The Design of RFID Deployment Emulator

Speaker:	Dr. Junfang ZENG
		Associate Professor
		RFID Research Center, Institute of Automation
		Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA)

Title:		"The Design of RFID Deployment Emulator"

Date: 		Tuesday, 31 July 2007

Time:		11:00am - 12 noon

Venue:		Room 3501 (via lift nos. 25/26), HKUST


Abstract:

RFID finds wide-ranging applications in many fields. When customers
decide to implement a RFID project, they are possibly confused with
some technical problems while selecting the RFID tags and readers to be
deployed in their systems. Due to the environment complexity, a general
RFID deployment strategy is inapplicable that means the customers must
create their own specific one. A emulator for RFID deployment strategy
design, view, test and evaluation is helpful in walking customers
through their problems. We design and implement a visual simulation
platform in order to improve the deployment efficiency for a RFID
application. The proposed emulator involves four activities: 1) modeling
the virtual devices: tags, readers and sensors; 2) simulating the "key
events" of a RFID system with two levels: reader events and business
events; 3) design the deployment strategy of a RFID system by
simulations; 4) evaluating the strategy and optimizing it by
introducing test data to improve the models. The RFID deployment
emulator is general that can be applied in different fields.


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Biography:

Dr. ZENG Junfang, born in 1966, currently an associate professor of RFID
Research Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
(CASIA). She received the B.S. in 1988 and M.S. degree in 1991 from
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, and the
Ph.D. degree in 1998 from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, majoring in Automatic Control. From 1991 to 1993, she was
employed in the 8th Design Institute of Shanghai Aerospace Bureau,
involving with control system modeling and simulation of aircraft. She
has been working in CASIA since 1996, involving with Process Control,
System Integration, Web-based Application, Distributed Computing, RFID.
In 2002, she was funded by JSPS (Japanese Science Promotion Society) to
conduct co-research on motion planning and simulation of 3D modular
robot in the Institute of Intelligent Systems, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan.
>From 2004 to present, she has been engaged in R&D on Radio Frequency
identification (RFID) technology, focusing on RFID testing and RFID
networking. She has accomplished more than 5 important national
programs, authored over 30 academic papers and numerous proposals, and
fosters graduate students as well. She is currently a vice director of
the RFID Research Center, in charge of R&D activities and administrative
work of the center. She has accomplished two National Hi-Tech Program
(863 Plan) projects in RFID: Research on RFID Testing Technology
oriented to Logistics, as a key member;Research and Development of
RFID Key Technologies, as the person in charge. She took part in the
work of composing White Paper on China's RFID Technology and Policy
which was formally issued on June 9, 2006, as well as participated in
developing the National 11th Five-year Plan guideline of RFID
Technologies and Applications. She is now an expert of National RFID
Standardization Working Group, expert of China Automatic Identification
Association (AIA), and member of editorial board of China Auto-ID journal.