This book is addressed to business management and project managers as well as researchers who are evaluating the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) for tracking uniquely identified objects. In an effort to make RFID project management less of an art form and more of a science RFID Technology and Applications brings together pioneering RFID academic research principals to analyze engineering issues that have hampered the deployment of RFID and to share ‘‘best practices’’ learnings from their work. By extending the original work of the Auto-ID Center at MIT and the subsequent Auto-ID Labs consortium led by MIT that now comprises seven world-renowned research universities on four continents, this. | Cambridge RFID and Applications Mtedby Stephen 8. Miles sanjayLSarma an fohBUWWUfltt This page intentionally left blank RFID Technology and Applications Are you an engineer or manager working on the development and implementation of RFID technology If so this book is for you. Covering both passive and active RFID the challenges to RFID implementation are addressed using specific industry research examples as well as common integration issues. Key topics such as performance optimization and evaluation sensors network simulation RFID in the retail supply chain and testing are covered as are applications in product lifecycle management in the automotive and aerospace sectors in anti-counterfeiting and in health care. This book brings together insights from the world s leading research laboratories in the field including MIT which developed the Electronic Product Code EPC scheme that is set to become the global standard for objectidentification. MIT s suite of Open Source code and tools for RFID implementation is currently being developed and will be made available with the book via www. 9780521880930 . This authoritative survey of core engineering issues including trends and key business questions in RFID research and practical implementations is ideal for researchers and practitioners in electrical engineering especially those working on the theory and practice of applying RFID technology in manufacturing and supply chains as well as engineers and managers working on the implementation of RFID. Stephen B. Miles is an RFID evangelist and Research Engineer for the Auto-ID Lab at MIT. He has over 15 years of experience in computer network integration and services. Sanjay E. Sarma is currently an Associate Professor at MIT and is also a co-founder of the Auto-ID Center there. He serves on the board of EPCglobal the wordwide standards body he helped to start up. John R. Williams is Director of the Auto-ID Lab at MIT and is also a Professor of Information .
