2. Why RFID ?
Increased accuracy of data
Improved security
Opportunity to reduce capital expenditures
Reduction in cost over present collection method
Increased asset utilization
Unobtrusive form of data collection
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3. What is the technology?
Network
Infrastructure
RFID Middleware
Handheld SW
Business
Applications
4 4 Passive Fixed
4 4
Edge Hardware
Server Hardware
Active System Network
+
Reader Edge Business
Tags Antennae Infrastructure Systems
Devices
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4. Customers
• New Haven Board of Education
• Kingsborough Community College
• La Guardia Community College
• Standard Bank of South Africa
• Saint Joseph Hospital
• Hartford Medical Group
• Salem Hospital
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• National Institute of Health
• Agilent Technologies
• Department of Homeland Security
• New Haven – Emergency Operations Center
• All Island Dermatology
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6. Active RFID
Deployment
Web Reports
Active Fixed
Reader
Location A – Fix /
Choke Point LAN/ WAN
Location B - Fix + /Internet
Mobile Asset Manager
RFID
Bluetooth Reader
Wireless
Device
Enterprise
Active Fixed
Asset
Reader
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7. Passive RFID
Fixed Asset Portal
Tracking Antenna
Audit /
Compliance
RFID Handheld w/
How to improve quarterly SW Web Reports
inventories for audit and WiFi
compliance
Internet /
RFID Passive Solution via Intranet
hosted environment.
Server Hosting
R.O.I
Reduced the time to
Portal
perform inventories from Antenna
one week to 1 hour.
Brought division into Asset DB
compliance.
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8. Consignment Inventory
How to manage medical inventory in consignment at large
customer locations, without making customer invest in additional
infrastructure.
RFID Passive solution
Custom antenna design to integrate into current refrigerators
Application running at the reader level and communicating with home
via an SSL connection
R.O.I.
Increased invoicing turn over from once a month to once a week
Reduced inventory discrepancies and damaged goods.
Increased customer usage of certain products by pro-actively monitoring
their usage and informing them.
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9. Active RFID
People Tracking
How to monitor technicians
moving through buildings
R.O.I
Increased visibility to
optimize work effort by
knowing location Hosted or Premise Based Solution
In Patient Centers
Automatic time
keeping system used to
monitor patient care
delivery and waiting time
Active Fixed Reader
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11. Use Cases
• Securing of key documents
– Alert if a key file folder or document is removed from the given
area.
• It shows the person, time of the event and the document information
• Asset Tracking
– Alert if key asset is removed from a protected area.
• Branch Environmental & Asset Monitoring
– Alerts a given event, providing video of before the event and
after the event.
• Environmental event could be; movement, fluid,
temperature/humidity changes, doors opened/closed, Dry Contact-
Electrical equipment on/off, etc.
– Alert if key asset is removed from a protected area.
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12. The Solution
• Unique combination of RFID, sensors, and
video technology informs of illicit item and
information access as it happens, not after
the asset is removed.
• System alerts (via email, sms) while activity is
happening, creates forensically admissible
video record of the event.
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13. The technology
• Works with
– RFID
• Active, Passive and Semi-Passive Technology
– Wireless Sensors
• Leverages current IP Video cameras.
• Leverages OnSSi video platform.
– Additional ones in development
• Additional tie in:
– Developing the incorporation of Access Control
Systems
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14. The Alert Process
• RFID Readers listen for an event.
• The event is interpreted and based on the business
rules and its severity it request video from the
application
• The application provides a link with the complete video
of the event (30-90 seconds before and after the event)
• Application (based on previous defined rules) send
email or sms alerts to the proper personnel with a
video link.
• Video is stored with the RFID event / activity history for
review, etc.
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15. The Benefits
• By using RFID and Wireless Sensors, you gain
freedom of placement and it can be movable.
• It is rule based that can be changed based on
an asset, location, user, event, etc.
• It alerts security to the event as it occurs,
while providing information about the asset
and video summary of the activity.
• It leverages current infrastructure to lower
deployment cost
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