My vote..
Passive means to modify the field, this includes harmonic
content.
Active means use the field to generate new frequencies, as
though a battery were attached.
- Robert -
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:38:05 -0500
[email protected] wrote:
>
> I have heard the term "passive" used 2 ways, as indicated
> below or as a
> device that actually transponds an independent code from
> that which it
> received from the interrogator, powered off the
> interrogator's field. Thus
> in the latter it is a function of with or without a
> battery, with = active,
> without = passive. What is the consensus of the Forum
> for "passive"
> regarding RFID tags?
>
> Don Umbdenstock
> Sensormatic
>
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