F

fades, 6

far field, 4–6

far-field tags, 86–87

Faraday cycle analysis, 59, 63

Faraday's Law, 8

Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 239–240, 246

feedback devices, 157–158

field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), 123

filter values

SGTIN, 243

SSCC, 244

filtering by smart readers, 28

firmware

interrogator upgrades, 31

vs. middleware, 205

fixed interrogators, 32

Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA), 95

FM frequencies, 12

FM0 subcarrier encoding, 91, 95–96

FOX IV Technologies, 259

FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays), 123

frequencies

in harmful radiation, 246

interrogator, 29

ITU assignment, 235

in network design, 118–121

radiating, 4

tag, 79, 85–90

frequency bands, 12, 63

frequency-division multiplexing, 41

frequency hopping, 42, 126

FSA (Fluidic Self Assembly), 95

full Faraday cycle analysis, 59