How to Tag... Pallets and Cases

 

As the Head of Packaging and RFID Special Interest Group at MIT, Dr Fletcher has been working with many end user companies to advance pallet and case level tagging. This effort has been particularly driven by the Wal-Mart mandate for its top 100 suppliers to be doing this in the very near future. Drawing on his academic background in the RFID field, and his insiders view on the activities of leading RFID implementors, Dr. Fletcher will inform and educate on the real issues to consider.

Rich Fletcher is a graduate of MIT, where he received his PhD in chipless RFID technology and wireless sensors. Rich also holds two undergraduate degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Physics. Rich has 11 years research experience in RFID, participating in a number of projects in industry and the military as well as academia. Rich was a member of the inventor team of the Bistatix RFID product line at Motorola and over the years has consulted for a number of companies, including MasterCard, Seimens, Becton-Dickinson, US Postal Service, and NASA. Prior to his graduate work, Rich spent five years as a research scientist at the US Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB developing novel passive microwave devices and antennas. Rich has been a member of the Materials Research Society for 14 years, and a 5-year member of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and Microwave Theory and Techniques. Rich currently heads the Packaging and RFID Special Interest Group at MIT AutoID Labs which studies the electromagnetic problems associated with integrating RFID technology for supply chain applications. Rich is currently also a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab and is founder of TagSense, Inc, an engineering and consulting firm specializing in RFID hardware, wireless sensors and RFID security. (http://www.tagsense.com)

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