Get the search engine results of any physical things by scanning its RF ID tag

NXP Semiconductors, MTI, austriamicrosystems, and RF-iT partner using their products and expertise have demonstrated a product, which enables connecting the physical devices to Internet easily. This device is a USB RFID dongle, which can be fitted on computers or smartphone with USB interface.

While you are walking across a series of physical devices in a shopping mall with your internet connected netbook/smartphone fitted with this USB dongle, you can get search engine results or any such database results when you get close to the physical device you plan to buy or learn more about it.

This RFID USB Dongle is powered by semiconductor chips AS3992 from austriamicrosystems and NXP's new UCODE G2iL+ tag IC. The RF-iT Solution's detego EXPRESS provides software module catalogue for this product. Predefined interfaces to backend ERP or database systems can be downloaded easily, one such link is the internet link module which directly feeds product code information into internet search engines.

This dongle can download the detego EXPRESS software from RF-iT's homepage and feed EPC data to any IT-Backend systems such as SAP, Navision, Sage through a series of interfaces defined data (ID, timestamp, location) seamlessly. It can also feed EPC data to search engines like Google to get valuable information about products and services from world wide web by just presenting a tagged item to MTI's RFID USB Dongle reader.

NXP says, Novel EPCglobal C1G2 RFID products, including USB Dongle UHF RFID reader and Gen2 Tag with advanced capabilities, are presented allowing large scale integration of ubiquitous computing in a way triggering innovative ideas of high value applications for the everyday life. Easy to install, one-click downloadable software makes the technology utilizable for experts and novices alike in a simple and fast way to access the Internet of Things.

The product demo was displayed at MTI's booth in the event RFID Journal Live! 2010 in Orlando, Florida on April 14-16, 2010.