http://www.autoidlabs.org Announcements of all AutoID-Labs organisations en PMK RSS Newsfeed Export (pmk_rssnewsexport) running on Typo3 CMS 3.7.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 2006 Auto-ID Labs rsseditor@autoidlabs.org webmaster@autoidlabs.org \r\nRFID technology is currently considered as a key enabler of supply chain transformation. However, very little has been written about the deployment and use of RFID in the dairy industry. Drawing on an extensive literature review and a case example, this exploratory study seeks to present current applications and issues related to RFID’s adoption in the dairy industry and discuss future research directions.\r\n samuel.fosso-wamba@polymtl.ca http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/340/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/340/ Topic Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:44:37 CEST The existing standards dealing with Auto-ID data for supply chain scenarios do not integrate sensor information from the products that are being monitored. In particular, although a number of efforts have been undertaken in the last few years to incorporate sensor data inside the EPCglobal Network, its has proven to be a slow process due to both the complexity of the task and the standardization processes themselves. On the other hand, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has been developing a ... fmichahelles@ethz.ch http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/335/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/335/ Thesis Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:33:37 CET The carbon footprint of products is emerging as an important indicator for the economic and environmental sustainability of supply chains. Companies are increasingly using this measure to learn where in the value chain they can most easily and cost-efficiently reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Pressure from major consumer segments and upcoming governmental legislation are adding to the internal pressure to account for product-level environmental impact. Companies have an opportunity to lev... fmichahelles@ethz.ch http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/334/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/334/ Thesis Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:36:59 CET With this paper, I first and foremost want to render an account of what I think the IOT is, what its constituting concepts are and which main impacts on society and economy we can see today and expect in the near future. Doing so, I want to provide my research team, students and, perhaps colleagues in academia and industry with a baseline and some directions for ongoing and future research and development endeavors. Thus, this paper is targeted towards students, practitioners and researchers wh... fmichahelles@ethz.ch http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/331/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/331/ Topic Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:56:15 CET What makes companies such as Wal-Mart in the U.S., Metro Group in Germany and Tesco in the United Kingdom, so willing to adopt RFID technology? More precisely, what are those factors that matter most and least to firms when considering an investment in RFID? And how does the importance of such factors vary between adopters and non-adopters? The answers to these questions are important because they indicate where future development effort should be directed to increase the rate of RFID adoption.... samuel@uow.edu.au http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/326/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/326/ Topic Sat, 02 May 2009 11:39:00 CEST The EPCIS specification allows for sharing item-level event data between business partners in a standardized way. As EPCIS event data represents measured points of actual business processes, business intelligence methods can be applied in order to detect inefficiencies (such as shipment delays, inventory shrinkage or out-of-stock) in supply chains. In order to deal with the overwhelming number of single events that are generated during operations, we propose a mix of automated analysis techniqu... mlehtonen@ethz.ch http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/325/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/325/ Topic Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:07:18 CET Sensor profile service consists of two different network domains: a wireless sensor network and networked architecture. Base stations are located on intermediate of both sides. Our approach is to store sensor profile in servers on the Internet, and allow networked clients to search or download relevant profile using an EPC of target sensor node. To identify sensor nodes we assign EPCs to sensor nodes. To find authorized sensor profile servers, called sensor profile server, we adopt resolution ... mlehtonen@ethz.ch http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/324/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/324/ Topic Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:37:13 CET In this whitepaper, we focus on the anti-collision schemes to improve the readability, identification speed, of low-cost passive RFID systems. Generally, the tree based algorithms send a prefix twice except the last bit in the same tree depth. Focusing on this characteristic, both the prefix overhead and the iteration overhead are reduced by the time divided responses depending on whether the collided bit is ‘0’ or ‘1’. Thus we call the protocols taking\r\nthe time-divided responses as bi-slott... mlehtonen@ethz.ch http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/323/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/323/ Topic Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:21:14 CET It is well known that RFID is subject to various security threats, most notably tag cloning and tracking. To cope with these security threats, we need to implement cryptographic protocols on RFID tags. However, designing a cryptographic protocol is a difficult process. It is even more difficult when the design is restricted by the limited computational power of the targeted devices. Meanwhile, RFID tag is perhaps the device with least computational power due to a very tight price constraint of ... mlehtonen@ethz.ch http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/322/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/322/ Topic Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:12:21 CET A security enhanced tag developed by Fudan University is introduced in this paper. This tag is designed to be compatible with EPC Class 1 Generation 2 protocol (EPC C1G2), and can be extended to support mutual authentication and to encrypt communication between reader and tag. A mutual authentication scheme is proposed, and low cost cryptographic algorithm core is implemented in the tag to accomplish authentication and encrypted data exchange, in order to resist the tracing attack and common at... mlehtonen@ethz.ch http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/321/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/321/ Topic Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:35:56 CET In this whitepaper, we focus on the anti-collision issues in EPC Gen2 Protocol, which is specified for passive UHF RFID system. In this case, we only take ‘Dynamic Framed Aloha’ schemes into consideration. When signals from more than two tags collide, from the traditional view, reader can not recognize any of them. However, this assumption turns out to be too pessimistic in RFID environment, where the so-called “capture effect” may take place. Capture effect happens when signals transmitted fr... mlehtonen@ethz.ch http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/320/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/320/ Topic Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:33:50 CET In this paper we discuss the MobileIoT Toolkit. This software framework offers a number of tools to ease the design and implementation of Java Mobile application prototypes interacting with the Internet of Things. In particular, we focus on mobile phones accessing a “standardized Internet of Things”, known as the EPC Network (Electronic Product Code). In this paper we introduce the EPC Network and then describe the toolkit. Finally, we introduce two applications based on the toolkit. mlehtonen@ethz.ch http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/319/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/319/ Topic Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:28:09 CET Networked RFID system have been recognized as a powerful industrial tool to enhance the visibility in supply chains by applying RF tags to packages and cases. As the adoption of the technology has been expanded, there has been a strong industrial demand to apply RF tags to product itself for the information management for the entire product life cycle, i.e. the item level tagging. The demand is particularly strong in the consumer electronics arena where manufactures are responsible, at least in... mlehtonen@ethz.ch http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/318/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/318/ Thesis Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:04:36 CET In this paper, we propose a ubiquitous product rating system. First we provide an overview of state-of-the-art product recommendation, concluding that current approaches do not support in-store consumers; i.e. consumers on the shop floor. Within shops however is where three out of four buying decisions are made. Hence we propose APriori, a new approach towards mobile product recommendation. APriori makes product recommendation available for mobile users. These utilize their phones to identify t... mlehtonen@ethz.ch http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/316/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/316/ Topic Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:22:40 CET In the era of ubiquitous devices and mobility, we increasingly carry objects of great value (in terms of data, money or emotions). Because of our increased mobility, we are also more inclined to lose these objects. When it comes to finding them again, current lost property offices seem rather inflexible and not fully adapted to our nomad lives. They lack dynamic information, introduce too many intermediates and induce high costs. We support the growth of a community of users able to solve the p... mlehtonen@ethz.ch http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/315/ http://www.autoidlabs.org/rssdetail/dir/article/1/315/ Topic Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:21:29 CET