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Below are UW RFID Lab founding partners from Wisconsin industry. See additional generous contributors »

We have a state-of-the-art laboratory with multiple testbeds.

Portal/dock-door station
  1. RedPraire, Alien or Symbol software
  2. Transportation experiments
  3. Inventory-tracking experiments
  4. Able to fit large truck through portal
  5. Can use 3 or more antennas at a time
  6. Reading triggered by photo eye

Conveyor-system station
  1. Conveyor loop with diverter
  2. 3 segments: 250 fpm, 600 fpm, 250 fpm
  3. State-of-the-art device network
  4. Motors, drives, controls
  5. PLC control panel
  6. Control software and HMI by Rockwell Automation

Antenna design and performance-analysis station
  1. Hardware, software, anechoic chamber
  2. Tag antenna design
  3. Tag chip impedance measurement
  4. Antenna parameters measurement
  5. Radiation pattern
  6. Gain
  7. Polarization
  8. Radar cross section (RCS) measurement
  9. ESD analysis for RFID tag

To find out more about the UW RFID Lab and its work, contact its Director, Alfonso Gutierrez, at agutierr@wisc.edu or 608-262-5690.