RFID and Wine
Alfio Grasso
Deputy Director
Auto-ID Lab, ADELAIDE
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Agenda
Background on Auto-ID Lab
RFID
ZORK
RFID Enabled ZORK
Wine Industry Survey
Conclusions
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Adelaide, Auto-ID Lab
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The Auto-ID Laboratories
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Auto-ID Labs
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One of 7 Auto-ID
Labs around the
world
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MIT, USA
Cambridge, UK
Adelaide, Australia
Keio, Japan
Fudan, China
St Gallen,
Switzerland
ICU, Korea
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Research Projects
The design of cost effective and small footprint tag
antennas, suitable for attachment onto metal surfaces.
Interference studies in high density reader
environments.
Electromagnetic propagation studies applicable to
European Regulations
High security authentication tags
Dual frequency tags, ones that employ UHF techniques
for supply chain applications and then HF for item
management applications.
Passive RFID chip design (modules for implementation)
Analysis and measurement of new forms of reader to
tag signalling
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RFID
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Anatomy of an RFID Solution
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Solution Components:
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Tag
Label
Printer
Reader
Antenna
Communications
Middleware
Enterprise Applications
Systems Integration
Network Infrastructure
Network Applications
* Slide courtesy of RFID Business Association http://www.rfidba.org/
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What is RFID?
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an
automatic identification method, relying on storing
and remotely retrieving data using devices called
RFID tags or transponders.
An RFID tag consists of……
An Antenna, and
An Integrated Circuit
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An RFID Chip (Integrated Circuit)
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An RFID Tag Antenna
Enables the chip to receive and respond to radiofrequency queries from an RFID transceiver.
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RFID Readers
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Host CPU
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Application
Do something with the tag information
Potential to generate massive amounts of
data
Once installed it costs virtually NOTHING
to read a tag!
Real time data => real time decisions
0HIO (Zero Human Involvement
Operations)*
* Term defined by John Greaves, CHEP International
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ZORK
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RFID enabled ZORK
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Wine Industry Survey
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Wine Industry Survey
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Final Year 2007 Project
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Survey wine industry on possible benefits of RFID enabled ZORK
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Benefits
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Authentication
Inventory
Supply Chain Visibility
Theft Reduction
Security of Supply Chain
History of individual bottle
ePedigree
Product Information
Tamper evidence
Rebate systems based on previous sales performance
Cross Promotional Opportunities
Verification of Organically Grown Produce
Variable pricing
Impending use by dates
Developed an application to demonstrate the benefits
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Survey Diversity
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Most Beneficial Advantage
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Conclusions
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Conclusions
RFID has low to moderate technical risk
Auto-ID Lab commercial success in RFID
developments
RFID enabled ZORK ready for commercial
development
Applications developed showing some of the
benefits of RFID enabled ZORK
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Thank you & Questions
Alf Grasso
alf@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au
(08) 8303 6473
0402 037 968