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“Please Identify Yourself”

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There are several use cases in which remote interrogation is extremely useful, and electromagnetic waves provide many different ways for doing this, from locating airplanes to identifying runaway pets.

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    Petri Launiainen

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Launiainen, P. (2018). “Please Identify Yourself”. In: A Brief History of Everything Wireless. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78910-1_12

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