Saturday, September 22, 2007

Seminar of RFID for Product Track and Trace

This beautiful Saturday, we have co-organized a RFID seminar called "Appliation of RFID and EPCIS in Production and Product Track and Trace" with City University of Hong Kong (CityU). Typically, most of the RFID application focus on Wal-Mart mandate and inventory management, but RFID is also a good AutoID technology to improve the efficiency of manufacturing processes.


Pic 1: Prof. Hsu, Head of Manufacturing Engineering Department of CityU (right), has given a speech in the seminar


Pic 2: In the seminar, I have shared the impartance of RFID middleware of a successful deployment


Pic 3: Dr. Yeung presented his project of RFID application for production and product track and trace

Pic 4: A folk lift equipped with Alien ALR-9800 reader

Pic 5: Most of the visitors were very interested in this RFID-Folk Lift

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

UHF Tag Performance Testing

Just receive a report from Alien, which is a UHF tag performance survey produced by GS1 Europe and Metro. The report analyse and compares performance of major UHF tags in the world. What make it valuable is that the entire methodology of the test is described in detail, which could give you an idea to compare the most suitable tags for your RFID projects [Download the Report]

Pic 1: Tag Measurement Setup

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Foshan RFID Business Forum

On behalf of Internet Professional Association (iProA), we went to Foshan of China to attend a RFID Business Forum to learn the government 5-Year planning of developing Foshan as a national RFID industrial base. Having more understanding of the policy, we appreciate the commitment of Foshan government on the technology.


Pic 1: The conference hall of Foshan RFID Business Forum


Pic 2: Mr. Kenny Chien (Global Business Director of ESRI Hong Kong) and me in the conference hall

Pic 3: Prof. Charles Kao, the "Father of Fiber Optic Communications", was also invited to join the Forum