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RFID, Sensors,
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RFID, Sensors, Wireless Network & ROI: A 4-Day Course
Target Audience: This course is organised by The Logistics
Institute – Asia Pacific (TLI-AP) with subject experts from the
USA. Participants will consists of potential RFID users and
decision-makers from a broad spectrum of the Logistics and
ICT Industry.
Objectives of Course: This course introduces the important
topic of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). It will provide
an excellent overview to the executives, engineers and
managers that need to understand the terminology of the
topic, and its applications. It reinforces the material learned
with on-hands experience with RFID tags, readers, and
signals captured by antennas. It further provides a
background overview of RFID, Sensors and Wireless
technology and explain the important integration concepts for
the participants to learn the integration techniques required
for a complete solution. The course ends with application
scenarios, best practices, techniques and models for
measuring and managing the business value and ROI for a
solution.
DAY 1
Part I – Setting The Stage
Course Admin – Registration and course administration,
welcome address, attendance, ice breaker introduction
Pre-course assessment (MCQ)
Definition of RFID
Examples of RFID in our world
RFID infrastructure
• Tags
• Readers
• Antennas
• Middleware
• Standards
Making the decision to deploy RFID
Road map to implementation
Experiment 1 – RFID Basics
Placing tags, reading tags, collecting data from tags,
converting that data to use for an appropriate purpose
Active solutions
Passive solutions
Part II – Past, Present, and Future of RFID
The history of RFID
Comparison to barcodes
Electronic data interchange
EPCglobal networking
Global data synchronization
Part III – Detailed View of RFID
Antennas
Integrated circuit
PCB/Substrate
Active tags, semi-active tags, passive tags, semi-passive
tags, etc.
EPCglobal tag classification
Operating frequencies
RF characteristics
• Data rate
• Permittivity
• Distance
• Command set
• Regulation
• Reader components
• Tag & reader communication
Experiment 2 – RFID Characteristics
Experimenting with different kinds of tags in different
environments to understand the operating
characteristics of tag and reader communication.
Active solutions
Passive solutions
DAY 2
Part IV – Privacy and Security
The issues that have been raised
Specific examples that are sensitizing the public
(passports, for example)
Guidelines that are being considered
Global activities to insure privacy
Experiment 3 – RFID Enhanced Solutions
See examples of enhanced solutions such as:
IR-SignPost technology
Acoustic-SignPost technology
Multi-Antennae design
Learn the limits of the ability to read tags and effects of
shields to block the ability to read tags. Examine
pitfalls to avoid when considering environmental and
human factors.
Part V – Interesting and Unusual Appln
Cold Chain
Tracking
Racing
Part V – The Business Case
Parameters and costs
Industry benchmarks
Calculating return on investment (ROI)
DAY 3
Part VII – Wireless Background
Provide a background and understanding of
currently available and emerging Personal Area
Network technologies such as IR, Bluetooth, UWB-
USB.
Understand Wireless LAN options and
configurations for WiFi – 802.11 a/b/g/n
Positioning and purpose of MANs, Distribution and
Backhaul Systems such as MuniWifi, WiMAX
(802.16-2004 and 802.16e), and WiBro
Understand cellular technology and service such as
1XRTT, GSM/GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA, UMTS, CDMA,
FOMA
Review of device configuration and software
development options and trends
Identify Satellite System Options such as GEO,
LEO, MEO

RFID, Sensors, Wireless Network & ROI: A 4-Day Course
Understanding of GPS and how it relates to wireless
systems and Location Based Services
Explore emerging trends and directions in wireless such as
4G, MIMO, Mesh Networks, Unified Networks, Cognitive
Radio
Review of Security Risk and Mitigation for Wireless
systems
Part VIII – Wireless Sensor Network
Sensor basics – types of sensors and how they work
Options for tracking in-building and tradeoffs of systems
using WiFi, active RFID and other approaches
Techniques for determining location: choke point basics,
room/regional approach, triangulation, cricket, UWB, Smart
Finger Prints
Understand the tradeoffs in accuracy, costs, and
complexity of choosing Real Time Tracking Systems
Item level tracking – HF, UHF, RuBee and UWB
Wireless Sensor Networks: ZigBee, Insteon, Zen-sys and
Proprietary systems
Types of Wireless Mesh Architectures – and why Mesh is
important: Network Architectures, Security Architectures
and Application Frameworks
GPS and how it relates to the tracking cycle for end-to-end
visibility: passive, active and semi-passive
The evolving role of battery assisted passive tags
Tying it all together – how sensors, wireless networks and
RFID can be integrated for new levels of performance and
types of functionality/solutions
How wireless communications is related to RFID
technology solutions.
Part IX – RFID And Wireless Sensor Network
Learn the core issues around the Item level tracking
debate and the use HF, UHF, RuBee and UWB
technologies.
Explore the evolving role of battery assisted passive tags.
Examine GPS and how it relates to the full tracking cycle
for end-to-end visibility with passive, active and semipassive
systems; compare with other location-based
service alternatives for tracking.
DAY 4
Part X – ROI Workshop
This final part of the workshop provides guidance and tools
for participants to oversee any RFID / Sensor / Wireless
initiative. Among the many hurdles to overcome, with the
adoption of any new technology, is business justification.
Ironically, the seemingly extensive potential inherent in RFID
is matched by its elusiveness to conventional, quantitative
ROI analysis and business case development. This workshop
was developed with this challenge in mind.
Business cases for organisation pursuing advanced
tracking technologies in supply chain and logistics
management
Understanding RFID, sensors & wireless (RSW)
technologies as enablers of operational improvement in
supply chain and logistics
The compelling link between RSW functionality and
business benefit
Leveraging the RSW toolset for operational, tactical
and strategic advantage across the supply chain
Value creation through RSW enabled improvement
in supply chain management
The impact of RSW Technology Maturity Tippingpoints
(TMTs) on project value assessment
New types of business value – new components of
RSW justification
RSW applications and their ROI potential
Short, intermediate and long term aspects of RSW
value creation
Incorporating new ROI components into your
business case for RSW technologies
Post-course assessment (MCQ)
TRAINERS’ PROFILES
JERRY BANKS is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of
eleven books (example Handbook of Simulation, John
Wiley, 1998 and Discrete-Event Systems Simulation, 4 th
Ed, Prentice-Hall, 2005), one set of proceedings, several
chapters in texts, and numerous technical papers. He is
currently writing, with three co-authors, RFID Applied, to be
published by John Wiley with an in-stock date of April, 2007.
He teaches short courses on simulation, RFID, and supply
chain management throughout the world. He is a full member
of many technical societies including the Institute of Industrial
Engineers (IIE) for which he served eight years as that
organization's representative to the Board of the Winter
Simulation Conference, including two years as Board Chair.
He was named a Fellow of IIE in 2002.
MANUEL A. PACHANO has a degree in Systems
Engineering from the University of Florida and a Masters
degree in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of
Technology. Mr. Pachano had the opportunity of working with
Fortune-500 companies world-wide on consultation and
implementation services for supply chain optimization
projects. Through research engagements Mr. Pachano
became familiar with the world of RFID. He and his partners
co-founded two RFID-based companies. USBiogistics, Inc.,
specializes in asset management and tracking services to the
health care industry. Condition Based Logistics, Inc. (CBL),
specializes in asset management and tracking services for
aero-space and automotive companies. He is a co-author of
RFID Applied.
FRAN RABUCK is a thought leader, speaker, writer, advisor,
judge and internationally recognized expert in mobile and
wireless, media, and collaboration technologies. Fran is
involved in education at the University level, having
developed and taught computer science courses for Thomas
Jefferson University. He has provided consulting and training
on a variety of topics with his most recent work focused on
wireless sensors, RFID, Video Security for government
agencies, and pharmaceutical and healthcare supply chains.
WONG TACK WAI was with the National Library Board to
lead the roll-out of the revolutionary use of RFID for the
circulation of library materials and the development of
innovative library services for public. He has spoken widely
on the NLB RFID Journey at home and abroad in countries
like New Zealand, Italy, UK, USA, France and even Kuwait in
the Middle East. On the EPC front, he has received EPC

4-Day Course On
RFID, Sensors, Wireless
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Network & ROI 19 & 20, 22 & 23 March 2007
(Mon & Tue, Thu & Fri)
4-DAY RFID COURSE
FEE: S$ 4,000 + GST
VENUE: TLI – AP Executive Training
Centre
National University of Singapore
Block E3A, Level 3
7 Engineering Drive 1
Singapore 117574
For more details, contact:
Elaine Wu
DID: (65) 6516 5403 Fax: (65) 6775
3391
Email: tliproed@nus.edu.sg
Course details and online registration:
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), sensors and wireless
networks will bring about a new era in supply chain management
and transform the way businesses is conducted in offering greater
transparency through real-time data capture and asset tracking.
Most of these technology adoption projects require careful planning,
understanding and integration of related technologies like wireless
connections and sensors, in order to design and deploy complete,
successful solutions. This course will provide a background overview of
RFID, Sensors and Wireless technology and explain the important
integration concepts required for both executives and systems engineers.
The course starts with an overview of wireless communications and how it
is related to RFID and Sensor technology. It continues with a fast track
overview on critical RFID background and principles. After providing a
background on wireless communications, Auto-ID technologies like RFID,
and sensor measurements and applications, the student will learn the
integration techniques required for a complete solution. The course ends
with application scenarios, best practices, and techniques and models for
measuring and managing the business value and ROI for a solution.
Sign up NOW for RFID, Sensors, Wireless Network And ROI !
This training programme is specially designed to equip supply chain and
ICT professionals with the knowledge and skills to identify, justify and
implement RFID, sensors and wireless network projects. This will lead to
increase in business efficiencies and competitiveness of the logistics
industry and strategically reinforces Singapore’s position as the leading
logistics hub in Asia Pacific.
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