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RFID Technology: An UpdateElham Mousavidin

(ISRC)

November 18, 2004

Information Systems Research CenterFuture Store(Source: Wired Magazine)

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RFID Spending

• $1 billion in 2004

• Mostly in warehouses and distribution centers

[Wall Street research firm Robert W. Baird & Co, Estimate]

(Source: ZDNet Australia )

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RFID System Components

(Source: Manhattan Associates)

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Classification of Tags

• Passive

• Semi-Passive

• Active(Source: d’Hont 2002)

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RFID Applications

(Source: speedpass.com)(Source: gettyimages.com)

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RFID ApplicationsSupply Chain and Inventory Management

• U.S. Department of Defense

(Source: RFID Journal)

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RFID ApplicationsInventory Management

• Libraries benefit from RFID tagging

(Source: gettyImages.com)

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RFID ApplicationsIdentification, Security, Automated payments

• More than 1000 patients in Mexico• Anticrime computer center in Mexico City • Baja Beach Club in Barcelona

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RFID ApplicationsSecurity

• FDA and Major Drug Makers

–Combat counterfeiting and fraud

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Club Car

Golf Car Manufacturer

• Production Line

– Reduced Production Time

– Increased Accuracy

RFID ApplicationsProduction

(Source: RFID Journal)

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• Canus (skin care products) – Supply Chain

– Temperature Measurement

RFID ApplicationsProduction

(Source: gettyimages.com)

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RFID ApplicationsConstruction

• Concrete Maturity Test

(Source: IRD)

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RFID ApplicationsOther

• Indy Racing League– Drivers

– Race Crew

– Race Car Manufacturers

(Source: RFID Journal)

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RFID ApplicationsOther

• Goodyear and Siemens

– Checking Tire Pressure

(Source: gettyimages.com)

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• Identify Vehicles in the UK

– Security– Access control– Electronic payment– Tracking/processing– Traffic management

e-Plate

RFID ApplicationsOther

(Source: gettyimages.com)

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RFID ApplicationsOther

• Wannado City Theme Park• Dolly’s splash town

(Source: RFID Journal)

(Source: RFID Journal)

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Obstacles to RFID adoption

• Cost• Standardization• Privacy

(Source: www.spychips.com)

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Standardization

Institutions:• International Organization for Standardization

(ISO)

• EPCglobal and Auto-ID lab– EPCglobal Network

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StandardizationEPCglobal Network

• Electronic Product Code (EPC)• Object Name Space (ONS)• Physical Markup language (PML)• Savant Systems

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Privacy

“I think the RFID privacy movement is primarily an anti-retail movement, because no one is discussing this at all in manufacturing process control or its use in libraries”

Cheryl Shearer, IBM’s global leader , business development for emerging markets

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Privacy

Grocers will replace price tags with bar codes and confuse shoppers.

Phil Donahue

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Solutions

• Educating consumers• Disabling tags• RFID Jammers

(source: RSA Security)

Information Systems Research CenterStore of the Future?(Source: Wired Magazine)

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Questions?