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B. A. WELT, Dept. of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Univ. of Florida, 111 Frazier Rogers Hall, PO Box 110570, Gainesville, FL 32611-0570 The Packaging Science laboratory/pilot-plant at the University of Florida is one of the most well equipped radio frequency identification (RFID) research facilities in the country. In conjunction with corporate partners, the laboratory's efforts are focused on three key areas including (1) development of industry specific RFID best practices, (2) researching and developing novel RFID/auto-identification applications, and (3) specifying and designing new auto-identification/RFID hardware and software. Results from a variety of recent projects will be presented. Typical RFID performance evaluation data for cases and pallets of fresh lettuce products will be used to illustrate types of experiments required to developing product specific best practices guidelines. Trials to evaluate parameters such as product mass, velocity, as well as environmental temperature and humidity will be presented. Additionally, results from evaluations using new temperature sensing RFID tags will be presented. Credit-card sized, battery powered, RFID tags with temperature logging capability were evaluated for durability, operating limitations, shelf-life, consistency, accuracy and thermal lag. Results from experiments involving hot-wrapped, take-out sandwiches will be presented along with sensor calibration performance and results. Finally, novel applications and business processes developed by UF's Packaging Science laboratory will be presented. UF's Case-2-Pallet™ RFID tag data aggregation system will be presented. UF's GatorPacker™ RFID and barcode based worker productivity monitoring prototype will be discussed. Finally, UF's GatorBytes™ RFID based product authenticity verification system will be discussed.
Session 15, The dawn of RFID: What have we learned and where we are going?
2005 IFT Annual Meeting, July 15-20 - New Orleans, Louisiana |