September 2009 – Airetrak present at the IDTechX RFID Conference

September 2009 – Airetrak present at the IDTechX RFID Conference

As RFID moves on, so does Europe’s most respected RFID event. The hot topics in RFID for 2009 include Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS), now in hundreds of locations and growing fast. Assets and people in hospitals are the latest major application and many different RTLS technologies are now competing.

Then there are Wireless Sensor Networks, otherwise known as Third Generation active RFID. These wireless mesh networks mimic the internet, being the first forms of RFID that are self organising and self healing. Hundreds of companies are now involved and the first killer application is under way – meter reading.

Airetrak presented twice at the conference. In the Masterclass on 28th September it presented the pros and cons of many of the RTLS location tracking technologies such as Wi-Fi, Ultrasound, InfraRed and UWB. In the RTLS Stream on 29th September, we talked through how ResourceView RTLS application could be used with many of these location technologies, in conjunction with Wi-Fi RFID, ultrasound and InfraRed tags and location engines