Understanding RFID Communication Technologies

Understanding RFID Spectrum Choices and Availability

Understanding RFID Network, System, Tag & Reader Standards

Understanding RFID Network, Tag & Reader Technologies

Understanding RFID Applications, Requirements & Industry Segments

RFID Market and Competitive Analysis

• Overview & description
• Encoding, decoding and modulating techniques, functions and implementations
  • Basic principles and applications
  • Similarities, differences and interrelationships
  • Air interfaces
  • Communications protocols
  • Advantages & disadvantages
• Evaluating the use of radio communications technologies in networks, systems, tags & readers
  • Data communications
• Assessment of key marketplace and competitive advantages & disadvantages

• Spectrum management overview
• Overview and analysis of key regulatory organizations
  • Major activities, responsibilities, objectives and authorities
    • Allocation and licensing processes
  • Assessing role of other key players/influencers
• Identifying and analyzing service band plans & allocations (current & planned)
  • Specifications
  • Rules and regulations
    • Emission and modulation rules
  • Planned and anticipated changes
  • Benefits & limitations
    • Key applications
    • Relation to relevant standards
• Analysis of new technologies for improving spectrum use and expand availability
  • Software Defined Radio
    • Overview
    • Technology
    • Benefits and limitations
    • Status
• Analysis of new regulatory and management mechanisms for improving spectrum use and expanding availability

• Overview and analysis of:
  • Network Standards
    • Key components
  • Hardware Standards:
    • Tag/transponder
      • Key components
    • Reader/Transceiver
      • Key components
• Review of managing and developing standards organizations
  • Major activities, responsibilities and objectives
  • Role and status
  • Key members
  • Other key players & influencers
  • Government, non-government and industry activities and relationships
• Analysis of key standard specifications, features, functions, characteristics, capabilities and interrelationships
  • Similarities, differences and interrelationships of relevant standards
  • Planned and anticipated changes/upgrades/improvements
  • Relation to spectrum band plans & allocations
• Evaluating implementation in networks, tags & readers
  • Key marketplace and competitive advantages & disadvantages
  • Market status: deployment and implementation
  • Gen. 1, Gen. 2 and Gen. 3 coexistence issues

• Network, Tag & Reader functional and operational overview
  • Classifications & categories
  • Examination of major technologies, features, functions, characteristics & capabilities
  • Layers
    • Application Layer
    • API Layer
    • Config/Data Layer
    • Network Layer
    • Physical Layer
• Network Architectures and Connectivity
  • Wireless & Wired
    • Wireless LANs
    • Wi-Fi
    • WiMAX
    • IP network
  • Enterprise
  • Public
  • Private
  • Traffic implications and management
  • Application-specific, web service, or middleware protocols
• Hardware Analysis
  • Examination of tag and reader features, functions, characteristics, capabilities and interrelationships
    • Communication and activation technology
    • Antenna
    • Memory
    • Operating frequency
    • Cost
    • Reliability
    • Information access/response rate
    • Data transfer rate
    • Accuracy
    • Anti-collision
    • Security & Privacy of information
    • Size & weight
    • Temperature & humidity
    • Lifetime/MTBF
• Performance Analysis
  • Assessing performance, competitive and marketplace advantages & disadvantages
  • Limitations of accuracy, speed and reliability
  • Effects of frequency, power, link budget, distance/range, interference, environment, temperature, humidity, objects on:
    • Reliability
    • Accuracy
    • Cost
    • Data rates
    • Read/write distance
  • Interference and Obstruction Analysis: Causes & Solutions
    • Radio
      • Other tags, readers & systems
      • Other ISM devices
      • Non-ISM devices/electrical noise
    • Physical & Environmental
      • Objects/Obstructions
      • Metals & Liquids
    • Interference management solutions
• Review of planned and anticipated changes/upgrades/improvements
  • Gen. 1, Gen. 2 and Gen. 3 transition
    • Issues and hurdles

• Overview & descriptions of key customer segments, requirements and applications
• Examining the similarities, differences and interrelationships of major services/applications
• Review of planned and anticipated changes/upgrades/improvements

• Overview of the RFID Industry
  • RFID Industry Market Dynamics
  • The RFID Industry Value Chain
  • Key RFID Industry Market Segments
• Key RFID Industry Metrics
  • RFID Industry Revenue & Unit Shipment Forecasts
    • Tags/Transponders
      • Growth
      • Revenue & Unit Shipments
    • Readers/Transceivers
      • Growth
      • Revenue & Unit Shipment
  • Hurdles to acceptance and growth
• Evaluation of Key Vendors, Developers and Manufacturers of RFID Systems, Software, and Hardware
  • History
  • Business, Technology, Marketing, Customer, and Service Issues & Hurdles
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Market and Competitive Responses
  • Recent Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestments Analysis
  • Revenue, profit and market shares
• The Future
  • The Internet of Things
  • Product Internet/Thing to Thing (T2T)
  • Universal readers/transceivers

To find out more about having Alexander Resources conduct this seminar at a time and place convenient to your organization call Jeff Stone at: 972-818-8225 or e-mail: JStone@AlexanderResources.com