Low Cost Active Tags: The Future of RFID

Dr Daniel W Engels, Director, Texas RFID Center

University of Texas at Arlington, United States

This presentation was given at Active RFID Summit 2007 on Dec 06, 2007.

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Presentation Summary

Active RFID systems are poised to move beyond being the expensive Class 4 brother of low cost Class 1 passive tags and become the Big Brother that surpasses passive tags in performance and deployments, with a lower price. This talk will examine the technology trends and new technologies that will enable active systems to become low price leaders in the RFID marketplace.

Speaker Biography (Daniel W Engels)

Dr. Daniel W. Engels is the Founding Director of the Texas Radio Frequency Innovation and Development Center headquartered at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Dr. Engels is the former Director of Research of the Auto-ID Labs at MIT and is an original member of the research team started in 1998 that founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT. Dr. Engels is one of the principal architects of the Networked Physical World EPC System, the foundation of the Internet of Things, developed under the Auto-ID Center and licensed to EPCglobal Inc.

Dr. Engels received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has over 30 peer reviewed publications in RFID, RFID applications, security, embedded computing, and computer-aided design.

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