ELECTRONIC IMPLANTS:                            TECHNOLOGY BEHIND ELECTRONIC IMPLANT

Whether in a human or animal, a microchip implant works in the same way. The chip is about the size of a grain of rice, and it is typically equipped with RFID technology. Using a reader which is held over the site of the implant, someone can gather the information on the chip. Some can be written to by a reader/writer, while others must be programmed before insertion. Due to concerns about RFID security, some are encoded so that the information on the chip is secure.

In terms of the technique used in inserting this device to the body are totally different depending on the nature of the implant and type of electronic implant. For example the one inserted in the animals or in humans to track or monitor is designed to be inserted with a large-bore needle which injects the microchip into the site, with this practice being standard for veterinary implants. Others are large enough that a surgical procedure must be used to implant the chip.

In terms of technology, it’s helpful to distinguish body implants, first, from transplants and second, from synthetic organs. Transplants are also a form of ‘implantation’ but they involve purely biological body parts, in fact, duplicates of the body part being replaced, except they come from another individual. Synthetic organs, such as an artificial heart, are obviously body implants; the main distinction is that they are entire organs, typically very complex entities, whereas most body implants are either much simpler pieces of the body, such as a hip replacement, or electronic devices not intended to replace any existing body part.

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Mohammed Bin Saeed
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