RFID Technology and Applications

Cambridge University Press, 5/29/2008
EAN 9780521880930, ISBN10: 0521880939

Hardcover, 244 pages, 24.7 x 17.4 x 1.5 cm
Language: English

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 systems, the challenges to RFID implementation are addressed using specific industry research examples and common integration issues. Key topics include RF tag performance optimization, evaluation methodologies for RFID and Real-Time-Location Systems (RTLS) and sensors, EPC network simulation, RFID in the retail supply chain, and applications in product lifecycle management, anti-counterfeiting and cold chain management. The book brings together insights from the world's leading research laboratories in the field, including the Auto-ID Labs at MIT, successor to the Auto-ID Center which developed the Electronic Product Code scheme which is set to become the global standard for product identification.MIT Auto-ID Labs's suite of Open Source code and tools for RFID implementation is available at www.cambridge.org/9780521880930.

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.

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