Below is a list of applications available at the Centre. They demonstrate various RFID technologies and also give visitors 'hands-on' experience of real life applications.
The various demonstrators take advantage of the Java RFID Framework developed in the centre, which allows to integrate different technologies and ease the development of new RFID based applications. Currently, 14 different scanners are supported, allowing us to "mix and match" different scanners to different applications.
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The food traceability demonstrators showcases how information about ingredients, industrial processes, supply chain data and condition monitoring can be collected, related to a specific food item and collated in form of a web report accessible by the consumer, at the same time leaving the raw data accessible to allow interoperability between different partners in the supply chain to improve and optimise their operations.
The system is extremely flexible and modular and does not impose any constraint on the physical data collection - ranging from wireless sensor networks, data loggers, RFID tags and various types of barcodes.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 12:42 - Piero Filippin
 Key Tracking: this demonstrates how RFID can be used to track keys. In some environments tracking of keys is particularly important, especially if the keys are linked to secured locations or they are shared between members of your staff. When a key is not where it is supposed to be, to be able to find out who took it and when can be a life saver.
Last Updated on Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:19 - Piero Filippin
 The Smart Shelf for books tracking in libraries demonstrates how books can be tagged to trace their location on shelves and can flag misplaced books, minimising the time library staff spend performing routine checks.
Last Updated on Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:19 - Piero Filippin
 The Yard Management application shows how RFID can integrated with other technologies such as WiFi and GPS to automate the management of (in this case scrap cars, but it could be containers or pallets) in a large yard. Cheap Gen2 tags are attached to the car windows to increase the accuracy of a GPS based system, while every operation is sent in real-time to the central office.
This application has been nominated for the ICT Cluster Award 2008 (see EASYSALVAGE.com).
Last Updated on Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:20 - Piero Filippin
 The Shopping Trolley demonstrates how item level tagging with RFID labels can effectively replace barcodes for common products. While this is an unrealistic example (the cost is still too high for common products), this is useful to illustrate the difference in performances between the different technologies.
Last Updated on Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:20 - Piero Filippin
 Smart Posters are signs, billboards, or any other form of advertising which allow you to reach your target audience through the novelty of modern technology. By incorporating a passive NFC (Near Field Communication) Tag, a user can extract data by touching it with their NFC-enabled handset (as is illustrated in the picture below). The data can be anything from simple text up to video and audio content.
Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 15:00 - Piero Filippin
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 Underground scanner. This demonstration shows one of the vertical applications for the RFID technology, the location of underground assets (cables and pipes). Please see 3M Europe (external site) for additional information.
Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 15:00 - Piero Filippin
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 The Pallet Testing application is designed to measure the performances of readers in item tagging applications. In some situations, items placed in the boxes can either make a particular tag either unreadable or cast a "shadow" making boxes behind undetectable.
The application gives a helpful visual demonstration of this and helps to determine the optimum tags and antennae placements.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 12:39 - Piero Filippin
 Documents management: This demonstrates how documents can be effectively and quickly identified with the smart use of RFID.The main aim is to show how RFID technology can be integrated into important documents and improve organisations processes.
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 The smart shelf for shops demonstrates how item level tagging can be beneficial for both stock taking reasons (the inventory is kept up-to-date in real time) and for the customer.
Last Updated on Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:19 - Piero Filippin
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 The Pallet Tracking demonstrates how the king application for RFID is logistic. Antennae placed around the delivery doors immediately notifies the warehouse of an incoming delivery without manual intervention. When placed on a loading bay, the system can automatically log goods being shipped, and can parform checks to validate an order (eg check all the items and only those are present, checking the right items are loaded in the right van).
Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 09:00 - Piero Filippin
 The warehouse management demonstrates how it is possible to effectively integrate and use RFID-enabled applications to track items during the various steps of the distribution.
 The people tracking at eIC: this system has been designed to run as a pilot at the e-Innovation Centre in Telford, to track member of the staff in and out the building (and to replace the paper based presence registry). This demonstrator has been integrated with the staffs' MIFARE cards and GoldMine CMS, with the purpose of access control and centralised management of the meeting rooms.
Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 15:00 - Piero Filippin
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 Badging System for Conferences. Demonstrate the use of the GEN2 UHF technology to identify and log visitors attending to a conference. The system has been succesfully demonstrated during the IT Futures Success Stories seminar.
New! The new people badges we developed using the Intelleflex technology have been integrated with NFC tags as well - allowing the staff on the stands to track people interests and exchange contact informations with the public.
Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 15:01 - Piero Filippin
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