After decades of use, RFID technology is going mainstream and expanding beyond the realm of tightly controlled applications and environments into the Internet of Things. Mainstream adoption of RFID technology began with broad industry standards, and has now progressed to the emergence of individual application standards. Of all the emerging applications for RFID, the Internet of Things has the most potential. RAIN RFID is the automatic identification solution for IoT. It is perfectly suited for artificial intelligence input.
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The Missing Link to iOT Computing: RAIN RFID
1. The Missing Link to iOT
Computing: RAIN RFID
Michael Hrabina
Executive Vice President
FEIG Electronics, Inc.
www.feig-electronics.com
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3. âTake a lot of unrelated and minimally related things
such as passive RFID, Zigbee, wireless sensor networks
and hobbyist micro-controllers and give them a grand
new name such as the Internet of Things. Instantly you
can claim it is a substantial market and set to be much
bigger in the future if only because you will shovel other
things into the definition. Sell it all as âThe Next Big
Thingâ. You can unload a lot of reports and
consultancy on the back of that.â
Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman IDTechEx
4. Nailing the definition of The Internet of Things
âThe Internet of Things uses smart objects with their
own IP addresses, operating and even collaborating
without human involvementâ
Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman
IDTechEx
6. Five Generations of computers
Era Technology Programming
1940-1956 Vacuum tube Machine code
1956- 1963 Transistors Assembly Language
1964-1971 Integrated Circuits Proprietary Operating
Systems
1971-Present Microprocessors Standard Operating
Systems
Beyond Massively Parallel
Processing
Quantum Computation
The next generation is Artificial Intelligence
7. Progression of computer users
Users Entity
Scientists Governments
Engineers University / Large Corporations
Skilled workers Business
Mass Population Home Users
Things Everywhere
Internet of Things is part of the fifth generation
8. AI requires many inputs
âą Voice recognition
âą Pattern recognition
âą Environmental sensors
âą Automatic Identification
RAIN RFID is the ID for IoT
9. RAIN RFID perfectly suited AI input
âą Extremely fast
âą Non-line of sight data capture
âą Simultaneous capture of large
numbers of transponders
âą Excellent read range
âą Small size, variety of form factors
âą Combined environmental sensors
These are remarkable times for the RFID industry because for the very first time since the decades of its use, RFID is going mainstream. Every application prior to this point has been a closed system. The technology was used quite well in tightly controlled applications and environments. Never in open, uncontrolled use cases
Mainstream adoption begins with technology standards and these have been established less than a decade ago in UHF RFID. Application standards could not be established before technology standards. And we are at the point where application standards are being adopted. The first of which is in the payment markets where Eurocaro, MasterCard and Visa other credit cards will begin to use a contactless RFID chip. That EMVco standard establishes the format, transfer and security of the data carrier. In this case, an RFID transponder. This will be the first open use of RFID technology where any card can be used at any terminal across any payment system. We are seeing other application standards emerge that act as a catalyst for widespread use. The most interesting of these is the Internet of Things.
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My presentation this afternoon will explain RAIN RFIDâs role in the Internet of Things.
I want to fist define the Internet of Things by what it is not.
The Internet of Things is not a technology. Although it uses technology.
The Internet of Things is not an application. Although there will be many application that use it.
The Internet of Things is not a standard. Although it depends on standards.
So what exactly is IoT?
It is an amalgamation
Not too positive is it.
The truth be told, many in the field of market research would be uncomfortable expressing this as Dr. Harrop has done. Yet, in doing so he nails a very precise point. The Internet of Things requires a variety of technologies to bring it about. IoT does not stand on a single technology, but the useful integration of many things. It is an amalgamation.
If I may continue with another quote from Dr. Harrop⊠He nails the succinct definition of IoT here. Smart object, with IP addresses operating without human intervention.
Bill Gates says âWeâre changing the world with technologyâ In my opinion, itâs how technology is used that brings about the change.
Technology creates the opportunity for change.
RAIN RFID is a technology. How will it be used in IoT?
To answer that letâs take a step back to put perspective on the subject.
To date there have been four generations of computers