according to the vital role of pharmaceutical industry in health care system, pharmaceutical supply chain security, standard production and distribution of the pharmaceutical products are of great importance for pharmaceutical companies. therefore, applying technology, especially radio frequency identification (rfid), is essential to achieve these goals. moreover, due to the importance of secur...

the future economy would be a network-centric economy. networks yield more meaning to the concept of perfect competition market. the successful presence in the network-centric economy requires identification and application of new technologies. in today’s competitive business environment, everything is continuously changing and the only thing remains intact is change. environment pressures forc...

RFID, Radio Frequency Identification, technology is a contactless automatic identification technology about which a lot of researches and developments are recently progressing. For this RFID technology to be widely spread, the problem of multiple tag identification, which a reader identifies a multiple number of tags in a very short time, has to be solved. So far, several anti-collision algorit...

Congress passed the Real ID Act (‘‘the Act’’) in 2005 and will require all states to implement much more stringent controls on the issuance of driver’s licenses and identification. The states face a number of obstacles in implementing the requirements including a lack of funding, lack of federal support and training, and a rapidly approaching implementation deadline. Under the Real ID Act, the ...

We present a design and preliminary evaluation of novel visual guidance of a remote assistive system for the elderly to find hidden objects in a kitchen. Our system has two essential functions; 1) to update a list and corresponding location information of objects concealed in a shelf with at all times, and 2) to display images and texts about the objects on the corresponding area of the door of...

Pervasive healthcare is an emerging area with its research intensification in recent years. There are a good number of new projects and many technological advances reported in literature, but the current scenario is still far away from an everyday life fulfilled with pervasive healthcare systems. The main goal of this paper is to present the main design issues of a pervasive healthcare assistiv...

The integration of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an emerging technology which utilizes identified advantages of both systems making it more efficient and reliable. The Hybrid network formed by integration of WSN and RFID systems provide excellent infrastructure to process, acquire and distribute data in decentralized dynamic environments. The integra...

We present Spotlight, a novel application that monitors electrical energy consumption at the individual level. Obtaining reports of energy consumption at this fine granularity allows identifying new areas for energy saving and acting upon it in real-time. Spotlight views appliances as rendering a service to a user and the energy consumption associated with the appliance as a cost for the servic...