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identification, data storage, and access control systems for items which are subjected to varying positions and/or conditions comprised of transponders and portable data storage units in the nature of memory chips and radio frequency identification tags; data carrying cables, and non-contact devices for reading and writing data relating to such items in the nature of base station read/write devices which communicate with trasponders and/or portable data storage units by radio frequency; components for identification, data storage, and access control systems for items which are subjected to varying positions and/or conditions, namely, transponders and portable data storage units in the nature of memory chips radio frequency identification tags; data carrying cables, and non-contact devices for reading and writing data relating to such items in the nature of base station read/write devices which communicate with transponders and/or portable data storage units by radio frequency