Assessing and optimizing the range of UHF RFID to enable real-world pervasive computing applications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4480 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 280-297

  Hodges, Steve ^a   Thome, Alan ^b   Mallinson, Hugo ^b   Floerkemeier, Christian ^c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPERATING COSTS; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); ROBOTIC AUTOMATION;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 38049025748     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72037-9_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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