In a non-limiting example, a label strip including a plurality of electronic labels is provided. Each electronic label includes a power source, an electronic control circuitry, and a sensor which is controllable by the electronic control circuitry. Each electronic label is separable from the label strip and the sensor is inactive prior to separation of an electronic label from the label strip.

According to one embodiment, an IC card includes an antenna, a charge unit, a memory, and a first processor. The charge unit is configured to be charged by a current induced electromagnetically in the antenna. The memory is configured to store processing execution information for discontinuously executing a plurality of processing. The first processor is configured to operate by a current from the charge unit, and discontinuously execute a plurality of processing by providing an interval based on the processing execution information.

In some embodiments, systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein useful to monitoring condition compliance. In some embodiments, an RFID tag comprises a first chip and a second chip, an antenna, a switch, wherein the switch is configured to switchably connect the first chip and the second chip to the antenna based on occurrence of a condition, a memory device, and a control circuit configured to write, in response to a connection between the first chip and the antenna, a first marker and an indication of a first state to the memory device, write, in response to a connection between the second chip and the antenna, a second marker and an indication of a second state to the memory device, determine an amount of time in which compliance was not met, and transmit, to an RFID reader, an indication of the amount of time in which compliance was not met.

A transponder apparatus for a transponder unit has a UHF and HF transponder The UHF transponder has a transponder support, a UHF antenna and a UHF chip. The HF transponder has an HF antenna and an HF chip. The UHF antenna is at the transponder support and is made up of conducting UHF antenna structures in transponder support planes which are spatially separated from one another. The transponder apparatus includes an electrically-insulating attachment layer connecting the UHF transponder to the HF antenna. The transponder apparatus includes an electrically-insulating spacer element connected to the HF transponder and which spatially separates the UHF transponder and the HF transponder relative to a body. The UHF transponder is disposed on the HF antenna. A conducting HF antenna structure of the HF antenna extends beyond a covering surface of the UHF transponder and the HF antenna structure.

A credit card or debit card includes at least one rotatable disk arranged onto a top face or a bottom face of the credit card or debit card; and one or more EMV chips arranged onto the at least one rotatable disk.

A device includes a first inductor and a second inductor. The first inductor has a first inductive coupling profile. A first circuit component is coupled to the first inductor. A second inductor has a second inductive coupling profile. A second circuit component coupled to the second inductor.

A device has a substrate, a plurality of switches located on the substrate, a plurality of NFC chips, each associated with a switch, and an NFC antenna. The switches and the NFC chips associated therewith are interconnected in series and are connected to the NFC antenna. The device contains a label which is joined face to face with the substrate, the individual NFC chips are arranged on the label. The switches are arranged on the substrate but not on the label, and mutually opposed contact points contacting the conductor tracks with each other are provided on the substrate and on the label to electrically connect the switches, the NFC chips and the NFC antenna.

Proposed is a dual band RFID tag including a first rectifier configured to receive and rectify a first RF signal modulated at a first frequency, a first regulator configured to regulate an output voltage of the first rectifier, a second rectifier configured to receive and rectify a second RF signal modulated at a second frequency, a second regulator configured to regulate an output voltage of the second rectifier, a voltage distributor connected to a first node and a ground in a state of being positioned therebetween, the output terminal of the first rectifier and the output terminal of the second rectifier being both connected to the first node, a multiplexer configured to output any one of an analog detection signal output from a sensor and an output signal of the voltage distributor, in response to a first selection signal or a second selection signal, and an analog-to-digital converter configured to receive as an operating voltage a voltage of a second node to which an output terminal of the first regulator and an output terminal of the second regulator are both connected and to convert an output voltage of the multiplexer into a digital signal.

An RFID tag includes a circuit board, an RFID IC and a functional module. The circuit board has an antenna conductor. The RFID IC is mounted on the circuit board. The functional module is connected to the circuit board through a lead wire. An electrical length of a connection wiring that electrically connects the functional module to an element on the circuit board is within 10% of an integral multiple of a half wavelength of a radio signal that the RFID IC transmits or receives.

An example disclosed method for authenticating a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes receiving a first signal including a first transponder identifier associated with the RFID tag; receiving a second signal including a second transponder identifier, wherein the second transponder identifier is associated with a different transponder than the first transponder identifier; and determining, with circuitry, whether the second transponder identifier is associated with the RFID tag.