Distinguished Lecturers

Title: “The Impact of RFID / RTLS in Healthcare, Enhancing Patient Care and Optimizing Workflow and Business Processes” Paul Frisch, PhD, FHIMSS Associate Attending Department of Medical Physics Chief of Biomedical Engineering Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY, USA Abstract Over the last decade the changing healthcare environment …

Title: Smart Beaming of RFID Reader for Data and Power Transfer Alessandra Costanzo, DEI- University of Bologna Italy Abstract: Nowadays there is an almost unlimited number of monitoring applications, such as structural health, logistic, security, healthcare and agriculture, which are planning to be based on a large deployment of co-operative wireless …

Title: Wireless power transfer and energy harvesting for RFID Apostolos Georgiadis Associate Professor, Heriot-Watt University, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences Edinburgh, Scotland Abstract: RFID technology provides a foundation, an enabling technology towards the realization of ‘zero-power’ wireless sensors and implementing the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication.  Interest in RFID …

Title: “Wireless Forever: Engineering the Radios that Never Plug-in” Professor Greg Durgin The Propagation Group Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Abstract  This talk surveys the state-of-the art in RFID, energy-harvesting sensors, and devices for the Internet of Things. Everything you know about wireless …