 RFID Now! & RFID At Work! (RFID-202) is an intensive two-day course for professionals engaged in RFID. RFID Now! focuses on RFID initiatives and is designed to provide a thorough and up-to-date understanding of today’s RFID landscape. RFID at Work! equips students for successfully initiating the analysis, design and implementation of a RFID solution.Taught by Alien RFID Academy subject matter experts with extensive field experience in leading-edge RFID implementations, RFID Now! & RFID At Work! leads students through the science, standards, break-through technologies and best practices behind successful, enterprise-class RFID solutions and provides hands-on guidance for leveraging RFID in the real world.RFID Now! utilizes a combination of interactive class room discussion, team challenges, and real-life scenarios and case-studies to equip students for outlining solutions, selecting technology and implementation partners, and sourcing equipment. Particular emphasis is placed on:- Recent compliance initiatives and how your business can best respond.
- The new capabilities presented by the Gen2 protocol, and the speed, flexibility and adaptability it brings to RFID.
Combining dynamic classroom dialog, worldclass subject matter expertise, and the use of the Alien RFID Solution Center’s simulated warehouse, manufacturing and retail environments, RFID At Work! places particular emphasis on:- The best analysis, design and implementation practices from the first wave of RFID adopters.
- The importance of troubleshooting to a successful RFID initiative, including learning how to use proven tools and techniques for verifying success.
| RFID Now! Takeaways and Topics | | | Takeaways: | Topics: | - How to make the components of a RFID solution work together to your business’s best advantage
- The impact of standards and regulations on performance and global deployments
- Optimum tag, antenna and reader types for RFID implementation
- How to ensure optimal tag placement and maximum read rates under a variety of conditions
- Major compliance guidelines and what they mean to your business
- How to leverage key characteristics of the Gen2 protocol
| - The state-of-the-art in readers, antennas and tags
- Current global standards and regulations
- EPC protocols
- RFID deployment options:
- Systems and network topologies
- Tag type capabilities and benefits
- Tagging pallets, cases and items
- Tag and product interactions
- Antenna types and field profiles
- Compliance requirements
- Implementation process and blueprint
| | RFID at Work! Takeaways and Topics | | | Takeaways: | Topics: | - Considerations and variables in a typical system deployment
- Effect of various materials on product tagging
- Utilizing challenging material properties to enhance read performance
- Successfully tagging products containing liquids and metals
- Working with difficult item, case and pallet configurations
- Implementing with existing conveyor lines
- Techniques for ensuring the best possible RFID solution
- Sources for further help and guidance
| - Typical RF antenna field profiles for linear and circular polarized antennas
- System configuration considerations when implementing RFID on conveyors, turn-tables and portals
- Potential environmental interference sources
- Solidifying tag/antenna coupling by viewing backscatter tag responses on an oscilloscope
- In-depth tag optimization exercises considering product content, use-case, cross-functional restrictions and typical tag commissioning techniques
- Effect of in/out-of-phase reflections, attenuation, absorption and wave guides
- Reader options to reduce interface complexity and hardware expenses as well as dramatically improve system performance
| Instructors
Alien RFID Academy courses are taught by teams of experienced RFID Application experts, who have helped define and lead some of the industry’s most successful deployments. Actively on the forefront of RFID in the field, these instructors focus on delivering an intensive, hands-on educational experience addressing the real-life issues and challenges in implementing RFID.Who should attend?
Alien RFID Academy courses are designed for technical management and staff responsible for RFID strategy or implementation, including:Application Architects & EngineersConvertersDistributors/VARsEnd-usersHardware/Software EngineersManagement ProfessionalsPrerequisites
No prerequisites for this course.What to bring?
Courses are designed to utilize real world scenarios and experiences. Please bring questions and challenges which may be shared.Registration
Registration is limited and is on a first come first serve basis. Early registration is recommended to secure your enrollment. Alien RFID Academy Guarantee
If you complete this course and believe that you are not prepared to initiate an RFID effort, you can repeat the course within a period of one year, at no cost to you. You will only need to pay for the costs associated with travel if applicable.About Alien
Alien Technology provides UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products and services to customers in retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, defense, transportation and logistics, pharmaceuticals and other industries. Organizations use Alien's RFID products and services to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and security of their supply chains, logistics and asset tracking operations. Alien's products include RFID tags, RFID readers and related training and professional services. Alien's patented Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA) technology and related proprietary manufacturing processes are designed to enable the manufacture of high volume, low cost RFID tags. Alien was founded in l994 and employees about 235 people worldwide. The company's facilities include: its corporate headquarters in Morgan Hill, CA; an RFID tag manufacturing facility in Fargo, ND; the Alien RFID Solutions Center, in the Dayton, Ohio area, and sales offices in the US, Europe and Asia. Alien is a member of EPCGlobal. |
