OpenTag

OpenTag is an RFID development platform for advancing ubiquitous electronic tagging of items and people. With OpenTag, we break through the barrier of application-specific and proprietary RFID product engineering by developing our own tag and associated firmware. An OpenTag can adapt to varying demands as a tagged item moves through its life-cyle from manufacturing to supply-chain to retail to consumer to disposal. OpenTags are security conscious and privacy friendly.

People
Principle Researcher: Henry Holtzman

Students: Albert Chiou, Isha Kaur, and Danny Shen

Background
RFID is in some ways a very mature technology; it can trace its roots to IFF systems invented during World War 2 and has been used for building access control and livestock tracking for decades. Yet, in other ways, it is still in its infancy.