Distinguished Lecturers
IEEE September 20, 2017
Distinguished Lecturers, Lecturers (E-S)

Paul Frisch

Title: “The Impact of RFID / RTLS in Healthcare, Enhancing Patient Care and Optimizing Workflow and Business Processes” Paul Frisch, PhD, FHIMSS Associate Attending Department of Medical Physics Chief of Biomedical Engineering Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY, USA Abstract Over the last decade the changing healthcare environment has driven hospitals to critically evaluate and optimize their operations to enhance patient treatment and care, while focusing on financial constraints.   The hospitals have moved to support an increasing outpatient care environment, driving an increasing in-patient acuity levels. Increasingly important to optimizing hospital operations is the integration of real time locations systems (RTLS), providing unique identification, location, tracking, and association

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IEEE September 20, 2017
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Alessandra Costanzo

Title: Smart Beaming of RFID Reader for Data and Power Transfer Alessandra Costanzo, DEI- University of Bologna Italy Abstract: Nowadays there is an almost unlimited number of monitoring applications, such as structural health, logistic, security, healthcare and agriculture, which are planning to be based on a large deployment of co-operative wireless microsystems, with sensing capabilities, moving closer to the effective realization of the paradigm of the Internet of Things. The main open challenge of these scenarios will be discussed, being the reliability of maintenance-free devices, with life-time duration, especially from the energy sustainability point of view. Such systems are required to power themselves, by harvesting energy from the ambient, thus eliminating

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IEEE September 20, 2017
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Apostolos Georgiadis

Title: Wireless power transfer and energy harvesting for RFID Apostolos Georgiadis Associate Professor, Heriot-Watt University, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences Edinburgh, Scotland Abstract: RFID technology provides a foundation, an enabling technology towards the realization of ‘zero-power’ wireless sensors and implementing the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication.  Interest in RFID technology   is further enhanced by its fundamental capability for wireless powering of devices, allowing for batteryless operation. The presentation begins with an overview of energy considerations and challenges for low power system requirements in emerging applications such as health and smart homes, environmental monitoring, as well as an outlook of various energy harvesting technologi es. The state-of-the-art in commonly used

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IEEE September 20, 2017
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Greg Durgin

Title: “Wireless Forever: Engineering the Radios that Never Plug-in” Professor Greg Durgin The Propagation Group Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Abstract  This talk surveys the state-of-the art in RFID, energy-harvesting sensors, and devices for the Internet of Things. Everything you know about wireless communications will be challenged, as we discuss ultra-low energy RF devices, bizarre forms of modulation, “smart’’ antennas that do not require power, and undulating waveforms that extend the physical limits RF energy-harvesting. We present the engineering breakthroughs of today that will lead to real Sci-Fi applications of tomorrow: peel-and-stick radio sensors that last forever, mm-scale wireless location capability, and devices

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