• Aug , 23 2017

The smart home paradigm is a promising new trend of research aiming to propose an alternative to postpone the institutionalization of cognitively-impaired silver-aged people. These habitats are intended to provide security, guidance and direct support services to its resident. To be able to fulfill this important mission, a smart home system first has to identify the ongoing activities of its user...

• Aug , 28 2017

More and more retail chains today have the need for automated monitoring of the number of customers in cash register lines in real time. Previously developed systems have proved to be insufficiently effective because they involved additional and unpleasant interaction between customers and employees or monitoring in the way that threatens the privacy of customers. To avoid such problems, it was ne...

• Aug , 29 2017

With the rapid development of high technologies, home appliance production has changed its style from the technology-intensive industry into the labor-intensive industry. A bottle neck has been forming between the time-consuming material preparation processes and the rapid production paces. To solve these conflicts, RFID based applications are proposed to promise rapid and efficient working styles...

• Aug , 31 2017

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is the use of radio waves and electromagnetic fields to automatically read information stored on tags which are attached to objects for identification. A RFID system can be made up of three components: readers, tags and application software. Unlike barcodes, RFID tags can be embedded in the tracked objects and do not need to be within the line of sight of the ...

• Sep , 01 2017

RFID technology is becoming popular also in robotics. Indeed, if passive tags are used as landmarks and the robot is equipped with a reader, RFID does naturally become a considerable and cost-effective support for mobile robot navigation and localization. At the state of the art, RFID-assisted navigation tests are performed by using commercial robots equipped with several sensors and an RFID reade...

• Sep , 13 2017

The RFID technology can be of most useful help in short range surveillance and monitoring as it is both efficient and cost effective. Using RFID tags to uniquely identify a person or an object is achieved easily. The whole apparatus is easily scalable to achieve higher distance ranges by using higher grade tags or by using battery powered active tags. A key challenge in Radio Frequency Identificat...