Research & Projects

The UW RFID Lab was created to support research by members of the UW RFID Industry Workgroup, and as a resource for other companies.

Here is a partial list of issues the UW RFID Lab is currently addressing:

How the product contents, packaging and media affect RFID system performance?

• Readability (single tag, multi-tag)
• Write-ability
• Packaging re-design guideline

How external environmental conditions affect RFID system performance and ways to overcome these effects.

• Interferences
• Durability

How individual RFID system components affect the overall system performance and how to improve it?

• Tag design (tag antenna, substrates)
• Reader design (reader antenna, reader controller)
• Network architecture
• Data architecture (data structures / data management)
• Software architecture

How RFID can transform business and supply chain processes

      - Simulation models of RFID-enabled supply chain processes