Distinguished Lecturers

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 …