Founding Partners

Agenda

Friday, August 12, 2005 11:30am - 4:00pm

11:00 - 11:30am   Registration

11:30 - 11:45pm   Welcome!

                            Alfonso Gutierrez, Associate Director, Research & Education,

                            UW RFID Lab

                            Paul Peercy, UW-Madison Dean of Engineering

11:45 - 12:30pm    Lunch

12:30 - 1:30pm      Patrick Sweeney, CEO, ODIN Technologies

1:30 - 4:00pm        Tour UW RFID Lab Stations

Portal/dock-door station

Conveyor system station

    - Conveyor loop with diverter

    - 3 segments ( 250 fpm/ 600 fpm / 250 fpm)

    - State-of-the-art device network

    - Motors/Drives/ controls

    - PLC / control panel

    - Control software and HMI by Rockwell Automation

Antenna design and performance analysis station

   Facilities

      – Hardware, Software, Anechoic Chamber

   Capabilities

      – Tag Antenna Design

      – Tag Chip Impedance Measurement

      – Antenna Parameters Measurement

      - Radiation Pattern

      – Gain

      – Polarization

      – Radar Cross Section (RCS) Measurement

      – ESD Analysis for RFID Tag