Industrial and consumer applications of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) are explored. The state-of-the-art and development in RFID technology is reviewed. A currently operative smart parts based manufacturing system is described which uses RFID as the key technology. The role of RFID in the emerging Wireless Internet Manufacturing field is highlighted.

An RFID-based CRM system with intelligent characteristics for apparel retail has been proposed in this paper. It is composed of five functional modules: RFID-based garment information management module, RFID-based customer information management module, personalized recommendation and service module, sales management module, web-based communication and service module. The core function of this ...

Recently, there have been an increasing interest in RFID system and RFID systems have been applied to various applications. Load balancing is a fundamental technique for providing scalability of systems by moving workload from overloaded nodes to under-loaded nodes. This paper presents an approach to adaptive load balancing for RFID middlewares. Workloads of RFID middlewares can have a consider...

Recent developments in the field of radio frequency technologies have led to numerous challenges in providing comprehensive performance for the next generation wireless networks. Meanwhile RFID as the one of important core technology in toward this future approach, have been implemented extensively for different kind applications. Those applications direct to the obviousness that issues in elec...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are emerging as a practical means of auto-identification in a wide variety of applications in the modern era and as one of the most pervasive computing technologies in history. A typical RFID system is usually composed of four parts: tag, RFID reader, RFID middleware and application system. The host system seeking between the hardware and the enterp...

Joint estimation of RFID-tag position and gain is proposed for RFID-assisted surgery support system. Although various RFID-tag positioning schemes have been proposed, gain variations in RFID-tag could affect the accuracy in the positioning. This paper uses a non-linear optimization method to estimate the gain and position of RFID-tag simultaneously. Computer simulation result shows that the pro...

SmartTag is a radio frequency identifi cation (RFID) based technology designed to allow tracking of ore from its source through blasting, run-of-mine (ROM) pads, crushers, intermediate stockpiles and fi nally into the concentrator. This paper presents current developments and the future direction of the SmartTagTM ore tracking system, as well as presenting some case studies. Successful applicat...

Currently, the coordination between supply chain participants is normally organised via a scan packing system and communicated through electronic data interchange technology. However, the scan pack process is costly and time consuming. Using the electronic product code technology defined by EPCglobal, two national demonstrator projects have been developed to explore the suitability of RFID to t...

As a response to a growing interest in RFID systems such as Internet of Things technology along with satisfying the security of these networks, proposing secure authentication protocols are indispensable part of the system design. Hence, authentication protocols to increase security and privacy in RFID applications have gained much attention in the literature. In this study, security and privac...

Efficiently recording data of agricultural operations has been required for process control, quality control, and labor management in agriculture. The purpose in this paper is to clarify the possibility and the problem on a method to recognize and record agricultural operations automatically based on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) as an automatic identification technology. A prototype sy...