Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has a lot of potential to bridge the gap between the virtual world of enterprise IT systems and the real world of products and logistical units. In this paper we analyse the requirements RFID middleware solutions have to meet in order to manage large deployments of RFID readers and the amount of RFID data these readers capture. We also present th...

RFID is a promising technology in the healthcare area in order to improve patient safety and increase efficiency and reduce costs in the daily healthcare work. This paper analyzes the available literature regarding both interference of RFID systems in medical equipment and the interferences of medical equipment on RFID systems. The conclusion of this analysis is that is necessary to develop sta...

Passive UHF RFID tag consists of a microchip attached to an antenna. Proper impedance match between the antenna and the chip is crucial in RFID tag design. It directly influences RFID tag performance characteristics such as the read range. It is known that an RFID microchip is a nonlinear load whose complex impedance varies with the frequency and the input power. We investigate the effect of us...

RFID technology has become popular in many applications; however, most of the RFID products lack security related functionality due to the hardware limitation of the low-cost RFID tags. In 2009, Chien and Laih proposed an RFID authentication protocol based on error correction codes (ECC) to secure RFID systems with untraceability, which is one of the most critical privacy issues on RFID. In thi...

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...

In this thesis, I investigate how radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology can contribute to the optimization of production processes. RFID allows the automatic identification of entire batches of goods on the level of pallets, cases, or even individual items. Moreover, RFID facilitates electronic data collection under circumstances in which alternative technologies – e.g., bar codes – ...

RFID tags are tiny, inexpensive, inductively powered computers that are going to replace bar codes on many products, but which have many other uses as well. For example, they will allow smart washing machines to check for incompatible clothes (e.g., white shirts and red socks) and smart refrigerators to check for milk that is too old to be consumed. Subdermal tags with medical information are a...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system allows automatic identification of items with RFID tags using radio-waves. As the RFID tag has its unique identification number, it is also possible to detect a specific region where the RFID tag lies in. Recently it is widely been used in mobile robot navigation, localization, and mapping both in indoor and outdoor environment. This paper represents...

Every year researchers and engineers are finding new and useful applications for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems (Finkenzeller, 2003). Because of the growing use of RFID systems, many different areas of research have also been developed to improve the performance of such systems. A few of these areas of research include novel antenna designs (Rao et at., 2005; Calabrese & Marrocco...

Purpose – This paper aims to assess the business value realised from radio frequency identification (RFID)enabled healthcare transformation projects as compared with other industries. The paper starts with a review of RFID technology in the healthcare industry and further extends to an in-depth analysis of mini-case studies collected from RFID Journal, a leading professional journal dedicated t...