Posted by Patrick Sweeney on Mon, Sep 06, 2010
RFID Lesson: RFID Reader Modules
Posted by Patrick Sweeney on Sat, Mar 13, 2010
This past month's Journal of Computer Science and Information Security had an interesting article on using an algorithm that converts Sanskrit prose into poetry automatically following the metical rules of Sanskrit prosody (which is no easy task considering the euphonic conjunctions area real bear). So what does this have to do with RFID?
In a month ODIN will once again have the honor of awarding the IEEE award for best research paper in RFID. We're doing this at RFID Journal Live! in Orlando. ODIN has sponsored the IEEE RFID Award for three years and has not done it for press (most people have never heard of it) nor do we do it for product development (the Sanskrit idea says it all there). We do it for the same reason I wrote RFID for Dummies - to drive the industry forward.
The young men and women who are applying for the IEEE award are the ones that two, three, five years from now will deliver the true breakthroughs in RFID. The technology which will take us a quantum leap forward. Right now they may be figuring out how to use an RFID tag to measure the molecular density of a Peanut Buster Parfait, or trying to make a bicycle's bottom bracket generate UHF energy - and we applaud them for this creative thinking. However the real value comes in the "unknown unknowns" they discover as they chase after some strange idea like converting Sanskrit.
Through that level of creative R&D and freedom to invent tomorrow's massive breakthroughs will come. As always ODIN supports the world's best RFID engineers through our sponsorship of IEEE and we look forward to seeing what's in store for this year's winners. Please join us in Orlando for the award of the paper of the year, and let each one of these engineers know your proud of them for making a difference in our industry.