eliminates the need for a battery holder, thereby reducing weight, cost, and thickness and enabling a label containing the electronics to be fed through a printer without damaging the circuit. The battery may be attached to conductive pads using a conductive adhesive such as a conductive tape, avoiding the use of rigid or brittle tabs or epoxies that may break under the stress of going through the printer. An illustrative configuration with the electronic components, the battery, the fold-over battery attachment, and a label front and liner backing may be less than 2100 micrometers thick.

Abstract: A method for pushing a data within a template in an educational setting comprising: scanning, via a first user device, a first tag, said first user device having first a unique ID and said first tag being a master tag and comprising a first tag ID; scanning, via a second user device, a second tag, said second user device having a second unique ID and said second tag having a second tag ID and being controlled by said master tag; defining a template being loaded onto said second user device upon the scanning of the second tag; and wherein the template comprises data corresponding to said second tag ID, said second unique ID, and a time corresponding to the scanning of said second tag.

Abstract: A communication device includes a central processing unit (CPU); a non-transitory memory; and an RFID application stored on the non-transitory memory and comprising executable instructions that when executed by the CPU, cause the communication device to be configured to provide the communication device in an environment; receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from an RFID reader at a plurality of locations in the industrial environment, wherein the RF signal comprises a frequency in the cellular frequency range; determine a receive signal strength (RSS) of the RF signal at each of the plurality of locations; determine the RSS of the RF signal at each of the plurality of locations; and generate a map of an RFID read zone in the industrial environment based on the RSS of the RF signal at the plurality of locations.

Abstract: A method for near field communication with a serial transmission microcontroller and an NFC tag device using the same are provided in the present invention. The method includes: providing a serial interface microcontroller; capturing an NFC carrier signal from an NFC LC resonant circuit; performing a frequency division to the NFC carrier signal to obtain a NFC clock signal; filtering the NFC carrier signal from the NFC LC resonant circuit to obtain an envelope signal; sequentially receiving a digital sequence of the envelope signal according to triggering of the NFC clock signal based on a serial transmission protocol; and decoding an NFC data from the digital sequence based on an NFC transmission protocol rule.

Abstract: The postal voting method (30) includes: a step (31) of connecting a user terminal to a first server, a step (32) of authenticating the user of the user terminal by the first server, and associating a single voting number to the user, a step (33) of storing by a second server, the user's voting number, a step (34) of transmitting, by the second server to the user terminal, a ballot validation code, a step (36) of registering, by the user terminal in an electronic label, information representative of the ballot validation code, a step (38) of transmitting, by the second server to a counting of votes system, a ballot validation element, by the counting of votes system, for each voting ballot associated with an electronic label, a step (39) of reading the information representative of the validation code in said electronic label and a step (40) of verifying correspondence between the information representative of the validation code read and the validation element received by the counting system and, only if

Abstract: A long-range radio tag uses radio energy harvesting and separates the functions of radiofrequency excitation and radio tag reading such that the reader may be displaced at a substantial distance from the radio tags. The ability of the radio tags to communicate with a distant reader is further enhanced by a query system which allows a highly simplified message to be transmitted by the radio tags, as flexibly defined by a received query. The use of addressing and frequency multiplexing system allows a large number of tags to be serviced by a single reader.

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing inventory, including one or more devices, such as computers or other terminal devices and/or computer systems, for managing inventory through the supply chain and lifecycle of a product. The system and method may include features for receiving the same or similar information associated with a plurality of products from a manufacturer, a distributor, and/or a consumer or other user, and associating various information, such as product location, quantity, and/or condition information with the products via one or more RFID devices operating at a plurality of frequencies, at any one or more locations, by any one or more devices, during the product lifecycle.

Abstract: A method for tracking a target within a field of view, includes: receiving, from an input device, a target identifier uniquely identifying the target; receiving, from an infrared camera, a sequence of images resulting from infrared radiation received from the target and comprising a first region of radiation received from the target at a first intensity and an adjacent region of radiation received from the field of view at a second intensity; detecting, in a reference image from the sequence, a mask defined by a border between the first region and the adjacent region; storing an association between the target identifier and the mask; detecting the mask in a further image from the sequence; and annotating the further image with the target identifier according to the stored association.

Abstract: A communication device includes a central processing unit (CPU); a non-transitory memory; and an RFID application stored on the non-transitory memory and comprising executable instructions that when executed by the CPU, cause the communication device to be configured to provide the communication device in an environment; receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from an RFID reader at a plurality of locations in the industrial environment, wherein the RF signal comprises a frequency in the cellular frequency range; determine a receive signal strength (RSS) of the RF signal at each of the plurality of locations; determine the RSS of the RF signal at each of the plurality of locations; and generate a map of an RFID read zone in the industrial environment based on the RSS of the RF signal at the plurality of locations.

Abstract: Systems and methods for radio-frequency identification (RFID) are disclosed where session control tasks are offloaded from an RFID reader to a separate device which can take the form of an RFID transmitter such as a session control broadcaster. Accordingly, the RFID transmitter transmits messages to RFID tags to control which of the tags within range of the RFID transmitter are in a readable state and/or unreadable state. These messages can take the form of session control messages, and these session control messages can be targeted to tags of interest, such as RFID tags that are deemed to be out of place. By offloading the transmission of messages that control the readability of tags to a separate RFID transmitter, the system frees up the RFID reader to spend more time on inventory read operations, which reduces the risk that an RFID tag will stay hidden when it briefly exists in a hot spot.

Abstract: A system for tracing members of an animal population throughout a process including moving at least some of the members between a plurality of physically separate locations, the system comprising: a plurality of identification devices, each being attached to, and uniquely identifying, a respective member of the members; a plurality of identification device readers, each capable of being located at a respective physically separate location of the physically separate locations, and each capable of reading the identification devices to uniquely identify the respective member; a data repository comprising one or more records, each of the records (i) being associated with a respective member of the members, and (ii) including a unique animal identifier associated with the identification device attached to the respective member of the members; and a processing circuitry configured to perform a process for storing location change records indicative of location changes of the members during the process.

Abstract: A dual-factor PIN based authentication system and method uses a cryptogram provided by a contactless card associated with the client in association with a PIN stored by the contactless card to authenticate the client. In some embodiments, cryptogram authentication may be preconditioned upon a PIN match determination by the contactless card. In other embodiments, the cryptogram may be formed at least in part using the personal identification number (PIN) stored on the contactless card encoded using a dynamic key stored by the contactless card and uniquely associated with the client. Authentication may be achieved by comparing the cryptogram formed using the PIN against an expected cryptogram generated an expected PIN and an expected dynamic key.

Abstract: A method of determining topographical interference with a guided missile is proposed. The method may include obtaining a pre-calculated expected trajectory of a guided missile. The method may also include extracting topographic elevations with respect to a topography corresponding to the pre-calculated expected trajectory from stored topographical information. The method may further include determining presence or absence of topographical interference with the guided missile based on bottom trajectory elevation values in the pre-calculated expected trajectory and topographic elevation values corresponding to the bottom trajectory elevation values.

Abstract: The technology described herein can generate a unique identifier for a visual media that comprises pre-printed visual indications on the visual media and a user's handwritten signature. The location of the signature on the visual media can be determined by including preprinted fiducial marks on the visual media. The fiducial markers act as landmarks that allow the size and location of the signature to be determined in absolute terms. The unique identifier is then stored in computer memory on a user-experience server. The user-experience server can associate the unique identifier with a digital asset, such as an image or video, designated by the user. When the unique identifier is provided to the user-experience server a second time, the digital asset can be retrieved and output to the computing device that provided the unique identifier.

Abstract: Solid-state miniature atomic clock (SMAC) within the form factor of an integrated circuit chip (aka microchip) or flexible device. The present invention includes architectures and methods of manufacture of SMACs. SMACs may include one or more vias, with some or all of the vias containing or other material suitable for an antenna. In addition, the SMAC may include a heating device for temperature stabilization.

Abstract: A payment terminal, including: a display, an input device configured to generate input signals indicative of a user input, a payment instrument reader configured to receive payment instrument data from a financial payment instrument, a secure processor connected to the payment instrument reader, a main processor connected to the display, the main processor separate and distinct from the secure processor, a secure input processor connected to the input device and the secure processor, wherein the secure processor is operable between an unsecured mode, wherein the secure processor sends input coordinates based on the input signals received from the secure input processor to the main processor; and a secured mode, wherein the secure input processor ceases input coordinate forwarding to the main processor.

Abstract: An adaptive inventory management system for use in a materials handling facility storing a plurality of items that are each associated with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The management system including a global inventory database subsystem and a RFID interrogator subsystem comprising a plurality of RFID interrogators that are each configured to read the unique identifier of the RFID tag associated with each of the plurality of items that are within a defined boundary of at least one scan zone generated by the respective RFID interrogator and to communicate the unique identifier of the each scanned RFID tag identified within each scan zone of the respective RFID interrogator to the global inventory database subsystem. The management system being selectively configured to effect user desired levels of fidelity and/or resolution with respect to the generated unique identifier of each scanned RFID tag within a defined space of the materials handling facility.

Abstract: In some examples, QR code based test data embedding and transmission may include obtaining, by a test data analyzer that is executed by at least one hardware processor, test data based on operation of a test device to measure a parameter associated with an optical fiber. Based on an analysis of the test data, a report that includes the test data may be generated. A quick response (QR) code generator that is executed by the at least one hardware processor may compress the report that includes the test data to generate a compressed report. The QR code generator may generate, based on an analysis of the compressed report, a QR code that includes the compressed report. A display generator that is executed by the at least one hardware processor may generate a display of the QR code that includes the compressed report.