Lecturers (A-D)

From RFID to Cyber-Physical Systems: Reality, Dreams, and Fantasy Magdy Bayoumi Z.L. Loflin Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair Professor at The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette) Lafayette, Louisiana, USA Abstract The integration of physical systems with networked sensing, computation networks, and embedded control with actuation has led to the emergence of a new generation of engineered systems, the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Such systems emphasize the link between cyber space and physical environment (i.e., time, space, and energy). CPS represents the next generation of complex engineering systems. They are large scale dynamic systems that offer significant processing power while interacting across communication networks. RFID was

L. Richard Carley Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Talk 1:  The Design of Integrated Antennas for Efficient Energy Harvesting in Single-Chip RFID Systems The design of fully integrated RFIDs, ones in which the antenna and the RFID circuitry are all fabricated on the same integrated circuit substrate, is challenging because the small size of the antenna and its proximity to a resistive ground plane (the integrated circuit substrate) both decrease the RF energy that can be harvested to operate the RFID system.  In this presentation, we will apply simplifying approximations in order to develop basic equations relating the size and geometry of the antenna

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

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