Day 1

• Demonstration of RFID application

• How do objects interact with computers?

  • Interfaces mediated by people

  • Automatic data acquisition

  • Auto-ID

    • Bar codes

    • ID squares

    • Smart cards

    • RFID

  • Ubiquitous computing

  • Power and limitations of RFID

• RFID technology

  • Roots in World War II IFF technology

  • RFID categories

    • Anti-theft devices

    • Read-only tags

    • Read-Write tags

    • Anticollision tags

    • State machines

    • Smart cards

    • Smart cards with cryptography

  • EPCglobal classes

  • Passive, semi-passive, and active tags

  • Proximity versus vicinity tags

  • Radio frequencies

  • Communication between readers and tags

  • Anticollision methods

  • Data structures used in RFID

  • Middleware between RFID and applications

  • How RFID tags are made

  • Remaining technical challenges

• RFID applications in manufacturing

  • Warehouse management at Procter & Gamble

  • Digital Yatai at OMRON

  • Prevention of picking errors in assembly at Dell

• RFID applications in logistics

  • Traceability at Seagate

  • Trucks and containers

  • Truck and car seat tracking at Johnson-Controls

  • Vehicle inventory location

  • Sea- and airports

  • Retail

  • Citizen opposition to RFID use

Day 2

• The RFID market

  • Market drivers

  • Forecasts

  • Market dynamics

  • Lack of skills and experience

  • Moving and competing standards

  • Too many players

  • Deployment timeline

    • Compliance applications

    • Visibility/tracking

    • Execution

• RFID mandates

  • Wal-Mart

  • Tesco

  • Metro AG

  • US Department of Defense

  • Others

  • Slap-and-ship and compliance costs

• RFID technology vendors

  • Air interface

    • Tags

    • Readers

  • Inside the network

    • Middleware

    • Applications

  • Services

    • System integration

    • Consulting

  • Baysquare's approach

• RFID standards

  • Sources of RFID standards

    • ISO/IED

    • EPCgtlobal

    • Other

  • Issues with standards

  • Standards strategies

    • Ignore standards

    • Comply selectively

    • Focus on compliance

    • Drive standards

• RFID project management

  • Projects involving RFID

  • Resource issues with RFID projects

  • Planning RFID projects

  • RFID project phases

  • Cost-benefit analysis of RFID project