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From the digital home, according to the CeBIT exhibitors, the average person should move to the digital store. The largest German retailer Metro Group (in Russia operates the Metro Cash & Carry network) at CeBITe presented its concept of a “store of the future”, based on the ubiquitous use of RFID (RadioFrequency IDentification) technology - radio frequency identification. All products in this store have a special label in the form of a small piece of foil, similar to a postage stamp and containing a small chip on which information about the product is recorded. (This may be just a digital code, like on bar codes, and more detailed information about the expiration date, storage conditions, etc.) Such a label is capable of “responding” to the reader signals. When arriving at the warehouse, pallets of goods pass by the gate with a scanner, and the system checks on the fly whether the goods that were ordered, arrived at the warehouse, what storage conditions are required for them, what is the shelf life, etc.

The violent protest rallies of human rights defenders and the emotional discussions that are going on around technologies based on radio-identification chips (RFID) can, apparently, have a tangible effect on the specific nuances in the work and deactivation of the microcircuits. But at the same time, RFID tags offer such obvious and substantial economic benefits that their speedy introduction into various spheres of life is almost inevitable. That was once again emphasized at a recent press conference hosted by the EU administration for announcing the start of a comprehensive pan-European project to study all aspects of the massive use of RFID. Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for the Information Society and Media, who told about this initiative, said that it is planned to release 600 million radio-identification chips this year, and this figure will increase 450 times over the next ten years.

The flow of news about a variety of applications, in which RFID is already being successfully applied, is growing every month. Reading, in her report, in particular, mentioned the European Airbus Aircraft Concern, where RFID now marks all the elements of aircraft under construction — brakes, seats, seat belts, etc. — that are subject to regular replacement so that they themselves can announce the update when they are scanned. . By the flowery expression of Reading, the large-scale use of radiolabel chips unites the Internet world of cyberspace and the real world surrounding a person into one whole.

Access control systems (ACS) today are an integral part of the security systems of almost any object - from a small office to a large enterprise or military facility. In today's troubled world, this is not just a tribute to fashion, but a real opportunity to reduce the level of threat of intrusion by outsiders on an object. After all, the consequences of such an infiltration can sometimes be catastrophic, not only for a specific object, but also for the whole world, if we are talking about, for example, a military base or a nuclear power plant ...
Yes, the words in the title are not a reservation - the security of any strategic object is not only its object, security, but also ours. If sabotage occurs at a large chemical enterprise several kilometers away from your home, the consequences can be very sad ... That is why the issue of protecting such an important component of security systems as access control systems for such facilities is not a private affair of the enterprise director or military commander parts. This is a nationwide task, no matter how pathetic it sounds. Although we will talk about a very small component of the access control system - about proximity identifiers.