AutoID Lab ADELAIDE RFID Automation

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Auto-ID Lab ADELAIDE(RFID Automation)

• Alfio Grasso
• Deputy Director
• Auto-ID Lab Adelaide
• General Manager
• RFID Automation

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RFID Expertise

• Auto ID Lab (8)
• Director of Laboratory (1)
• Deputy Director (1)
• Post Doctoral Engineer (1)
• PhD Candidates (3)
• Masters Candidate (2)
• Millions of tags sold throughout the world
• Commercialisation experience

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Peter Cole - Director

• Prof Peter Cole
• First RFID patents back to 1968
• Established TABTEK Electronics (1980)
• Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices
• Established Integrated Silicon Design (1984)
• Microwave Back-scatter Technology (MBS)
• Sold to Gemplus in 1999
• Established Transponder Australia (1985)
• Passive sub-harmonic transponder
• RFID Chair established (2001)
• Auto ID Lab, Adelaide established (2002)
• Acknowledged World Leader in RFID
• Patents in RFID (32 - granted)

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Alfio Grasso Deputy Director

• Alfio Grasso
• 26 years experience in RFID (SAW and MBS)
• Project Editor ISO 18000-6
• Engineering Manager (RFID systems)
• 13.56MHz, 27 MHz, 433MHz, UHF, and 2.45 GHz
• RFID Installations in various industries
• Electronic Toll Collection
• Mining
• Sugar
• Rail
• Vehicle access
• Library
• Manufacturing
• Consultant to EPCglobal Australia

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Post Graduates Researchers

• Behnam Jamali (Post Doctoral Engineer)
• Low power analogue CMOS circuits and efficient
  rectifiers.
• Data Logging Readers
• Kin Seong Leong (PhD Candidate)
• Dense Reader Analysis
• Dual Frequency Antennas
• Mun Leng Ng (PhD Candidate)
• Metallic Item Identification
• Raja Ghosal (PhD Candidate)
• Damith Ranasinghe (Masters Candidate)
• Electromagnetic coupling, encryption, and
  authentication
• Manfred Jantscher (Overseas Masters Candidate)

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Adelaide, Auto-ID Lab
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Three entities

• Auto-ID Lab
• EPCglobal research
• via sub-award from MIT
• RFID Automation
• Contract Research
• Australasian Adoption Research Initiative
• RFID adoption, Networking, Resources

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Adelaide, Auto-ID Lab
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Background

• Established in 2002 by the Auto-ID Center, at the
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Now partially funded by EPCglobal Inc, via MIT

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• One of 7 AutoID Labs around the world
• MIT, USA
• Cambridge, UK
• Adelaide, Australia
• Keio, Japan
• Fudan, China
• St Gallen, Switzerland
• ICU, Korea

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Research Projects

• The design of cost effective and small footprint
  tag antennas, suitable for attachment onto metal
  surfaces.
• Interference studies in high density reader
  environments.
• Electromagnetic propagation studies applicable to
  European Regulations
• High security authentication tags
• Dual frequency tags, ones that employ UHF
  techniques for supply chain applications and then
  HF for item management applications.
• Passive RFID chip design (modules for
  implementation)
• Analysis and measurement of new forms of reader
  to tag signalling

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Research Projects Cont

• Analysis of measuring equipment, i.e.
  understanding the test regulations with respect
  to the forms of signalling employed by RFID
  readers
• Analysis and development of reader architectures
• Autonomously networking tags (Class IV)
• Trigger circuits for battery assisted tags.
• An analysis of noise sources in RFID readers
• Universal Class 2 tags
• Filters that may be required to reduce spurious
  emissions (Japan and Australia)
• The use of LF RFID in applications where HF and
  UHF may not provide an adequate RFID solution,
  such as in granular media.
• Merged EAS and RFID tag

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RFID Automation(Contract Research)
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RFID Automation

• RFID Automation
• Web page www.rfidautomation.org
• Established to source Research projects for the
  Auto ID Lab
• To-date
• Three consultancies
• One Research Contract

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Research Services

• IT system development
• Real time decisions from real time data
• Zero Human Involvement Operations (OHIO)
• Development of knowledge based systems that learn
  management expertise
• Specialised Label Design
• Tags placed on or near metal
• Compact label design
• 3D antenna structures

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Contract Research

• Separate from the EPCglobal funded work
• Commercial Infrastructure
• Adelaide Research Innovation Pty Ltd
• Intellectual Property Protection

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Australasian Adoption Research Initiative
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Australasian Adoption Research Initiative

• Established in April 2005
• Mechanism for the Auto-ID Lab, Adelaide to
  conduct research into RFID that is relevant to
  Australian and New Zealand industry.
• Foster adoption of the RFID technology being
  developed by EPCglobal.
• Enables participation by companies across a broad
  range of industries and applications, to network
  and gain access to the wealth of expertise and
  experience in RFID.
• Act as Industry Reference Group for the adoption
  of RFID including consultation and advice to SMEs
  and Governments.

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Benefits of membership

• Opportunity to input into the direction of
  research programs
• Access to hosted visits at the Labs
• Invitations to industry networking meetings
  designed to
• keep you informed of key technical and management
  issues and industry developments
• enable you to meet your peers in an informal
  setting (usually over dinner at a university
  site) to facilitate business relationships
• Access to technology advances through regular
  activity reports issued by the Lab
• Receive notices of specialist RFID related
  seminars
• Receive periodic reports on EPCglobals HAG and
  SAG action groups
• Priority access to personnel at Auto ID Labs
  Adelaide as well as access to extensive test
  equipment on agreed basis
• Ability to access information on RFID vendors and
  solution providers and have the ability to check
  their compliance statements
• Customised meetings arrange presentations
  seminars and laboratory visits for members in
  response to requests for university research
  contacts

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Why RFID expertise is needed

• Installing RFID is a black art
• Lack of skilled RFID technicians
• Existing IT infrastructures need to be upgraded
• Integrating RFID with back end systems will take
  months
• RFID systems may require changes to non RFID
  friendly assets
• Business processes need to be changed

Source RFID Journal
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Further Information

• Alfio Grasso
• Deputy Director
• Auto-ID Lab, Adelaide
• General Manager
• RFID Automation
• University of Adelaide
• Web www.rfidautomation.org
• Email alf_at_rfidautomation.org
• Ph [phone]
• Mob [phone]

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