Empowering Smarter Fitting Rooms with RFID Data Analytics

Pushing the limits of RFID: Empowering RFID-based Electronic Article Surveillance with Data Analytics Techniques

False-positive classification is a central issue for RFID environments with limited process control, such as in-store settings. In the case of electronic article surveillance, false positives not only lead to incorrect inventory data but also trigger false alarms, which impair customer satisfaction. A typical counter measure is to reduce antenna power, which in turn leads to greatly diminished ...

Building A Smarter Planet With University Collaboration: Empowering People Through Information Integration

The Smarter Planet: Built on Informatics and Cybernetics

IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative is a multi-disciplined approach that integrates the key tenets of the IMSCI 2014 (The 8 International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics, and Informatics) conference [1]. Industry has seen a tremendous explosion of data growth. Organizations that dealt with Terabytes (TB) and Petabytes (PB) just a couple of years ago are now faced with the challenge of deal...

RFID Enabled Visualisation of Product Flows: A Data Analytics Approach

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an information facilitator that can directly improve decision‐ making; thus many retailers and suppliers have adopted it. A vast amount of RFID data streams has been gathered, however, it remains unutilized, or it is been exploited solely for inventory count purposes. This research proposes a way to analyze the immense volume of RFID data reflecting the ...

RFID-based Solutions for Smarter Healthcare

This paper proposes the application of RFID technology in healthcare industry based on its increased functionality, high reliability, easy-to-use capabilities and low cost. After a brief presentation of RFID technologies and their applications, the paper describes an RFID-based system that can provide efficient facilities to allow essential information management for emergency care across hospi...