AGENDA

1. History 2. RFID Skills 3. RFID Development 4. Business Cases 5. New trends & Vision 6. UHF Brazilian Band Notes 7. Conclusion

1 RFID CoE History

1st EPCglobal Accredited Test Center Customer Experience Application Development •Solutions for HP operations •R&D activities Noise & Qualification • Dynamic Door Portal Test • Dynamic Conveyor Portal Test • Static & Tag Performance Test RFID for Future • RFID Community (universities and other labs) • Member of EPCGlobal, leading standard developments • RFID as a part of IoT technology • RFID as a system • Training Center

2 RFID Skills

RFID CoE conducts research & development, RFID innovative solutions and cutting-edge applications customized for each client, including antennas projects, reader design and process’ automation.

• Process Analysis • RFID Solutions Development • Noise & Qualification Tests • Antennas Development • RFID Hardware Development • RFID Software Development • RFID Education

RFID Skills

RFID Development

3

RFID DEVELOPMENT

Noise and Qualification Laboratory First laboratory in the world to be accredited by EPCglobal within the scopes of Dynamic Door Portal, Dynamic Conveyor Portal and Static Test Method Noise & Qualification Portfolio tests: EPCglobal Door Portal Test EPCglobal Conveyor Portal Test EPCglobal Static Test RFID Tag Performance Test HW/SW Performance Test Tag Positioning Test Impact Test Customized Test

RFID DEVELOPMENT

Application Laboratory Development of customized solutions and cutting-edge applications using RFID for each client

Application of Portfolio: RFID CoE Arquitecture Development Service

RFID CoE Site Survey

RFID CoE Proof of Concept

RFID CoE Infrastructure Definition

RFID CoE Customized Solution

RFID DEVELOPMENT

Applied EM & Antennas Lab

Antennas Development for RFID Readers

Electromagnetism Development solutions

Antennas Development for RFID tags

Antennas Development 800MHz- 20GHz

RFID DEVELOPMENT

RFID CoE Education Center Introduction to RFID technology and the potentials of EPC RFID Implementation (four days)

RFID Middleware (two days)

Case Studies / ROI for RFID (one day)

CoE Certification

RFID in Company (on-demand)

Business Cases

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Four RFID stations per line:

– Serializing

– Bulk Pack

– Packing

– Palletizing

RFID Tag printed by Zebra EPC commissioning Writing EPC

RFID E2E (Process & Logistic automation)

Reading EPC automatically Writing in UDS test

information and firmware version

EPC commissioning Writing EPC (FGI), option

code and cartridge expiration date

Reading EPC to process validation

Building virtual EPC Pallet Creating XML file with

pallet information

RFID E2E (Process & Logistic automation)

Intermediary Portal:

– Moving the virtual pallet between stocks

– ERP updated on time

– Process validation

RFID E2E (Process & Logistic automation)

Factory general view and RFID points

Smart Factory Concept

RFID Pens (Process automation)

RFID Harsh Environments

Rejected Containers

Counter Clean

Container

TAG Commitioning Station

Container identification

Audit

Container validadion &

weighing

Cleaning Machine

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Outbound

EM Applications & Antennas Development

• First Brazilian UHF Tag (Antenna design) • Cartridge UHF Tag (Read/Write high

speed)

UHF Tag on metal was design for out side environment (Antenna & Tag design)

• Antennas development for reader with dual linear, circular and linear polarization

• UHF tags for any application

• Antennas design for heart monitor (GPS 1.5G, Penta band GSM-3G)

Accredited tests EPCglobal accreditation maintenance

Quality System Control

Certified Professionals on Comptia RFID +

Noise and Qualification Lab

Providing training for more than 120 companies • 26 classes of RFID Implementation • 09 classes of RFID Middleware • 07 classes of RFID ROI • 2 in company customized courses

• Institutional visits to the RFID Lab • University Lectures • Events Organization • Writing papers, articles and

publications

Book: Implementing RFID in the Business Chain

RFID for Future – Education

New trends & Vision

5

RFID Trends & Vision

RFID in Harsh Environments Item-Level Retail and Apparel Workshop IT Asset Tracking Workshop RFID for Warehouse and Inventory Management Security and Access Control Managing Medical Devices With RFID Embedded RFID Workshop NFC Workshop Visibility/Traceability Retail/Apparel Manufacturing Technology and Infrastructure Defense/Aviation Health Care/Pharmaceutical Supply Chain/Logistics RFID Deployment Strategies

Smart waste

FGI PRODUCT INBOUND LOGISTICS

WAREHOUSE OUTBOUND LOGISTICS

END USER TAKE BACK RECYCLING

MATERIAL ANALYSIS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

RFID

info

Product info

o Use of RFID as identification on the product end of life.

o Software Inteligence for material breakdown focused on product composition

o Printer composition caracterization

RFID Trends & Vision

UHF Brazilian Band

Notes

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Country Frequency Power Technique

USA (fcc) 902 - 928MHz 4WEIRP FHSS - 50 channels - 250kHz

902 - 907MHz

915 - 928MHz

China 920,5 - 924,5MHz 2WERP FHSS - 16 channels - 250kHz.

Japan 916,7 - 920,9MHz 4WEIRP LBT

952 - 956,4MHz 4WEIRP FHSS - 4 channels - 200kHz

952 - 956,4MHz 0,5WEIRP LBT

952 - 957,6MHz 20mWEIRP LBT

Europe 865.6 - 867.6MHz 2WERP ETSI 302 308 - 4 x 200kHz.

4WEIRP FHSS - 35 channels - 250kHzBrazil

Japan

(2018)

Conclusions

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Conclusions

• RFID will be adopted in almost everything in the future (IoT)

• RFID CoE will seamlessly implement RFID in supply chain at item Level

• Standarts will always be a must for development

• R&D focused on cost reduction and innovative applications

• Explore RFID as a system

• Explore RFID as part of security

• Change of today´s RFID band and modulation will have a huge impact in on going operations.

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Peter Drucker