J. Vales-Alonso, E. Egea-López, M. Bueno-Delgado, J. Alcaraz
{"title":"Analysis of Tag Loss Ratio in dynamic RFID systems","authors":"J. Vales-Alonso, E. Egea-López, M. Bueno-Delgado, J. Alcaraz","doi":"10.3233/RFT-2010-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RFT-2010-005","url":null,"abstract":"Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems promise a revolution in logistics and inventory applications. By means of wireless communication, a master device can detect and identify nearby elec- tronic tags. Traditionally, the performance of RFID systems and their identification protocols has been analyzed for static configurations, that is, without considering incoming or outgoing tags, but just a fixed number of initially unidentified tags. However, many real scenarios cannot be consistently modeled that way. In this work we introduce a Markov model which allows us to study a dynamic RFID tag scenario, where a flow of tags is considered. This model can be used to compute the Tag Loss Ratio, which measures the ratio of outgoing unidentified tags to the incoming tags in the system, which is a critical metric in dynamic configurations. The analysis is carried out for two families of protocols used as medium access control in RFID, Framed Slotted Aloha and non-persistent CSMA. With the aim of validating the analysis predictions, we get simulation results, by means of a simulator. We evaluate a scenario similar to a real application, i.e. a mail control system based on RFID.","PeriodicalId":259055,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. RF Technol. Res. Appl.","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117093440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Chellaswamy, T. Geetha, A. Vanathi, K. Venkatachalam
{"title":"An IoT based rail track condition monitoring and derailment prevention system","authors":"C. Chellaswamy, T. Geetha, A. Vanathi, K. Venkatachalam","doi":"10.3233/rft-190210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/rft-190210","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new method for monitoring the irregularities in railway tracks by updating the status of the tracks in the cloud. The IoT based Railway Track Monitoring System (IoT-RMS) is proposed for monitoring the health of the railway track. The system identifies any abnormality in the tracks at an early stage. These abnormalities are rectified before they develop for smoother transportation. The micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) accelerometers are placed in the axle box for measuring the signal. It becomes hard to identify the exact location of abnormalities when the global positioning system (GPS) falters due to signalling issues. In this paper, a new hybrid method is proposed for locating irregularities on a track; even in the absence of a GPS signal. Pre-processing of the GPS signal is carried out effectively because the sensors used in IoT-RMS are capable of functioning in a high noise environment. The IoT-RMS updates the location of the abnormality in the cloud and shares it with other trains that will be passing through that location. As a result, the drivers of trains respond accordingly and avoid derailment. An experimental setup has been developed for a study of the performances for four different abnormal cases, and the result shows the effectiveness of the proposed system.","PeriodicalId":259055,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. RF Technol. Res. Appl.","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127338698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RFID for fashion: Advancements in research, technology and implementation","authors":"E. Bottani, Sandeep Goyal, Andrea Volpi","doi":"10.3233/RFT-140065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RFT-140065","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":259055,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. RF Technol. Res. Appl.","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114592807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LocAWS: A location-aware system for manufacturing plants","authors":"Jacky S. L. Ting, Albert H. C. Tsang","doi":"10.3233/RFT-171646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RFT-171646","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":259055,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. RF Technol. Res. Appl.","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121468654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RFID based intelligent traffic information acquisition system","authors":"Fang Wan, Ming Li","doi":"10.3233/rft-190191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/rft-190191","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":259055,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. RF Technol. Res. Appl.","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122136434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of potential effects of RFID-based item-level tracing systems on the integrity of biological pharmaceutical products","authors":"M. Maffia, L. Mainetti, L. Patrono, E. Urso","doi":"10.3233/RFT-2012-022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RFT-2012-022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":259055,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. RF Technol. Res. Appl.","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116901228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yao Wang, Jiaxin Liu, Liangbo Xie, Jing Chen, G. Wen
{"title":"Design of a semi-passive UHF RFID tag IC with freight security monitoring function","authors":"Yao Wang, Jiaxin Liu, Liangbo Xie, Jing Chen, G. Wen","doi":"10.3233/RFT-120039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RFT-120039","url":null,"abstract":"A semi-passive ultra-high-frequency-band radio frequency identification tag IC with freight security monitoring function is proposed. The tag can record the number of times a container has been opened during transport and is compatible with Electronic Product Code Class-1 Generation-2 protocol. A switch-state monitoring unit is presented with power control logic that makes the tag return to sleep mode after each recording operation. An optimized differential rectifier is designed after the analysis and comparison of the different rectifier architectures. The rectifier is designed along with a voltage regulator and a wake-up circuit to comprise a power management unit for generating two output voltages of 1 and 1.8 V at 915 MHz. A baseband processor with a jitter suppression module is employed to improve system reliability. The tag chip is designed in TSMC 0.18m CMOS process and simulated with Spectre. According to the simulation results, the power consumption of the tag is 9.56W under activation mode, and the sleep current is only 645 pA under the typical condition.","PeriodicalId":259055,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. RF Technol. Res. Appl.","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116960886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A scenario analysis for evaluating RFID investments in pallet management","authors":"M. Gnoni, A. Rollo","doi":"10.3233/RFT-2010-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RFT-2010-001","url":null,"abstract":"Pallet management, which involves direct and reverse logistic models, may represent a critical activity for logistics provider firms. Pallets are needed in order to ship products from the produc- ers/distributors to the retailers. Recently, pilot projects have demonstrated that performances of pallet management system could be improved by an advance tracking system based on Radio Frequency IDenti- fication (RFID). RFID systems can increase effectiveness in acquiring data about properties of any entity - such as pallet - that can be physically identified and traced. In this paper, an effective model, based on the well known Activity Based Costing (ABC) technique, is proposed to evaluate economic feasibility of different design decisions regarding the whole pallet management system of a logistics provider. The model has been applied to different operational scenarios in a real case study: The scenario analysis aims to compare different configurations of pallet management systems based on RFID applications. Results obtained highlight how an RFID application is economically sustainable to reduce the overall cost of pal- let management activities in different operational conditions. Finally, based on cost structure previously evaluated by the ABC model, an investment evaluation based on traditional indexes (e.g. ROI, Net Present Value, etc.) has been carried out. Therefore, the integration of the ABC model with traditional investment analysis has improved the effectiveness and the reliability of the feasibility study for evaluating RFID investments in pallet management.","PeriodicalId":259055,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. RF Technol. Res. Appl.","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115042298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does RFID improve inventory accuracy? A preliminary analysis","authors":"B. Hardgrave, John A. Aloysius, Sandeep Goyal","doi":"10.1080/17545730802338333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17545730802338333","url":null,"abstract":"For the adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) to continue at or beyond its current pace, it is important to investigate the business value created by the technology. In previous studies, we have shown how RFID can improve in‐stock position. Other studies have shown the benefit of RFID for promotional items. In this vein of continuing to prove the business case for RFID, we examine RFID's impact on inventory accuracy. Inventory accuracy is one of the keys to an efficient and effective supply chain, yet is often referred to as the ‘missing link’ in retail execution. Forecasting, ordering, and replenishment use inventory records as input, and the quality of these functions is impacted by inventory accuracy. To study the impact of RFID on inventory accuracy, Wal‐Mart commissioned a study to examine the store‐level influence of RFID on perpetual inventory. For 23 weeks, a single category of product (air fresheners) was inventoried daily in eight test stores equipped with a new RFID‐based perpetual ...","PeriodicalId":259055,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. RF Technol. Res. Appl.","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128561081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opportunities for using RFID in the aircraft production process","authors":"V. Mancini, Matteo Pasquali, M. Schiraldi","doi":"10.3233/RFT-2012-027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RFT-2012-027","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of the economical evaluation of the possibility of RFID technology adoption in an European company involved in the manufacturing of the fuselage of a new long-range, mid-size, wide-body jet airliner made of carbon fibre reinforced polymer. The peculiar constraints to the management of some of the raw materials - Time And Temperature Sensitive (TATS) materials - has pushed the Company to consider RFID tags introduction despite the fact that the material supplier did not provide any support. Thus, the most important impulse to the introduction of the RFID system in the Company has been given by the problems encountered in the management of TATS materials. However, further analyses are presented on the opportunity for the Company of extending RFID application to non- TATS materials. In this sense, several scenarios are presented, evaluating investment in hardware and tags costs with respect to advantages in terms of time savings in material handling processes or costs saving in terms of inventory misalignment reductions. In most scenarios, RFID introduction resulted to be profitable.","PeriodicalId":259055,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. RF Technol. Res. Appl.","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122026133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}