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| June 5, 2008 |
| 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?
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 Jun 5, 2008, 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 the enhancing their knowledge-base about the real-world use of RFID, participants will get to see live technical demonstrations of some 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 WinRFID middleware in conjunction with the existing RFID hardware in UCLA to get a first hand experience with several potential industrial RFID applications. The workshop and demonstrations will be held in UCLA.
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| October 15, 2008 |
| RFID Business Forum |
The mobile personal device aka cell phone is rapidly becoming the single most important source of consumption of entertainment/news/ad content. It is also starting to rapidly become the device of choice for content generation whether it be via video recordings, photographs or audio recordings. And finally, it continues to be the main device of choice for communication between users whether it be via voice, SMS, IM, or MMS/video, thereby creating communities of like-minded users who readily create, distribute and consume content. At one level Convergence implies the ability to have multiple functions (camera, video recorder, phone, TV, music player) within the same device and using the same Today RFID applications are appearing in almost every industry. By tracking of assets, equipment, supplies and personnel, enterprises are now beginning to experiment with new business models to integrate RFID within their enterprise. We believe this is rapidly giving rise to the next generation of the Enterprise - Enterprise 2.0 - one that leverages a new "Internet of Artifacts". The applications of this new Internet of Artifacts are manifold, and the industries adopting it are wide and diverse. For example, retailers are starting to use RFID to automate shelf replacement to prevent dissatisfied customers. Hospitals are using RFID to track critical devices that save patients' lives. Pharmaceutical firms are using RFID to help prevent counterfeit. Grocers are using RFID to prevent food from going bad. The forum will bring industry practitioners to discuss industry-specific modality of use of RFID and the application of RFID in their industry.
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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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