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Demo Abstract: Measuring Foot Pronation Using RFID Sensor Networks

Running efficiency is an important factor to consider in order to avoid injury. In particular, foot pronation, the angle of the foot as it hits the ground, is a common cause for many types of injuries among runners. Though pronation is common, diagnosing pronation is difficult and imprecise. Currently there...

Tags: Network, Injury, Sensor, Association For Computing Machinery, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-11-06

Wildlife and Environmental Monitoring Using RFID and WSN Technology

Wireless Sensor Networks enable scientists to collect information about the environment with a granularity unseen before, while providing numerous challenges to software designers. Since sensor devices are often powered by small batteries, which take considerable effort to replace, it is of major importance to use energy carefully. The paper presents...

Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, RFID, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-11-06

Laydown Yard Optimization Using RFID: A Cost and Time Perspective

This project reports the use and applications of Radio Frequency Identification RFID technique in a laydown yard zone. Every construction site has a laydown yard with equipments and materials worth millions of dollars. The real-time exact tracking and location of these items saves money by avoiding duplicating the equipment and...

Tags: Optimization, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-10-21

Recognizing Daily Activities With RFID-Based Sensors

This paper explores a dense sensing approach that uses RFID sensor network technology to recognize human activities. In the setting, everyday objects are instrumented with UHF RFID tags called WISPs that are equipped with accelerometers. RFID readers detect when the objects are used by examining this sensor data, and daily...

Tags: Sensor, RFID, Networking, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-10-03

SmartDEGREE From TCS to Combat Certificate Malpractices

Tata Consultancy Services Limited's TCS SmartDEGREE, a Radio Frequency Identification RFID based solution, enables universities to curb the problem of fake degree certificates and forgery of mark sheets. Using SmartDEGREE, a university can award certificates with an embedded RFID tag that is encoded with the holder's name, date of graduation,...

Tags: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-10-01

Coexistence Proof Using Chain of Timestamps for Multiple RFID Tags

How can a RFID Radio Frequency Identification Devices system prove that two or more RFID tags are in the same location? Previous researchers have proposed yoking-proof and grouping-proof techniques to address this problem - and when these turned out to be vulnerable to replay attacks, a new existence-proof technique was...

Tags: Technique, RFID Tag, RFID, Productivity, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-09-12

RFID-Enabled Inventory Control Optimization: A Proof of Concept in a Small-to-Medium Retailer

This study examines the impact of Radio-Frequency Identification RFID technology on the inventory control practices of a small-to-medium retailer using a Proof of Concept PoC approach. The exploratory study was conducted using a single case study of a hardware retailer stocking 5000 product lines provided by 110 active suppliers. To...

Tags: Optimization, Inventory Control, Retail Company, University Of Wollongong, Strategic Planning, RFID, Retail, Strategy, Management, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-09-08

Design & Development Low Cost RFID Antenna

This paper describes how Low Cost HF (13.56 MHz) antennas can be built and tuned so that their characteristics match the requirements of the high performance reader and third party RF modules. This third edition places greater emphasis on antennas for the higher power readers. In general, the distance at...

Tags: Antenna, RFID, Leadership, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Management

White papers 2009-09-07

Cost - Benefit Analysis of an RFID Asset Tracking System

This paper outlines the cost-benefit analysis of using Ultra High Frequency UHF Radio Frequency Identification RFID technology in an asset-tracking application. To facilitate the analysis, RFID will be compared against the incumbent technology, bar-coding. An experiment comparing these two technologies was conducted, and the findings from this experiment are further...

Tags: Benefit, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-09-02

Development of Digital Photo System Using RFID Technology in Plant Construction Management

The paper has studied the applicability of RFID tags and developed systems to provide clear work traceability to streamline administrative task in the construction work of a plant. The test results indicate that RFID tags can be used effectively for these purposes. They have developed a method for effectively proving...

Tags: Digital Photograph, Hitachi Ltd., Photograph, RFID Tag, Digital Cameras, RFID, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-09-02

RFID-Integrated Technologies for Infection Control: Background and Technology Comparison on Key Adoption Considerations

This whitepaper provides background on the issue of HAIs and the extent to which they can be addressed with RFID technologies. It evaluates the various types of RFID technologies available for infection control on the basis of reliability, flexibility, scalability and interoperability. The first part of this whitepaper will provide...

Tags: Infection, Dynamic Computer Corp., RFID, Security, Wireless And Mobility, Biometrics

White papers 2009-09-01

Retailer Boosts Sales 14%, Cuts Inventory Management Costs 35% With RFID Solution

Like virtually all retailers and all businesses, American Apparel wanted to do more with less at its retail locations - specifically, it wanted to boost store sales while reducing the cost of generating those sales. It met that goal with a solution provided by Xterprise, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner,...

Tags: Inventory Management, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, RFID, Sales Force Management, Retail, Sales, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

Case studies 2009-09-01

The RFID Radio Channel Performance in the Vehicular Control

Most terrestrial wireless communication systems operate in environments that present a multitude of RF propagation problems. The Radio Frequency Identification RFID System, a wireless communication system, applied to vehicular control, is a typical point to point communication system, which one, the radio link formed between the reader, working at the...

Tags: Performance, Wireless Communication, Radio, Wireless, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, RFID, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Biometrics, Marketing

White papers 2009-09-01

When Compromised Readers Meet RFID: Extended Version

RFID-based access control solutions for mobile environments, e.g. ticketing systems for sport events, commonly rely on readers that are not continuously connected to the back-end system. The readers must so be able to perform their tasks even in offline mode, what commonly requires the management by the readers of sensitive...

Tags: Paper, Access Control, RFID, Security Administration, Security, Wireless And Mobility, Biometrics

White papers 2009-08-21

IDAutomation RFID Label Software 2009 (Windows)

This is an easy-to-use WYSIWYG RFID software application that encodes smart labels on RFID capable printers and prints barcodes, text and graphics. Supports Linear, GS1-DataBar, Composite and 2D barcodes including PDF417, DataMatrix ECC200, Aztec and QR-Code. Supports advanced VB Scripting capabilities and connectivity to comma delimited text, CSV, Excel, Access,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Barcode, IDAutomation, Printers, RFID, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Hardware, Peripherals, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-08-19

Requirements for Radio Frequency Identification in Healthcare

Radio Frequency Identification RFID is a growing technology among different industries. As a technology, it has been used since the Second World War, but just in the last decade, the Information Technology IT community and healthcare have been taking more action on studying and developing the technology. This paper represents...

Tags: Radio, Health Care, AIMC, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-08-19

Design and Development of a Open Frame RFID System Unite Test Platform

RFID Radio Frequency Identification System Test Platform has attracted considerable attention in recent years because it has a great impact on many kinds of trade applications. However, there is dearth of available open frame test platform for RFID system. This paper proposes a new design and implementation of an open...

Tags: Platform, Academy Publisher, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-08-15

Architectural Considerations for Distributed RFID Tracking and Monitoring

This paper discusses architectural challenges in designing a distributed, scalable system for RFID tracking and monitoring. The paper argues for the need to combine inference and query processing techniques into a single system and consider several architectural choices for building such a system. Key research challenges in designing the system...

Tags: Monitoring, Association For Computing Machinery, RFID, Productivity, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-08-12

Fed's RFIDiocy pwnd at DefCon

Do you even read your own stuff?From your quote:". . . will be releasing a $50 kit at the end of August that will make reading 125-kHz RFID chips ? the kind embedded in [b]employee access cards[/b] ? trivial." emphasis addedAnd yet you go and say that this is a...

Tags: WPA2, passport, RFID, pwnd, RFIDiocy, RFIDiocy pwnd, security, DefCon, Federal Reserve Board

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Fed's RFIDiocy pwnd at DefCon

NSA spooks gather for a colleague's retirement party at a bar. What they don't know is that an RFID scanner is picking them out - and a wireless Bluetooth webcam is taking their picture. Could that really happen? It already did. The Feds...

Tags: Federal Reserve Board, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-08-10