RFID Technology and Applications Book

Preface; List of contributors;
1. Introduction to RFID history and markets Stephen Miles;
2. RFID technology and its applications Sanjay Sarma;
3. RFID tag performance optimization - a chip perspective Hao Min;
4. Resolution and integration of HF and UHF Marlin H. Mickle, Leonid Mats, and Peter J. Hawrylak;
5. Integrating sensors and actuators into RFID tags J.T. Cain and Kang Lee;
6. Performance evaluation of WiFi RFID localization technologies Mohammad Heidari and Kaveh Pahlavan;
7. Modeling supply chain network traffic John R. Williams, Abel Sanchez, Paul Hofmann, Tao Lin, Michael Lipton, and Krish Mantripragada;
8. Deployment considerations for active RFID systems Gisele Bennett and Ralph Herkert;
9. RFID in the retail supply chain - issues and opportunities Bill C. Hardgrave and Robert Miller;
10. Reducing barriers to ID system adoption in the aerospace industry - the aerospace ID technologies programme; Duncan McFarlane, Alan Thorne, Mark Harrison and Victor Prodonoff Jr.;
11. The cold chain J. P. Emond;
12. The application of RFID as anticounterfeiting technique - issues & opportunities Thorsten Staake, Florian Michahelles, and Elgar Fleisch;
13. Closing product information loops with product embedded information devices: RFID technology and applications, models and metrics Dimitris Kiritsis, Hong-Bae Jun, and Paul Xirouchakis;
14. Moving from RFID to autonomous cooperating logistic processes Bernd Scholz-Reiter, Dieter Uckelmann, Christian Gorldt, Uwe Hinrichs, and Jan Topi Tervo;
15. Conclusions Stephen Miles, Sanjay Sarma and John Williams; Appendix: Links to RFID technology and applications resources I. RFID interface specifications; II. Test capabilities (in the order of chapters as presented); III. Simulation environments.