Description
Book Synopsis
Using specific industry examples the challenges, trends and key business questions in RFID development and implementation are addressed using insights from world-leading laboratories. For researchers, practitioners and managers in electrical engineering. MIT's Auto-ID Labs Open Source code and tools for RFID implementation are available via www.cambridge.org/9780521880930.
Trade Review
Review of the hardback: 'RFID Technology and Applications is a high-level tour of RFID usage with enough depth to make it a very useful reference.' IEEE Microwave Magazine
Table of Contents
Preface; List of contributors; 1. Introduction to RFID history and markets Stephen Miles; 2. RFID technology and its applications Sanjay Sarma; 3. RFID tag performance optimization - a chip perspective Hao Min; 4. Resolution and integration of HF and UHF Marlin H. Mickle, Leonid Mats, and Peter J. Hawrylak; 5. Integrating sensors and actuators into RFID tags J.T. Cain and Kang Lee; 6. Performance evaluation of WiFi RFID localization technologies Mohammad Heidari and Kaveh Pahlavan; 7. Modeling supply chain network traffic John R. Williams, Abel Sanchez, Paul Hofmann, Tao Lin, Michael Lipton, and Krish Mantripragada; 8. Deployment considerations for active RFID systems Gisele Bennett and Ralph Herkert; 9. RFID in the retail supply chain - issues and opportunities Bill C. Hardgrave and Robert Miller; 10. Reducing barriers to ID system adoption in the aerospace industry - the aerospace ID technologies programme; Duncan McFarlane, Alan Thorne, Mark Harrison and Victor Prodonoff Jr.; 11. The cold chain J. P. Emond; 12. The application of RFID as anticounterfeiting technique - issues & opportunities Thorsten Staake, Florian Michahelles, and Elgar Fleisch; 13. Closing product information loops with product embedded information devices: RFID technology and applications, models and metrics Dimitris Kiritsis, Hong-Bae Jun, and Paul Xirouchakis; 14. Moving from RFID to autonomous cooperating logistic processes Bernd Scholz-Reiter, Dieter Uckelmann, Christian Gorldt, Uwe Hinrichs, and Jan Topi Tervo; 15. Conclusions Stephen Miles, Sanjay Sarma and John Williams; Appendix: Links to RFID technology and applications resources I. RFID interface specifications; II. Test capabilities (in the order of chapters as presented); III. Simulation environments.
