Embodiments relate to customer assistance request systems and methods. A customer assistance request system generally includes at least one customer assistance kiosk including a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, an RFID reader and a communication system. The RFID reader is configured to read the RFID tag number when a customer assistance kiosk is in an open configuration and the RFID tag is exposed. The communication system is configured to receive the read RFID tag number and issue a notification including the location of the at least one customer assistance kiosk.

An RFID tag and a method of its use are disclosed. One such RFID tag includes first, second, and third RFID inlays included on a tag housing, the first, second, and third RFID inlays each corresponding to a different rate identifier. The tag also includes a panel engaged with the housing and movable among first, second and third positions. The panel includes RFID shorting structures each positioned to electrically contact one of the first, second, and third RFID inlays such that, in any of the first, second, and third positions, only one of the first, second, and third RFID inlays remains active.

An RFID switch manually operable for transmitting status data includes a plurality of RFID tags that a user can selectively expose to or shield from activation by an RFID reader. The user's choice of which RFID tags are exposed for reading determines what status information is conveyed to the RFID system. A data base in the RFID system associates the presence or absence of particular RFID tags with corresponding status reports.

Systems and methods for transit industry vehicle rider accessory capacity monitoring whereby an RFID tag, or other determining technology, indicates the presence or absence of a rider accessory in an accessory storage and such presence or absence is communicated and received by a transit industry vehicle to be disseminated to users of such systems and methods.

The invention provides an improved sleeve for a key fob with Radio Frequency (RF) blocking features to block undesired communications with the key fob.

Detecting an attempted theft of information stored in an RFID-enabled card, including: receiving, by a theft detection module, a transaction request, the transaction request including RFID-enabled card information; determining, by the theft detection module, that the RFID-enabled card information is mock card information, wherein mock card information is provided to an RFID reader by an RFID tag exterior to an RFID shield of an RFID-enabled card security enclosure responsive to an RFID request directed at the security enclosure; and responsive to determining that the RFID-enabled card information is mock card information, initiating, by the theft detection module, one or more security actions.

An NFC tag shielding system for a multi-layer product of printed and/or non-printed layered material(s) includes a plurality of layers of printed and/or non-printed materials. The system includes a first on-metal NFC tag applied to a first layer of material of the plurality of layers and a second on-metal NFC tag applied to a second layer of material of the plurality of layers. The first and second on-metal NFC tags are aligned along an axis perpendicular to planes of the first and second layers of material. The system also includes an RF shielding layer disposed between the first and second on-metal NFC tags. The RF shielding layer is positioned along the axis and extends parallel to the first and second layers of material a distance covering at least a projected area of the larger of the first or second on-metal NFC tag. The RF shielding layer provides signal shielding between the NFC tags so that a user wishing to read the first NFC tag on the first layer of material will not unintentionally read the aligned second NFC tag on the second layer of material.

An integrated circuit chip and a method for protecting the integrated circuit chip against physical and/or electrical alterations are disclosed. The chip comprises at least one semiconductor layer including semiconductor components and conductive tracks, at least one layer formed by a first type of conductive tracks extending over all or part of a surface of the chip and at least one second type of conductive track connected to at least one detection circuit configured to detect an alteration of the at least one second type of conductive track. The chip is characterized in that the at least one first type of conductive track is mixed within the at least one second type of conductive track, the material and the layout of at least one second type of conductive track being indiscernible, by an observation device, from the material and the layout of the at least one first type of conductive track.

An RFID label includes: an RFID inlay having an inlay substrate, an RFID antenna formed on a part of the inlay substrate, and an IC chip connected to the RFID antenna; a label substrate laminated on one surface of the RFID inlay via a lamination adhesive layer; and an adherend adhesive layer formed on the other surface of the RFID inlay, in which a shielding layer containing a conductive material is formed on at least a part of a region other than the RFID antenna of the inlay substrate.

An identification device includes an annular body with at least one built-in radiofrequency transponder that can emit an electromagnetic field carrying identification information. The identification device includes a masking device that can selectively authorize or block the propagation of the magnetic field emitted by the radiofrequency transponder.