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The problem of accounting books in libraries and repositories, and protecting them from theft is very relevant. Some specimens can be of very high value, and therefore are of increased interest not only among ordinary readers.
Using RFID technology can solve these problems. To do this, you must provide each edition with a label with a unique number. Labels can be made in any form and be attached in such a way that physical removal will be impossible. In this case, the appearance of the book will not suffer.
A label can contain a large amount of various information, for example, storage conditions, circulation and many other useful information. Installing radio frequency tags will allow you to keep records in the repositories, where there is a large number of books. This process, in contrast to working with bar codes, is not so laborious, since an RF scanner connected to a PC simultaneously reads several dozen marks at a distance of about one meter. Thus, the problem of thefts from libraries is solved. A radio frequency reader is installed near the exit from the reading room, and if you carry a book with a tag past it, information about the attempt to carry it out will go to a guard post or a librarian.

Asklepios Barmbek Hospital in Hamburg (Germany) unwittingly recalls fantastic films: patients with RFID wristbands allowing them to control their whereabouts, doctors using tablet PCs to record symptoms, nurses who record patient health indicators using PDAs. The staff of the emergency department monitor the flow of patients and the availability of the wards in real time, and X-rays are digitally transferred to the electronic patient record.
All of these are tomorrow's healthcare technologies that exist today at the Asklepios Barmbek hospital. The new hospital was included in the network of 95 medical institutions of the private organization Asklepios Hospital Group operating in the USA and Germany.
The Intel Solution Services group (a division of Intel) acted as a consultant for the implementation of IT solutions. Together with Asklepios and the Digital Health Group, Intel Solution Services is currently implementing about 18 pilot projects and coordinating IT service providers to translate the concept of an electronic hospital for the Asklepios network into practice.

This article once again addresses the issue of radio frequency identification technology, and addresses one of the most common standards in USA today.

The RFID theme, as we have said, is limitless. Today we will focus on a detailed review of another standard that is widely used in everyday life - the Philips Semiconductor Mifare® standard. Millions of people are already using this standard in NY...
Technical aspects
Mifare® is an RFID object identification system with a reading and writing distance of up to 10 cm and conforming to ISO / IEC 14443, type A. It has an anticollision algorithm and allows simultaneous work with several cards in the reader field. Mifare® microchips are convenient for use in cards and various forms of transponders, which can be made in the form of key chains, coins, bracelets, etc. Consideration of the Mifare® architecture will start with the most common modification - Mifare® Standard. Map data structure The table shows the internal data structure of the map (sectors 2 through 13 are not shown - they are identical to the others).