RFID Proximity Reader Module

 
It is ML042 - Proximity Card Access Control Module, an RFID modul that integrates several functions all together in one single instrument. The integration enables a proximity card reader for lock, access control or serial control into a module.

125 kHz embedded proximity card reader module.
Provides the functions of a proximity reader on a single integrated circuit.
With compact size (36.5mm x 18.5mm).
In standard 600 mil DIP-28 package, small enough for putting into your application.
Adapts easily into various enclosures.
Ideal for third party lock or reader manufacturers who integrate the module into their products.
Antennas and proximity cards are also available for your convenience.

RFID Implants

One company plans deeper implants that could vibrate, electroshock the implantee, broadcast a message, or serve as a microphone to transmit conversations. "Some folks might foolishly discount all of these downsides and futuristic nightmares since the tagging is proposed for criminals like rapists and murderers," Ms McIntyre said. "The rest of us could be next."

The chip implant is being presented as an advance over credit cards and smart cards, which, absent biometrics and appropriate safeguard technologies, are subject to theft, resulting in identity fraud.

Identity fraud costs the banking and financial industry some $48 billion a year, and consumers $5 billion, according to 2002 Federal Trade Commission estimates.

In his speech today at the ID World 2003 conference in Paris, France, Scott R. Silverman, CEO of Applied Digital Solutions, called the chip a "loss-proof solution" and said that the chip's "unique under-the-skin format" could be used for a variety of identification applications in the security and financial worlds.

The company will have to compete, though, with organizations using just a fingerprint scan for similar applications.

The ID World Conference, held yesterday and today at the Charles de Gaulle Hilton, focused on current and future applications of radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies, biometrics, smart cards and data collection.