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Overview: Reports on latest
developments in RFID infrastructure and middleware. Also includes perspectives
on the spectrum of RFID radio types and the latest issues in security,
authentication, privacy and trust. Updates our latest client activities
and events in which we will be participating throughout 2005.
Overview: On November 10, 2004, Chris Meisl
presented a session at the RFID Developers Conference in San Mateo, CA. The
session, titled "Security, Authentication, Privacy and Trust" covered the
technology and policy issues required for providing secure RFID implementation
without compromising personal privacy.
Overview: Update of Big Chief Partners
recent activities, and a summary of recent RFID conferences that we helped
put together: RFID Developer's
Conference in San Mateo, the
Global Supply Chain
RFID/GTIN Conference in Toronto, and the
FrontLine Solutions Conference in
Chicago. (Newsletter also includes a substantial discount coupon for
attending the RFID Developer's Conference.)
| RFID Networks and Middleware |
| Presented at: Frontline Expo on September 13-15, 2004 |
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| Date Published: September 2004 |
Overview: Peter Winer moderated two panel discussions at
Frontline Expo on September 13 and 14, 2004. The RFID Networks panel has representatives from GlobeRanger, ConnecTerra,
Oat Systems and Blue Vector Systems. The RFID Middleware and Web Services panel has representatives from BEA Systems,
webMethods and Sun Microsystems.
All files are Adobe Acrobat format.
Overview: Update of Big Chief Partners recent
activities and our latest insight on RFID Infrastructure: Networks, Middleware and Applications.
The newsletter also offers details for our two upcoming panel discussions at the Frontline Expo
conference in Chicago on September 13 - 15.
Overview: On Tuesday May 11, 2004, Peter Winer moderated a panel discussion at the MIT Club of Northern
California in Palo Alto. This PDF provides the presentation slides for the talk, titled "Tracking the Explosive Growth of RFID".
The panelists for this discussion included representatives from Savi Technology, Blue Vector Systems, The Mayfield Fund and Oracle.
Overview: Update of Big Chief Partners recent
activities and our latest insights on developing RFID technology, issues and standards.
This newsletter tracks the latest RFID Middleware and exposes controversial new efforts
to use RFID in passports and other identity documents. Also, we provide our view of the
emerging standards efforts related to automatic identification including RFID.
| Middleware Requirements for Supply Chain Integration |
| Presented at: RFID World on April 22, 2004 |
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| Date Published: Apr 2004 |
| Download File: rfid-world-2004-04-22.pdf |
| File Format: Adobe Acrobat |
Overview: The critical return on investment
for RFID tagging will come from intelligent use of captured data. Companies must be able to
capture clean data they can use. This will be accomplished with a new kind of software called
RFID middleware. Such software manages the flow of data between tag readers and enterprise
applications and is responsible for the quality, and therefore usability, of the information.
This panel session, moderated by Peter Winer defined the scope of RFID middleware and described
the key players in this growing space.
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Overview: Libraries, schools, the government and
private sector businesses are adopting radio frequency identification tags, or RFIDs — a technology
that pinpoints the physical location of whatever item the tags are embedded in. While this may
seem like a convenient way to track items, it's also a convenient way to do something less benign:
track people and their activities through their belongings. This presentation offered a high
level view of the technology, applications and privacy concerns surrounding the deployment of RFID.
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Overview: This year many organizations are moving from
evaluating the business case for RFID and GTIN to starting plans for full scale deployment.
Groups planning deployment face a wide array of choices including competing standards, emerging
applications and product offerings from startups and established vendors. Making the wrong
choices can increase costs, create delays and force adoption of technologies that may not
remain compatible long enough to deliver adequate return on investment. This presentation
offered an overview of this complex landscape and described some of the most important
issues in RFID and GTIN supply chain deployments.
Overview: This document provides an
update on recent activities, and includes the article "RFID is Going Mainstream"
written by Peter Winer for Renoir Partners, a leading management consultancy
firm based in London, UK.
Overview: According to research from
Accenture and other leading consulting firms, over 50% of the cost of
deploying RFID is consumed by systems integration and custom software development.
Many RFID experts believe infrastructure software or "middleware" is
the key to reducing these costs and to fostering broader RFID adoption.
This document provides a summary of a panel discussion "Middleware for
Enabling RFID Solutions" moderated by Peter Winer of Big Chief
Partners. This document contains a review of the panel discussion, as
well as an analysis of our latest thinking on middleware in this space.
Overview: This document provides an overview of
recent activities, developments and observations related to automatic identification.
An update on our activities with Philips Semiconductors is provided. Other major
topics include conclusions from the RFID World conference, analysis of Auto ID Center
software and a review of notable companies developing batteries for active RFID tags.
| Security and Authentication Technologies |
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| Date Published: May 2003 |
| Download File: rfid-world-2003-05-13.pdf |
| File Format: Adobe Acrobat |
Overview: This presentation (from the RFID World conference
in Fort Lauderdale, FL) includes a summary of
currently available solutions for providing security and authentication in RFID-enabled
solutions. Emerging technologies are also discussed. In addition, two case studies
illustrate the need for security and authentication in automatic identification solutions.
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