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• An Exposure System for Evaluating Possible Effects of RFID on Various Formulations of Drug Products

  by  Howard Bassen, Seth Seidman, Jonathan Rogul, Abiy B. Desta, and Steven Wolfgang
  Publish Date:  10 Jun 2008   Revised Date: 17 Jun 2008
  Category:  RFID
  Keywords:  RFID ,   UHF ,   Helmholtz  
  

  We developed hardware and software to perform exposure studies of the effects of certain RF electromagnetic fields on solid and liquid pharmaceuticals and biologics. The fields generated by our systems are similar to those emitted by RFID readers operating in the U.S. licensed HF and UHF bands (13.56 and 915 MHz, respectively). Our systems can expose drug samples (pharmac.....

• An Overview and Introduction to the RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas

  by  Justin Patton and Bill Hardgrave, RFID Research Center
  Publish Date:  10 Jun 2008   Revised Date: 17 Jun 2008
  Category:  RFID
  Keywords:  RFID ,   Training ,   WIP  
  

  The Center's base of operations is the RFID Laboratory located inside Hanna's Candle Company in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Hanna's site contains both a manufacturing and warehousing facility; the Laboratory is located within the warehouse wing. The Laboratory serves as a teaching and research facility for the academic community, provides testing and training services to.....

• An Overview of Passive RFID

  by  Vipul Chawla and Dong Sam Ha, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Publish Date:  10 Jun 2008   Revised Date: 14 Jun 2008
  Category:  RFID
  Keywords:  ANA ,   RFID  
  

  A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system consists of readers (also called interrogators) and tags (or transponders). A typical system has a few readers, either stationary or mobile, and many tags, which are attached to objects, such as pallets, cartons, bottles, etc. A reader communicates with the tags in its wireless range and collects information about the objects.....

• Bridging the Gap

  by  Bridget McRea
  Publish Date:  10 Jun 2008   Revised Date: 17 Jun 2008
  Category:  RFID
  Keywords:  RFID ,   EPC ,   Wi-Fi  
  

  In one corner, a team of students and professors are huddled, working with a manufacturer of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to develop a more effective product. Across the room, a grad student pores over her laptop, learning how to most effectively replicate the physical characteristics of a specific company’s shipping and receiving environment. Smack in the m.....

• Establishment of the University of Pittsburgh RFID Center of Excellence

  by  Marlin H. Mickle, University of Pittsburgh
  Publish Date:  10 Jun 2008   Revised Date: 17 Jun 2008
  Category:  RFID
  Keywords:  RFID  
  

  The origin of the technology base that established the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) can be traced to a project to find lost hearing aids. The concept was to place some small device in the molded portion of the hearing aid requiring no battery and no connection to the battery or electronics of the hearing.....

• Leveraging RFID in Hospitals: Patient Life Cycle and Mobility Perspectives

  by  Andrea Cangialosi and Joseph E. Monaly, Jr., California Institute of Technology Samuel C. Yang, California State University
  Publish Date:  10 Jun 2008   Revised Date: 17 Jun 2008
  Category:  RFID
  Keywords:  Fixed ,   Mobile ,   Readers ,   RFID  
  

  The application of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to patient care in hospitals and healthcare facilities is just beginning to be accepted. The technology offers great potential benefits and is the next big step in identifying and tracking patients, objects, and assets, and speeds up or eliminates many manual operations in checking and processing patients. It can, f.....

• The Unwinding of a Protocol

  by  Swapna Dontharaju, Shenchih Tung, Alex K. Jones, Leo Mats, Justin Panuski, James T. Cain, and Marlin H. Mickle
  Publish Date:  10 Jun 2008   Revised Date: 13 Jun 2008
  Category:  RFID
  Keywords:  RFID  
  

  The concepts supporting Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) have been around for about 70 years. However, today the commercial implementation of RFID is a very popular subject in many areas of business and technology. There are two types of tags, active with an on board power source, and passive with no on board power source. The current popularity results from the abil.....

• Read Range Performance Comparison of Compact Reader Antennas for a Handheld UHF RFID Reader

  by  Leena Ukkonen, Lauri Sydänheimo, and Markku Kivikoski, Tampere University of Technology
  Publish Date:  10 Jun 2008   Revised Date: 17 Jun 2008
  Category:  RFID
  Keywords:  RFID  
  

  The deployment of passive ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) systems is increasing rapidly nowadays. In that process, handheld RFID reader units become increasingly important in various applications, such as in supply chain, warehouse and retail store management. Important requirements for the handheld reader unit are ergonomic size and weigh.....

• RFID Infrastructure

  by  Pattabhiraman Krishna and David Husak
  Publish Date:  10 Jun 2008   Revised Date: 17 Jun 2008
  Category:  RFID
  Keywords:  RFID  
  

  Geared to general interest readers and entry-level practitioners, this paper takes an in-depth look at the elements of an RFID infrastructure, including its tags and readers and protocol layers, and the roles they play. History has taught us that a technology cannot and will not be deployed pervasively and globally without a robust set of standard protocols specified betw.....