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Building Radio Frequency Identification solutions for the Global Environment


Building Radio Frequency Identification solutions for the Global Environment


The implementation of RFID and EPCglobal standard solutions is hindered by a number of technical, social and educational constraints. The objective of the BRIDGE project is to research, develop and implement tools to enable the deployment of EPCglobal applications in Europe.
 
The BRIDGE project consists of a series of business oriented clusters, technical development clusters and horizontal activities. The Business clusters will identify the business opportunities, analyse the requirements, establish the business case, map the requirements with the available technologies and standards, identify problem areas that should be researched. They will perform
pilots and implementation, evaluate the results and issue application guidelines for using the technology in their particular business context.
 
The technical development clusters will perform the research based on the needs expressed by the business clusters. They will address technical issues as well as organisational and policy issues. The result of their work will be provided to the business groups to enable pilots & implementations.
 
A series of horizontal activities will provide training, dissemination and exploitation services, enabling the adoption of the technology on a large scale in Europe for the sectors addressed by BRIDGE and beyond.
 
This project will deliver outstanding hardware and software components that will meet the requirements of Users. Concrete experiments will be carried out to validate the technology, to study the impact in real-life situations and to re-engineer business processes in a most efficient way. The deliverable will be widely disseminated throughout Europe by the GS1 organisations
whose membership are primarily composed of SMEs and will have significantly improved supply-chain processes and hence European competitiveness.
 


Dec. 5, 2006ÔÇöThe cochairs of the RFID Academic Convocation conferenceÔÇöBill Hardgrave, director of the RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas, and John Williams and Steve Miles, both of the Auto-ID Labs at MITÔÇötoday announced two upcoming research activities: the fourth and fifth RFID Academic Convocations.

The fourth convocation will be held in Europe as part of the program of the 2007 EU RFID Forum, to be hosted by the European Commission Directorate-General Information Society and Media in Brussels, Belgium, on March 13-14, 2007. The fifth RFID Academic Convocation will take place in the United States, hosted by RFID Journal LIVE! 2007 on April 30 in Orlando, Fla.

These two events follow a highly successful third RFID Academic Convocation in Shanghai last October. That convocation was organized by Zhang Zhiwen, director of the Department of High-Tech Development & Industrialization within the China Ministry of Science and Technology, and Yu Liu of the RFID Labs at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in conjunction with the first China International RFID Technology Development Conference & Exposition.

The RFID Academic Convocations, cohosted by the Auto-ID Labs at MIT, are led by conference committees consisting of RFID research directors responsible for the academic integrity of the convocation proceedings. The events are unique opportunities to follow the research happening around the world, and to participate in the process of road-mapping future research projects.

The convocations' objectives are to identify specific industry issues requiring a coordinated research response, define the underlying core technology research areas necessary to address these issues and continue the technology road-mapping process.

An estimated 300 people, including top academics, industry leaders, representatives of relevant user associations and organizations, and government officials, are expected to attend the 2007 EU RFID Forum. The event is being organized by the members of the EU projects BRIDGE and PROMISE, in cooperation with the Ambient Intelligence Technologies for the Product Lifecycle (AITPL) Cluster. This conference will concentrate on the identification of research needs with respect to different application areas, acting as a platform for continuing the dialogue with RFID stakeholders on a European level.

"The 2007 EU RFID Forum will bring together European Commission authorities, European and global university research centers, standard bodies and key end users," says Henri Barthel, technical director of GS1 Europe and chair of the European event's organizing committee. "The two main objectives of the event will be to contribute to building the long-term vision of ubiquitous computing, and to coordinate the programs of an ever-growing number of researchers around the world."

Among the topics the fourth RFID Academic Convocation will address, organized within the framework of the 2007 EU RFID Forum, are:
ÔÇó New applications for secure RFID systems
ÔÇó Privacy-enhancing techniques for RFID
ÔÇó Ubiquitous product life-cycle management (PLM)

Requests for more information on this event may be e-mailed to henri.barthel@gs1.org or sylvie.woelffle@ec.europa.eu.