In this paper, an overview of antenna design for passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tags is presented. We discuss various requirements of such designs, outline a generic design process including range measurement techniques and... more
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While there is a growing body of evidence that Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging can be effective in improving inventory management in the retail store, retailers have little guidance on best practices for implementation. One... more
Professor Bernstein has written a number of security-aware programs, including qmail, djbdns, ucspi-tcp, daemontools and publicfile. His current research interests include computer and network security, high speed cryptography, kernel... more
— In the present days many immoral activities are taking place in ration shop, which are meant to distribute the commodities to the people who are in below the poverty line, as the distribution process is manually operated and due to... more
Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the seafood industry perceives benefits of traceability implementation. Furthermore, ex ante cost-benefit analyses (CBAs) of adopting new traceability systems are conducted for two... more
This paper presents an innovative mobile robot navigation technique using Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology. Navigation based on processing some analog features of an RFID signal is a promising alternative to different... more
This paper presents an overview of modern cryptography. As the title of this paper suggests this paper is a primer, and provides background information that can assist other researchers in further study, and in developing security... more
Solid waste management is a big challenge in urban areas for most of the countries throughout the world. An efficient waste management is a pre requisition for maintain a safe and green environment as there are increasing all kinds of... more
The number of radio frequency identification (RFID) applications in different industries increases continuously. Cumulative sales of RFID tags up to the beginning of 2006 reached 2.4 billion. In 2005 alone, 600 million tags were sold,... more
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an emerging technology which brings enormous productivity benefits in applications where objects have to be identified automatically. This paper presents issues concerning security and privacy of... more
Weakness of information presented on the food packaging of specific food product usually lead to confusion and redundant unsold goods stacked-up in the shopping market. Barcode, labels and ingredients information by far is not adequate to... more
The Ambient Kitchen is a high fidelity prototype for exploring the design of pervasive computing algorithms and applications for everyday environments. The environment integrates data projectors, cameras, RFID tags and readers, object... more
This paper considers the situation of a retail store subject to inventory inaccuracies stemming from execution problems. We assume that inventory inaccuracies are introduced by misplacement type errors that occur within the store, i.e.... more
This paper describes a CMOS implementation of a linear voltage regulator (LVR) used to power up implanted physiological signal systems, as it is the case of a wireless blood pressure biosensor. The topology is based on a classical... more
a b s t r a c t ISO/IEC 18000-3 mode 1 standard 13.56 MHz RFID tags have been accepted by the International Society for Blood Transfusion (ISBT) and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as data carriers to integrate with... more
As a patient and recipient of a blood transfusion, it is important for him or her to receive the safest blood possible. Information about the donated blood should be under the track to guarantee the quality of the blood source. In this... more
Monitoring laboratory equipment record is important to ensure every item is always in place. Generally, in and out equipment is handled manually by technician by writing down the equipment information, including time and date in equipment... more
In the last decade, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has become popular in so many fields from military to industry applications. RFID tags have been embedded into many various products especially in logistics sector. A tag stores... more
Automatic tracking and identification of individuals has the potential to revolutionize the study of insects, especially social insects, by opening up options for questions which could not be asked before. To achieve this we developed a... more
In this paper, we focus on the models for analyzing radio frequency identification (RFID) implementations in terms of their costs and benefits. We consider the supply chain comprised of the manufacturer, distributor, retailer, and the... more
The possibility of pad printing in RFID tag antenna manufacturing is investigated. Passive UHF RFID tags were printed on flat and on convex surfaces with two different polymer thick-film silver inks. The effect of the ink and substrate... more
We present the WISP Passive Data Logger (PDL), an RFID sensor data logging platform that relies on a new, wirelessly-charged power model. A PDL has no battery yet (unlike a passive sensor tag) is able to collect data while away from an... more
Losses of foraging bees are sometimes attributed to altered flight pattern between a meliferous plant treated with an insecticide and the hive. Only a limited number of studies has investigated the impact of pesticides on homing flight... more
... This configuration eliminates the extra processing step and cost of printing a dielectric layer over the ... widespread adoption against the backdrop of a hitherto constrained global demand for RFID labels, and ... ogy is based on... more
SAW tags were invented more than 30 years ago, but only today are the conditions united for mass application of this technology. The devices in the 2.4-GHz ISM band can be routinely produced with optical lithography, high-resolution radar... more
While predictions abound that electronic books will supplant traditional paper-based books, many people bemoan the coming loss of the book as cultural artifact. In this project we deliberately keep the affordances of paper books while... more
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an emerging technology, being used in monitoring including healthcare. We apply different types of RFID tags to monitor drug taking and its impact in an assistive environment. Compared to other... more
Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the seafood industry perceives benefits of traceability implementation. Furthermore, ex ante cost-benefit analyses (CBAs) of adopting new traceability systems are conducted for two... more
This paper describes the design of an RFID Kids Tracking System. It is designed to track a moving child in a wide area, such as a park or mall, using RFID technology. The proposed system has hardware and software components. The hardware... more
Hızla değişen rekabet ortamında, firmaların zaman ve kaynaklardan daha fazla yararlanabilmeleri için ürünlerini, hizmetlerini, iletişim tekniklerini, iş yapma yöntemlerini sürekli olarak değiştirmeleri, farklılaştırmaları ve yenilemeleri... more
This paper describes the design and the use of computer supported ubiquitous learning environments. First, this paper mentions context-aware languagelearning support systems for learning vocabularies, mimicry and onomatopoeia, polite... more
BlindShopping: Enabling Accessible Shopping for Visually Impaired People through Mobile Technologies
BlindShopping is a mobile low-cost easily-deployable system devised to allow visually impaired people to do shopping autonomously within a supermarket. Its main contributions are: a) a user navigation component combining an RFID reader on... more
Although there has been increase in bicycle transport in Europe recently, there are some shortcomings in bike road design and usage. In our paper we would like to suggest a new bicycle road design principle using RFID tags, based on the... more
Automatic identification and collection (AIDC) technologies have made the life of a man much easier on numerous platforms. Of the various such technologies the radio frequency identification devices (RFID) have become pervasive... more
RFID tag is detected by an RFID antenna and information is read from the tag detected, by an RFID reader. RFID tag detection by an RFID reader is very important at the deployment stage. Tag detection is influenced by factors such as tag... more
BlindShopping: Enabling accessible shopping for visually impaired people through mobile technologies
BlindShopping is a mobile low-cost easily-deployable system devised to allow visually impaired people to do shopping autonomously within a supermarket. Its main contributions are: a) a user navigation component combining an RFID reader on... more
The feasibility of integrating antennas and required circuits to form wireless interconnects in foundry digital CMOS technologies has been demonstrated. The key challenges including the effects of metal structures associated with... more
This paper discusses two antennas monolithically integrated on-chip to be used respectively for wireless powering and UWB transmission of a tag designed and fabricated in 0.18-m CMOS technology. A multiturn loop-dipole structure with... more
RFID is a technology being adopted in many business fields, especially in the medical field. This work has the objective to present a system for automation of a hospital clinical analysis laboratory. This system initially uses contactless... more
Due to the rapid worldwide growth in the number of vehicles on the road, traffic problems are bound to exist. Hence, the implementation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to obtain traffic information from roads is becoming an... more
We introduce a new cryptographic primitive, called insubvertible encryption, that produces ciphertexts which can be randomized without the need of any key material. Unlike plain universal re-encryption schemes, insubvertible encryption... more
The feasibility of integrating antennas and required circuits to form wireless interconnects in foundry digital CMOS technologies has been demonstrated. The key challenges including the effects of metal structures associated with... more
| In this study, the effect of the conductive ink layer thickness on the performance of printed ultra-high-frequency (UHF) radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag antennas was investigated. A simple quarter wave dipole tag for European... more
The development of a low-cost backscattered semi-active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag that works in 2.4 GHz frequency band is presented in this study. The tag comprises of an annular ring slot antenna, a feed with a matching... more
A passive RFID tag antenna in a recessed cavity in metallic objects such as vehicles, air craft, and metallic containers, and an impedance matching technique for this configuration are proposed. The proposed tag antenna can be considered... more