RFID Education: RFID Technology Lecture Series Explores Revolution in Business and ...

From Business Wire (press release), CA ... Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is revolutionizing the world of inventory and data storage around the globe. ...

Merrimack College sponsors advanced lecture series on RFID technology with exciting roster of presenters ...

... A complimentary three-part lecture series on RFID and its future implications, featuring internationally renowned guest speakers, will be held at Merrimack College. The series will focus on: -- where RFID technology began -- what industries can benefit from RFID, and -- how the technology will modify identification and data collection in the future. ...

Dr. Sanjay Sarma will discuss RFID as a larger class of technology and focus on RFID tags in terms of wireless sensing and the business and economic benefit of those tags. He will also describe the Auto-ID Center (Dr. Sarma is a co-founder of the Center) and address the research MIT and other universities did to bring RFID to reality.

Radianse, Inc., of Lawrence, Mass., provides an active-RFID technology that incorporates an indoor positioning system (IPS) for healthcare to reduce asset shrinkage and labor costs and improve utilization, patient flow-times and overall workflow efficiency. A Radianse IPS combines long-range active-RFID with a patent-pending location algorithm for accurate, continuous location and association of people, places and things. The IPS solution is in use at Mass. General Hospital, Brigham & Women's Hospital, the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania, and several other hospitals.