During an entertaining conference banquet on September 17, the best paper, best student paper, and best posters were announced. Best Paper Award Towards Pervasive Soil Moisture Sensing using RFID Tag Antenna-Based Sensors:  Azhar Hasan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Georgia Institute of Technology, USA:  Currently National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan); Rahul Bhattacharyya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Sanjay Sarma (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)       Best Student Paper Award Long range and low powered RFID tags with tunnel diode: Francesco Amato (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Christopher Peterson (Georgia Institute of Technlogy, USA); Muhammad Bashir Akbar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Gregory Durgin (Georgia Tech, USA)        …

RFID-TA 2015 received 67 paper registrations and 55 paper submissions. After a rigorous double-blind review process by the 50 technical program committee members (3.02 reviews/paper), 29 papers were finally accepted giving an acceptance ratio of 52%. Of those 29 papers, the following 3 were nominated for best paper award: Balance Codes for More Throughput in RFID and Backscatter Links: Gregory Durgin (Georgia Tech, USA) Towards Pervasive Soil Moisture Sensing using RFID Tag Antenna-Based Sensors: Azhar Hasan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Rahul Bhattacharyya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Sanjay Sarma (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Development and Evaluation of a Ground Coil Monitoring System Using Semi-Passive Sensor Tags; Minoru Tanaka (Railway Technical Research Institute, Japan) Additionally,…

Registration for IEEE RFID-TA has opened! Please check our Registration Page for information on the registration process. Some conference highlights include: Workshop on Wireless Power Transfer Two days of technical presentations Keynote talks by Mr. Keita SHIMANUKI, Senior Executive Officer of Logistic Business at Rakuten and Mr. Ram RAMPALLI, Global Head of Content Acquisition at @WalmartLabs Roundtable discussion – ‘How can we leverage information communications technology in supply chain management and marketing?’ Special joint session with the Auto-ID Expo – “Personal information protection in IoT era – Japanese regulations, Food labeling, and Healthcare” This session will be held in Japanese. Conference banquet at the Washington Hotel Ariake Co-location with the 17th AutoID…