Meeting RFID's Destiny: The Brazilian National Program to Make RFID the New Platform for Trading (RFID Europe 2009)

Dr Dario Thober,
Wernher von Braun Center for Advanced Research
Brazil
 
Sep 30, 2009.

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Presentation Summary

  • Brazil's national program in partnership with consumer industry to adopt RFID as the new platform in commerce and authentication mechanism with embedded chips into products and documents.
  • The creation and coordination of the project was a huge task developed in the recent years by Von Braun Center with Government, several civil organisations and Brazilian institutions.
  • Pilots in several states are now under concrete planning and execution.
  • The presentation aims at demonstrating the path to make RFID a real mass-scale deployment.

Speaker Biography (Dario Thober)

Dario Sassi Thober gained his PhD in Physics at Unicamp, Brazil and the Universita di Pisa, Italy (Quark - Gluon interaction). Postdoc at Enrico Fermi Institute / Fermi National Laboratory, Chicago, IL, USA (Dirac monopoles and gravitation). Dario is the founder and Director of the Wernher von Braun Center for Advanced Research. National (Brazil) RFID/AVI systems' architect and technical manager; Architect and chief-scientist of the Brazilian RFID system for products and cargo's tracking and authentication.

Company Profile (Wernher von Braun Center for Advanced Research)

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Private, not-for-profit Brazilian institution founded in 1997. Laboratory and offices in Campinas-SP and Sao Carlos-SP. Develops innovation-based projects for multinational companies and Brazilian Government in the areas of Microelectronics, Nanotechnology, Industrial and Traffic Automation (Machine Vision, RFID, IT), Hardware & Software Design and Applied Physics. Institution responsible for the development of the Brazilian AVI system and also by the creation / technical management of the Brasil-ID project (Identification, Tracking and Authentication of Goods in Brazil)
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