ABSTRACT

The Radio Frequency and Automated Identication (RAID) vision is that “Everything will be tracked wirelessly in 9 years.” Their mission is to provide integrated solutions in logistics and other data-driven environments through automatic data capture, real-world prototypes, and analysis. Their objective is to attract recognized funding from notable federal agencies and nationally recognized organizations to provide a research facility that inspires future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) researchers from K-12 as well as undergraduate students. A further goal of RAID is to attract national attention from academic rankings and research recognition. The RAID laboratory is one of the most developed laboratories at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). It has latest technology equipment that includes military grade xed and mobile active radio frequency identication (RFID) systems (Savi Technologies, RF Code), industry grade high speed automated conveyor (Hytrol Conveyor), industry recognized RFID edgeware, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and warehouse management system (WMS) systems (Global Concepts), Wal-Mart/Department of Defense (DOD) mandated standard xed and mobile passive RFID systems (Alien Technologies, Metrics), hospital tracking location systems (Ubisense Ultra-Wide Band), real-time location system, barcode readers, optical character recognition, satellite tags, 2-D barcode etching machines, and industrial antenna enclosures.