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| September 29, 2010 |
| 2010-09 RFID Hands On Workshop |
RFID as a discipline has now started to penetrate industries beyond retail including automotive, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, homeland security, energy, utilities, transportation and logistics, airlines, etc. Implementing RFID within an application requires simultaneously answering the following questions:
i) What is the business case for the investment in RFID?
ii) Which RFID technology (readers, middleware, tags) is most appropriate for a given scenario?
iii) What type of re-engineering of the business processes is required? and,
iv) How would the integration of the RFID infrastructure with the existing infrastructure be performed (software, hardware)?
The answer to these questions can be somewhat complex. On September 29, 2010, faculty and researchers from UCLA-WINMEC RFID Lab who have been working on RFID for several years, will address these and other issues that arise in the process of using RFID for the enterprise. In addition to enhancing their knowledge-base about the real-world use of RFID, participants will get to see live technical demonstrations of recently developed RFID applications. Industrially relevant RFID case studies and their results will also be presented. Attendees get to experience a variety of RFID technologies and see the use of the TracAssetTM software in conction with the existing RFID hardware in UCLA to get first-hand experience with several potential industrial RFID applications. The workshop and demonstrations will be held in UCLA.
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| November 3, 2010 |
| 2010 WINSmartgrid Thought Leadership Forum |
UCLA WINSmartGridTM is a research technology platform developed at UCLA whose objective is to advance novel Wireless / Communications Sense-and-control Smart Grid technologies, perform testing in the labs, transition technologies into the field for scaled testing, and work with partners in industry and government for demonstrations and eventual rollout. Examples of projects undertaken would include:
i)Monitoring of in-building, in-office and in-home infrastructure and its integration into the Smart Grid to achieve Demand Response
ii)Electric Vehicle energy monitoring, charge/discharge, back-fill planning, scheduling, and integration with enterprise-grade wireless sense-and-control technology
iii)Information architecture for Integration of Energy storage
iv)Modeling and integration of renewable energy sources such as Solar Power
v)Minimal delay wireless networks connecting to monitoring infrastructure, and, use of personal mobile device to connect to the wireless infrastructure
vi)Remote field monitoring of electric sparks and other potentially harming conditions, and, and getting this information back to Central station for rapid action
vii)Wireless monitoring condition of remote underground power lines and conductor temperature
viii)Developing architectures and models for remote in-field communications and control
ix)Real-time intelligent response systems for in-field repair, operations and maintenance
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WINMEC Sponsors :
ETRI,
HP,
Intel,
Intelleflex,
ISMB,
Kestrel Wireless,
Lucent Technologies,
Microsoft Corp.,
Mobio Networks,
Motorola Inc.,
QUALCOMM,
Pillsbury Winthrop LLP,
Raytheon,
Satyam,
SIEMENS,
Stradling Yocca Carlson Rauth,
Tata Consultancy Services,
Verizon Wireless
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