ROM tag having improved reading capability

1. A communication device designed to operate on any type of surface, when affixed onto that surface, comprising:

a magnet having a flat face, said magnet being a permanent magnet that generates a magnetic field perpendicular to said flat face; and

a RFID on metal tag having a mounting base fixedly assembled on said flat face of the magnet.

2. A communication device according to claim 1 , wherein said magnet and said RFID on metal tag are fixedly mechanically linked together by a fastening part.

3. A communication device according to claim 1 , wherein said magnet and said RFID on metal tag are embeddable in a cavity of said surface.

4. A communication device according to claim 1 , wherein said RFID on metal tag and said magnet are glued together so as to form an inseparable assembly.

5. A communication device according to claim 1 , wherein said RFID on metal tag operates in the UHF range and that said magnet and said RFID on metal tag have a dimension below a tenth of the operation wavelength of said RFID on metal tag.

6. A communication device according to claim 1 , wherein said communication device has a read range at least fifty times longer than a largest dimension of said communication device.

7. A communication device according to claim 1 , wherein said magnet is a neodymium-iron-boron rare-earth magnet.

8. A communication device according to claim 1 , wherein said magnet has a flat cylindrical shape.

9. A communication device according to claim 1 , wherein said surface is made of insulator material.

10. A communication device according to claim 1 , wherein said surface is made of conductive material.

11. A communication device according to claim 1 , wherein said surface is made of magnetic material.

12. A communication device designed to operate on any type of surface, when affixed onto that surface, comprising:

a magnet having a flat face, said magnet generating a magnetic field perpendicular to said flat face; and

a RFID on metal tag having a mounting base fixedly assembled on said flat face of the magnet,

wherein said magnet and said RFID on metal tag are fixedly mechanically linked together by a fastening part and said fastening part surrounds in part said magnet and said RFID on metal tag.

13. A communication device according to claim 12 , wherein said fastening part when surrounding in part said magnet and said RFID on metal tag is embeddable in a cavity of said surface.

14. A communication device designed to operate on any type of surface, when affixed onto that surface, comprising:

a magnet having a flat face, said magnet generating a magnetic field perpendicular to said flat face; and

a RFID on metal tag having a mounting base fixedly assembled on said flat face of the magnet,

wherein said flat face of said magnet includes a cavity for receiving said RFID on metal tag.

15. A method for improving the read range of a RFID on metal tag comprising:

fixedly assembling said RFID on metal tag having a mounting base onto a magnet having a flat face, said magnet being a permanent magnet that generates a magnetic field perpendicular to said flat face.