ABSTRACT
This chapter presents innovative ideas for the new applications, with more emphasis on automotive applications. It briefly reviews several radio frequency identification device (RFID) services and the existing automotive services. The chapter introduces innovative ideas for the next-generation RFID automotive services, and discusses architecture for the new services. The automotive industry is one of the best development targets for an RFID application. There have been huge developments in automotive electronics toward user-oriented services. RFID technology could generate many new user-oriented automotive applications. RFID can provide a better solution to implement the road information system. In order to implement RFID systems with the existing automotive systems, the knowledge about the current car networking and telematics systems is needed. The TalusRFID reader can be seen as a prototype for the RFID reader that will be used for the next generation automotive RFID system.
