COMMSENS Lab Education Thrusts:

Visualizing the need for RFID engineers and the potential benefits of RFID to the community, several activities have been successfully undertaken during the past few months:

• A new course dedicated to RFID Applications in Manufacturing Systems is offered in the spring semester (syllabus) -prominent industry speakers and implementers of RFID were invited to share ideas and discuss technical issues surrounding RFID to supplement the course material with practical aspects - field trip to SUN-RFID Testing Center in Texas was organized; readability of tags on pallets and cases on a conveyor environment was demonstrated

• White papers that describe both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of deploying RFID in a given environment have been published and more experiment specific papers are forthcoming

• A tutorial on RFID fundamentals and applications was organized on April 12, 2005 as part of CELDi pre-conference event which was attended by various industry personnel

RFID Capabilities:

• Test bays and a statistical approach for RFID system design and deployment

• New design method based on combining statistical and electromagnetism principles to screen parameters affecting an RFID system performance

• Framework to undertake customized economic analysis and ROI studies

• RFID /RF sensor deployment, instrumentation and integration studies for quality, integrity, performance monitoring and surveillance

• Simulation based evaluation of decision enrichment using RFID/RF sensor information

• A new simulation approach based on continuous flow dynamics for fast evaluation of system performance

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