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This year, the three finalist teams for the IEEE Educational Mega-Challenge: Smart Cities were given a wider remit in that they were not constrained to just using RAIN RFID technologies. Teams from Florida Institute of Technology, a combined team representing R & N Systems Design (from Christian Brothers University and the University of Memphis), and Washington University in St. Louis rose to the challenge and provided solutions that addressed farming, tool tracking, and RFID-enabled roadways respectively. Washington University in St. Louis won with their “Pathway to Smart Infrastructure: Hybrid RFID” solution after delivering a well-rehearsed presentation and surviving a rigorous cross-examination by a panel of ten industry judges.

Best Paper: M. Alhassoun, M. A. Varner and G. D. Durgin, “Design and evaluation of a multi-modulation retrodirective RFID tag,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID), Orlando, FL, 2018, pp. 1-8. doi: 10.1109/RFID.2018.8376197 Best Paper – Honorable Mention:  E. A. Keehr, “A low-cost software-defined UHF RFID reader with active transmit leakage cancellation,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID), Orlando, FL, 2018, pp. 1-8. doi: 10.1109/RFID.2018.8376193 Orlando, FL (April 2018) The IEEE Council on RFID (CRFID) announced today that Mohammad Alhassoun, Michael Varner and Gregory Durgin of Georgia Institute of Technology are the recipients of the Best Paper Award for the IEEE RFID 2018 technical conference co-located with RFID Journal Live! 2018. The