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MAE 185, Winter 2016
RFID – The New Methodology in tracking
- Impact on
o Automation
o Inventory tracking
o Supply Chain
- Real-time data modification on product/assembly/component
- RFID in Aerospace and Automotive, similarities/differences
Technical parameters of RFID communication
- Frequencies, Spectrum
- Power requirements
- Standards
- Communication methods
- Hardware – readers, tags, printers, sensors
RFID Middleware for manufacturing
- Heterogeneous requirement
- Highly distributed architecture
- Components:
o Messaging platform - its discussion in middleware
o Rules-based language - Defining and executing
o Connectors – RFID network creation
Manufacturing applications
- Inventory Management
- Supply Chain
- Assembly automation
- Billing/Payments
- Enterprise Resource Planning
Inventory tracking with RFID
- Generic application
- Applicable across manufacturing
- Open-loop (supply chain) versus closed loop
- Heterogeneous RFID environment versus homogeneous environment
Supply Chain and visibility via RFID
- Automotive supply chain
- Aerospace supply chain
- Shipping/retail
- Pharmaceuticals
- Energy/grid
Data modeling in System Architecture
- Data formats in tag
- Data storage and distribution between Tag, middleware and database management systems
- Data compression, encoding/decoding
Security
- Encoding/decoding
- Encryption of data/encryption of communication
- Tag data versus tag communications protocols
- Kill tag protocol
Internet of Things or IOT Networks
- IOT applications that use various forms of RFID and related systems
- Remote sensing, data gathering, monitoring and control in IOT
- IOT networks in applications such as the Smart Grid
- IOT in devices such as Smart Phones and Home appliances.
- Architecture and networked applications of IOT devices such as Arduino and R-PI.
RFID – The New Methodology in tracking
- Impact on
o Automation
o Inventory tracking
o Supply Chain
- Real-time data modification on product/assembly/component
- RFID in Aerospace and Automotive, similarities/differences
Technical parameters of RFID communication
- Frequencies, Spectrum
- Power requirements
- Standards
- Communication methods
- Hardware – readers, tags, printers, sensors
RFID Middleware for manufacturing
- Heterogeneous requirement
- Highly distributed architecture
- Components:
o Messaging platform - its discussion in middleware
o Rules-based language - Defining and executing
o Connectors – RFID network creation
Manufacturing applications
- Inventory Management
- Supply Chain
- Assembly automation
- Billing/Payments
- Enterprise Resource Planning
Inventory tracking with RFID
- Generic application
- Applicable across manufacturing
- Open-loop (supply chain) versus closed loop
- Heterogeneous RFID environment versus homogeneous environment
Supply Chain and visibility via RFID
- Automotive supply chain
- Aerospace supply chain
- Shipping/retail
- Pharmaceuticals
- Energy/grid
Data modeling in System Architecture
- Data formats in tag
- Data storage and distribution between Tag, middleware and database management systems
- Data compression, encoding/decoding
Security
- Encoding/decoding
- Encryption of data/encryption of communication
- Tag data versus tag communications protocols
- Kill tag protocol
Internet of Things or IOT Networks
- IOT applications that use various forms of RFID and related systems
- Remote sensing, data gathering, monitoring and control in IOT
- IOT networks in applications such as the Smart Grid
- IOT in devices such as Smart Phones and Home appliances.
- Architecture and networked applications of IOT devices such as Arduino and R-PI.