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Ted Williams Award Named in honor of Ted Williams, an industry innovator, collaborator, and long-time member of the AIM Global Technical Symbology Committee, this award, created in 2007, is presented annually to a professor or student in recognition of innovative and exceptional contributions to the development of the Automatic Identification and Mobility industry that can further the growth of the industry through their work as a teacher, researcher or entrepreneur.  This year’s recipient is Dr. Pui Yi Lau (Anna), CTO and CEO of Laxcen Technology Inc/Laxcen Technology Pte Ltd. She is an expert on hybrid EM/RAIN RFID systems and antenna designs and holds a number of international/regional patents. Aside from her

Call for Nominations for IEEE Council on RFID Officer Positions (2022-2023). We are looking for the best people from a variety of backgrounds, with a strong desire, enthusiasm and willingness to serve the Council. We particularly encourage the suggestion of candidates who have previously served in roles that support publications, conferences, or membership and chapter activities.  As in previous years, we strive to balance the representation of elected members with regards to demographics and diversity. Diversity is important and please keep this in mind in terms of geography, gender, industry/Govt/academia, experience, young professionals, etc.   Nominations for the following officer positions are now open: President Elect VP Conferences VP Member Services

IEEE WPT Student Design Competition in the framework of WPW2022 which will be held in Bordeaux (France) on July 4-9, 2022 it is now opened the call for proposal for a student design competition. Please engage your students to team up and participate to this competition, we are still open to receive expression of interest. Purpose To encourage young generations to join the research and development of WPT (Wireless Power Transfer) technologies. To demonstrate the WPT capabilities for promoting public acceptance and practical applications of WPT systems. Participants Teams can include undergraduate and/or postgraduate students. High school students may also join in special cases. Staff members can only serve as advisors. Procedure

The digital twins (DT) and parallel intelligence recently play a central technological role in the emerging global scientific and research communities on intelligent systems. Taking place in Beijing, China, DTPI 2021 aims to bring together academic scholars and industrial practitioners to share in scientific and technological advances as well as to gain a deeper understanding of the digital twins generating real-virtual system interactions and resulting in parallel intelligence. DTPI’s particular topics also include various vertical applications of DTPI, including industrial Internet, transportation, energy, robotics, manufacturing, healthcare, etc. The conference program, scheduled from July 15 through August 15 in 2021, will showcase the state-of-the-art of the theoretical development and application practice

IEEE CRFID is proud to announce its role as technical media sponsor for the hybrid SpliTech 2021 conference (https://2021.splitech.org) in Croatia, 8-11 September 2021.  Select video content from the conference will be curated on the IEEE CRFID resource center and a special issue of IEEE JRFID will be offered for expanded works presented at the conference.  Check out their special workshop on RFID (https://2021.splitech.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/flyer1-1.pdf).   We look forward to continuing this valuable partnership with a conference working in the mutual areas of interest such as RFID, Smart Cities, e-Health, and IoT.

Fei-Yue Wang Professor IEEE CRFID Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences General Information Proposed Date: July 15, 2021 – August 15, 2021 (Distributed Hybrid Conference, Physical Opening Ceremony on July 15) Location: Beijing, China Expected: 500 attendees (online), 50 attendees (offline) Support: Sponsor: IEEE Council on RFID Co-Sponsors: Chinese Association of Automation, Qingdao Academy of Intelligent Industries, Intelligent Vehicles Proving Center of China Conference Agenda: 1-Day Physical Conference, 4 Keynote (Invited Speakers), on July 15 4 Online Sessions, 6 Oral Presentations for each session, 1 for each week 1 Poster Sessions, 100 online posters, lasting for 1 month After the conference, the presentation and poster videos will be saved

The IEEE Council on RFID (CRFID) Nominations Committee requests nominations for qualified individuals to fill the CRFID VP for Finances position for the 2021-2022 term (renewable once). Self-nominations are allowed.  For more information on eligibility and duties, please refer to Article III, Section 8, and Article VI of the CRFID Bylaws. To submit your nomination (of self-nomination) please fill the following form

Conference Awards and Finalists: Best Paper Award: “Particle Filter-Based SAR Approach and Trajectory Optimization for Real-Time 3D UHF-RFID Tag Localization”, M. Gareis and P. Fenske (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany), C. Carlowitz (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), M. Vossiek (LHFT, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany). Best Paper Award Finalists: “5 mm Range 61 GHz System on Chip EPC Gen2 RFID Tag in 22nm FD-SOI Technology”, A. Harutyunyan, M. Landwehr, R. Fiedler, A. Heinig, R. Hildebrandt, H. Holland (Fraunhofer Institute IPMS, Germany). “Particle Filter-Based SAR Approach and Trajectory Optimization for Real-Time 3D UHF-RFID Tag Localization”, M. Gareis and P. Fenske (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany), C. Carlowitz (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), M. Vossiek (LHFT, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany). “Backscatter

2020 |AIM, the trusted worldwide industry association for the automatic identification industry, providing unbiased information, educational resources and standards for nearly half a century, has announced the group of recipients for the 2020 AIM Awards, which honor excellence and outstanding achievement in the automatic identification and data capture industry. Raymond Delnick of GS1 US was selected as recipient of the Richard Dilling Award. Mark Wheeler of Zebra Technologies was selected as recipient of the Allan Gilligan Award.  The award is given to a member of the industry who has made outstanding contributions to the development of automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) applications in materials handling and logistics in the supply