Realizing the benefit of e-tagging & e-tracking using RFID technology:Kfupm experience

and the Access control project

M.W.Raad

Head of RFID research

Department of Computer Engineering, King Fahad University of Petroleum & Minerals

raad@kfupm.edu.sa

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What is RFID?

• RFID is a technology that uses radio-frequency waves to transfer data between a reader and a movable item to identify, categorize, track...

• RFID is fast, reliable, and does not require physical sight or contact between reader/scanner and the tagged item

Introduction

RFID = Radio Frequency IDentificationRFID tag = device that is designed for wireless data transmission

RFID tag

antenna

Applications

toll payment transponder libraries

passports

human implantationfor medical purposes

A surface wave transponder used pressure sensor in valve shaft of car tire valve

RFID in Fedex access control

• Business issue: Drivers spend precious time searching for keys to lock unlock doors

• An automatic keyless entry and ignition system LF134.2 Khz

• Benefits: security & time savings

Security

Transfusion: E-tagging Patients’wristbands and blood tags

Current status in managing new born babies at hospitals in Saudi Arabia

• New born babies security issues • New born babies management highly dependent on non-

automated processes. Human based tracking & validation processes. Barcode systems used today still require manual

intervention (i.e. scanning).

• Manual & Non-real time notifications of new born special care requirements when & where they are needed.

• Verification confirmation for handing over the right baby to the right parents in real time are not available with current systems.

Healthcare solution description

RFID case study to protect newly born babies At Faqeeh hospital Jeddah

Improving operational efficiency through asset tracking

Faqeeh hospital

HOW it works?

Real time location

Geofencing

Tags

Asset tracking in Najran University

Asset tracking in Najran university

RTLS at room level

Real time location Systems (RTLS)

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• A real time location system defined a system for determining location of objects

• Utilizes a network of devices to collect information from battery powered tags on their location

• As seen by several readers to accurately triangulate the location

• RTLS are more complex than RFID systems

• RTLS provide coordinated based information on where the RTLS tag is located

• Precisely mapped and compared to other tags in surroundings

• WLAN based RTLS getting widely adopted

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Real Time location system benefits

• Improve patient throughput

• Locate required people and equipment easily

• Decrease inventory costs

• Enhance equipment upgrades

RTLS case study: Long range tracking of vehicles

Introduction to smart cards& RFID Technology: The First undergraduate University course in

RFID in the region

• Presenting the most important recent advances in smart cards technology and research.

• Focusing on the most fruitful research and hot areas in these technologies.

• Underlying fundamental limitations of these technologies.

• Enabling Computer Engineering students to become pioneers in designing smart card systems.

• Exposing students to the cutting edge technology in the proposed area.

KFUPM experience in RFID & the Access control project

• KFUPM established 1963• One of first Universities in region to

establish a Smart Campus based on MIFARE contactless smart cards

• Smart campus Established in 2002• 15,000 Smart cards issued for students,

faculty and staff

 

•Identification cards for Students, Faculty, and Staff•Inventory tracking•Library card •Access control of: gates, parking, dorms, … •Photocopying and printing •Student concessions and meal services•Health services•Others?

Access control

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RFID research in KFUPM

Objectives

• To train students to develop MULTOS applications for banks & National ID

• To aid local industry

• To support National ID card program as well as projects in electronic payments & health sector

• To support new Smart Card Course: Introduction to Smart Card & RFID Technology offered as an elective course

Collaboration with MULTOS consortium

• Partnership with KFUPM in providing complete support to new Smart Card Lab

• Full technical support for students developing MULTOS based projects using SMARTDECK utilizing WEBCAST

• Providing attractive Job positions to students graduating from Smart card course

• International Certification In MULTOS for students completing the course

Potential of RFID Lab

• Conducting short courses on MULTOs for industry

• Collaboration with major companies in region

• Developing Innovative solutions

• Conducting research on performance evaluation of RFID

• Interoperability of various RFID tags

• Obtaining advanced RFID development tools

Integrating E-permitting data in location awareness:A prototype for the eco friendly Automotive using Active RFID tag+sensor

Using RFID to monitor Activity of daily living (ADL)

Web monitoring of ADL

An RFID based telemedicine Guidance system prototype for Hospital

A proof of concept for using RFID for monitoring healthy eating for children

suffering from diabetes

RFID every where (Pervasiveness)

RFID Adoption Challenges – Is the timing right??

• Cost:– Tags - currently 50 cents – need to be 5 cents or less– Readers – currently thousands of dollars – need to be hundreds of dollars– Implementation – distribution centers relatively low tech – need

networking, power, etc.• Cost benefit - must be significant enough to justify RFID cost:

– Retailers operate with small margins ( < 5%). If RFID can increase operational efficiency by 1% = major competitive advantage

Read accuracy:– accuracy not established – needs to approach 100%:

• Metal containers, liquids, Etc. impact tag readability• Taq/reader orientation: polarization effects• Reader configuration: cooperative networks of readers • Interference from other readers and other radiators

• Privacy: – See next slide

Privacy Concerns

Privacy protection

Blocker tag research

Questions??