RFID and Wine

1. RFID and Wine Alfio Grasso Deputy Director Auto-ID Lab, ADELAIDE

2. Agenda • Background on Auto-ID Lab • RFID • ZORK • RFID Enabled ZORK • Wine Industry Survey • Conclusions RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

3. Adelaide, Auto-ID Lab RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

4. The Auto-ID Laboratories RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

5. Auto-ID Labs • One of 7 Auto-ID Labs around the world • MIT, USA • Cambridge, UK • Adelaide, Australia • Keio, Japan • Fudan, China • St Gallen, Switzerland • ICU, Korea RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

6. Research Projects • The design of cost effective and small footprint tag antennas, suitable for attachment onto metal surfaces. • Interference studies in high density reader environments. • Electromagnetic propagation studies applicable to European Regulations • High security authentication tags • Dual frequency tags, ones that employ UHF techniques for supply chain applications and then HF for item management applications. • Passive RFID chip design (modules for implementation) • Analysis and measurement of new forms of reader to tag signalling RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

7. RFID RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

8. Anatomy of an RFID Solution • Solution Components: • Tag • Label • Printer • Reader • Antenna • Communications • Middleware • Enterprise Applications • Systems Integration • Network Infrastructure • Network Applications * Slide courtesy of RFID Business Association http://www.rfidba.org/ RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

9. What is RFID? • Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. • An RFID tag consists of…… • An Antenna, and • An Integrated Circuit RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

10. An RFID Chip (Integrated Circuit) RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

11. An RFID Tag Antenna • Enables the chip to receive and respond to radio-frequency queries from an RFID transceiver. RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

12. RFID Readers RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

13. Host CPU • Application • Do something with the tag information • Potential to generate massive amounts of data • Once installed it costs virtually NOTHING to read a tag! • Real time data => real time decisions • 0HIO (Zero Human Involvement Operations)* * Term defined by John Greaves, CHEP International RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

14. ZORK RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

15. RFID enabled ZORK RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

16. Wine Industry Survey RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

17. Wine Industry Survey • Final Year 2007 Project • Survey wine industry on possible benefits of RFID enabled ZORK • 19 Questions • Benefits • Authentication • Inventory • Supply Chain Visibility • Theft Reduction • Security of Supply Chain • History of individual bottle • ePedigree • Product Information • Tamper evidence • Rebate systems based on previous sales performance • Cross Promotional Opportunities • Verification of Organically Grown Produce • Variable pricing • Impending use by dates • Developed an application to demonstrate the benefits RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

18. Survey Diversity RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

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21. Most Beneficial Advantage RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

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23. Conclusions

24. Conclusions • RFID has low to moderate technical risk • Auto-ID Lab commercial success in RFID developments • RFID enabled ZORK ready for commercial development • Applications developed showing some of the benefits of RFID enabled ZORK RFID and Wine Wine 2030 29th Sept 2008

25. Thank you & QuestionsAlf Grassoalf@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au(08) 8303 64730402 037 968