RFID SIG
Tuesday, March 25th 2008, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
WCA LBS SIG & WCA RFID SIG presents: Where's The Stuff? And What's It Doing? Locating And Managing Assets
Venue: Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto CA
Vehicles, cash, equipment and much more can be tracked. Temperatures of ice cream, beer and other precious materials in transit, fluid levels in engines and medicinal dosing can be measured and evaluated for action such as change or replenishment. Wireless technologies including RFID, WiFi and GPS enable these fantastic location-based services. Please join us March 25 to hear from some of the leaders in the asset tracking and management space as they share their views of the current and future in "tracking and managing our stuff"
-- Joshua Slobin, Director of Marketing, Aeroscout
-- Peter Sidwell, VP of Sales, Trenstar
-- Richard Fuller PhD, Senior Vice President, Geotrax
-- Moderator: Beth Kahn, VP of Operations, E-Band Communications
Cost: $10 at the door
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Tuesday, April 8th 2008, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
WCA RFID SIG presents: How Do I Get EPCglobal Hardware and Software Certification?
Venue: Duel Systems, San Jose CA
EPCglobal has selected MET Laboratories to develop and manage EPCglobal's RFID hardware and software certification programs. Rob Holt will discuss what has been discovered in conducting RFID certification, best practices in preparation for EPCglobal certification, and a serious issue for RFID sensors: intrinsic safety for hazardous environments.
-- Rob Holt, MET Laboratories, Inc.
Cost: $10 at the door
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Recent WCA RFID SIG Events
February 2007 : RFID SIG
Physically Securing RFID Systems
-- Mike Gaskill, Senior Director of Sales, MIKOH Corporation Ltd. - presentation
December 2007 : RFID SIG
Extended Capability RFID: The Advantages of Battery-Assisted Passive RFID
-- Sam Liu, Director of Marketing, Intelleflex - presentation
November 2007 : RFID SIG
Complex Event Processing (CEP) Technology: Handling the RFID Avalanche
-- Mark Tsimelzon, Founder, President and CTO, Coral8 -- Mark Tsimelzon, Founder, President and CTO, Coral8 - presentation
October 2007 : RFID SIG
Roles, Responsibilities, and Realities of the Coming Roll-out of Near Field Communication (NFC)
-- Hans Reisgies, Business Development, ViVOtech
September 2007 : RFID SIG (in partnership w/ the LBS SIG)
Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS) and Yard Management - Increasing the Visibility
WCA SIG Newsletter : Naomi Morita reports on the September RFID + LBS SIG event - newsletter
-- Aleks Gollu, Founder & CEO, PINC Solutions - presentation
August 2007 : RFID SIG
RFID and Label Converters: Uh Oh!
-- Tim Hirabayashi, Director of RFID Applications, Cellotape - presentation
July 2007 : RFID SIG
Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) : Wi-Fi or Proprietary Active RFID?
-- Hitesh Kalra, Chief Technology Officer & Founder, SenseIQ - presentation
June 2007 : General Session + RFID SIG
If Not Wal-Mart, Who? (Panel session)
-- Brian Hajime Ogata, Chair, WCA RFID SIG (moderator) - presentation
-- Karen Saunders, City Librarian, Santa Clara City Library - presentation
-- Mike Gaskill, Director, Hardware System Sales, Venture Research, Inc.
-- Tim Short, Senior Director, Sales and Business Development, InSync Software - presentation
-- Richard Swan Ph.D., CTO & Co-founder, T3Ci - presentation
Event Archives
Go to the WCA Archives to review other RFID SIG events and presentations, or http://www.wca.org/backup/RFID_experts.htm to access the old archive pages.
About the WCA RFID SIG
The RFID Special Interest Group promotes business connections and alliances between its members within the RFID industry.
RFID SIG Mailing list
E-mail announcements are sent to those on the RFID SIG mailing list. To get on the distribution list, you must first attend an event and request addition to the list.
Comments, Questions, Kudos, Complaints
Brian Ogata is the Chair of the RFID SIG. He invites your suggestions, contributions and questions. Brian can be reached at: rfidsig@wca.org

