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Chennai , Jan. 25

INDIA should take a leadership position in RFID (radio frequency identification) technology. "If we do not do it somebody else would," according to Prof S. Sadagopan, Director, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.

India should play an active role in RFID technology activities globally. While there are Indians in some of the global organisations that set standards on RFID, India is not there, he said speaking at a national conference on RFID technology organised by the CII Institute of Logistics.

RFID is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. An RFID tag is a small object that can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal or person. It contains silicon chips and antennas to enable them to receive and respond to radio-frequency queries from an RFID transceiver. Passive tags require no internal power source, whereas active tags require a power source, according to information available on the Web.

The Indian industry, especially automobile manufacturers, need to take a lead in undertaking a national level experiment on RFID, and demonstrate two or three models using the technology. Further, some of the issues such as policy, spectrum and standard on RFID need to be sorted out. RFID is here to stay. Hype is over, and reality is sinking slowly, he said.

Quoting the research company Gartner, Prof Sadgopan said by 2010 about 33 billion RFID tags would be sold compared with 1.5 billion in 2005.

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