Transport under scrutiny at RFID conference

The RFID Europe conference will have many opinion leaders from across the world. Speaker Brian Dobson of Transport for London will be giving a status report of the London Oyster card experience.

This is the largest transport RFID card scheme in the western world and plans will be announced to move to the next generation of RFID technology for travel.

Speaker Vidar Kvalheim from Norway will describe how a problem of authorised access and stock control with hospital textiles has been solved using ISO15693 HF RFID and Dr Peter Harrop of IDTechEx will cover apparel RFID in general because this is one of the newly vibrant sectors of the market.

Ciaran Connell of DecaWave in Ireland is one of the many suppliers making first announcements. He is working on active RFID at 2.4 GHz. He says that he will announce a breakthrough in real-time location systems. It is a standards compliant (IEEE 802.15.4a) Phy enabling indoor affordable (€2 in volume) system.

Three companies will announce breakthroughs in UHF RFID at the conference and Selexyz, the world's largest user of it in bookshops, will speak. Eight others will deal with new technologies and the investment summit alone has speakers from eight countries.