Title: Security and Privacy in an Internet of Things World Dr. Daniel W. Engels Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Dept., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA Abstract: The Internet of Things already surrounds us and is making our lives better in both small and large ways. Toll tags, smart …

L. Richard Carley Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Talk 1:  The Design of Integrated Antennas for Efficient Energy Harvesting in Single-Chip RFID Systems The design of fully integrated RFIDs, ones in which the antenna and the RFID circuitry are all fabricated on the same …

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 …