RFID and Wine

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RFID and Wine

• Alfio Grasso
• Deputy Director
• Auto-ID Lab, ADELAIDE

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Agenda

• Background on Auto-ID Lab
• RFID
• ZORK
• RFID Enabled ZORK
• Wine Industry Survey
• Conclusions

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Adelaide, Auto-ID Lab
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The Auto-ID Laboratories
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Auto-ID Labs

• One of 7 Auto-ID 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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RFID
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Anatomy of an RFID Solution

• Solution Components
• Tag
• Label
• Printer
• Reader
• Antenna
• Communications
• Middleware
• Enterprise Applications
• Systems Integration
• Network Infrastructure
• Network Applications

Slide courtesy of RFID Business Association
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What is RFID?

• Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an
  automatic identification method, relying on
  storing and remotely retrieving data using
  devices called RFID tags or transponders.
• An RFID tag consists of
• An Antenna, and
• An Integrated Circuit

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An RFID Chip (Integrated Circuit)
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An RFID Tag Antenna

• Enables the chip to receive and respond to
  radio-frequency queries from an RFID transceiver.

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RFID Readers
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Host CPU

• Application
• Do something with the tag information
• Potential to generate massive amounts of data
• Once installed it costs virtually NOTHING to read
  a tag!
• Real time data gt real time decisions
• 0HIO (Zero Human Involvement Operations)
• Term defined by John Greaves, CHEP International

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ZORK
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RFID enabled ZORK
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Wine Industry Survey
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Wine Industry Survey

• Final Year 2007 Project
• Survey wine industry on possible benefits of RFID
  enabled ZORK
• 19 Questions
• Benefits
• Authentication
• Inventory
• Supply Chain Visibility
• Theft Reduction
• Security of Supply Chain
• History of individual bottle
• ePedigree
• Product Information
• Tamper evidence
• Rebate systems based on previous sales
  performance
• Cross Promotional Opportunities
• Verification of Organically Grown Produce
• Variable pricing
• Impending use by dates
• Developed an application to demonstrate the
  benefits

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Survey Diversity
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Most Beneficial Advantage
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Conclusions
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Conclusions

• RFID has low to moderate technical risk
• Auto-ID Lab commercial success in RFID
  developments
• RFID enabled ZORK ready for commercial
  development
• Applications developed showing some of the
  benefits of RFID enabled ZORK

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Thank you QuestionsAlf Grassoalf_at_eleceng.adela
ide.edu.au(08) 8303 64730402 037 968