Title: Convention of the Future Reference Project: Auto-ID Center at MIT TRAFFIC CONTROL FOR THE CONVENTION FLOOR Professor Sanjay Sarma, MIT
1Convention of the Future Reference Project
Auto-ID Center at MITTRAFFIC CONTROL FOR THE
CONVENTION FLOOR Professor Sanjay Sarma, MIT
2Discussion
- Auto-ID Center/RFID background
- Benefits of RFID
- How the system works
- Auto-ID as reference for the Convention of the
Future
3Auto-ID Center
- Established October 1, 1999
- Research
- Development
- Standards
- Sponsors include
- UCC, PG, Gillette, Sun, Phillip Morris, NCR,
Invensis, Savi - Staffing
- 3 Faculty 4 associate professors 20
staff/students - Links throughout MIT
- Satellite centers in Europe, Asia
4Auto-ID The RFID System
Allowing people, things and systems to
communicate, improving communications and
management and minimizing investment and error
5System Basics
- Tag every-day objects for anytime/any place a
retrieval - Store unique IDs on RFID tags
- Auto read/write information for access from
networked Web sites - Track people or objects for any application
6Benefits
- Industry X
- Supply chain automation
- Smart devices
- Robotics
- Convention Industry
- Attendee registrant tracking for relationship
extension and personalization - Drayage automation reduce setup/strike error and
costs increase productivity
7Innovation
- Attendees
- Registration management attendee tracking
- Location-based services personalization
- Exhibitors/Show Management
- Contact/work-order tracking management
- Asset tracking
- Transportation management
- Contractors
- Location-based staff management
- Drayage management asset tracking
- Loss-management
8Auto-ID Center Reference for Convention of the
Future Consortium
- PROPOSAL
- Consortium Players
- Industry, technology company and academic Leaders
- Investment
- 50k to 300k annually
- Benefits
- Head start research and strategic/business plans
- Schedule
- Quantum of development 24-month development
cycles
Whats being done at the Auto-ID Center is
unprecedented. Never before in history has
industry teamed with academia to build
the technology companies want and need. -Joy
Nicholas, VP, Research Emerging Technologies,
Food Marketing Institute
9Thank you