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8 October 2020 — Interactive Sessions! This workshop will host researchers and engineers interested in the emerging technologies and applications for wireless motion capture and fine-scale wireless localization. Workshop presentations will explore technical issues relevant to new wireless motion capture, fine-scale localization, gesture recognition, tomography, and related technologies. Invited Workshop Speakers Prof. Antonis DimitriouAristotle U. ofThessaloniki3D RFID localizationwith robots Prof. Matt ReynoldsU. of WashingtonThruWave Incmm-wave imaging James StratigosCognosis LLClow-power, wide-areatag location Prof. Edwin KanCornell U.passive, ultra-preciselocalization Prof. William KiheiKennesaw State U.identifying vehiclesin V2X networks Prof. ArjunaMadanayakeFlorida Int. U.UAV Doppler ID Dr. Jet ZhuPolaris Wirelesscommercial handsetlocalization Prof. Reza ZekavatWPIlocalization in body& complex media Andrea MotroniU. of Pisarobot localizationwith RFID Ryan BahrGeorgia TechLuneberg lens forpoint localization

5 October 2020 This workshop hosts researchers and industry leaders discussing the emerging technologies and applications for Gen3 RFID and beyond. Email submissions to Prof. Mohammad Alhassoun (malhassoun@kfupm.edu.sa). Click on the call for participation below:

CRFID, the IEEE council on RFID, was recognized and awarded for Outstanding participation in the RFID Journal Live Conference awards ceremony on April 4, 2019. Fei-You,  incoming president for the Council on RFID was present to receive this prestigious award. This represents the 13th annual conference on RFID prepared and presented by IEEE and the Council on RFID presented during the RFID Journal Live conference. Papers and proceedings will be available online on the IEEE website.

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