The IEEE RFID-TA 2021 provides a forum for the advancement of RFID technology and practice; it aims at strengthening relations between industry, research institutions and academia and gives attendees a unique opportunity to share, discuss, and witness research results in all areas of RFID technologies and their applications.

Conference Topics

The Conference will broadly cover the topics given below:

• Antenna design and characterization
• Channel measurements and modelling
• Modelling, simulation and implementation of RFID-based systems
• MIMO, UWB and hybrid RFIDs
• Circuit design and characterization for readers and tags
• Active tags
• Smart and programmable tags
• Chipless RFID technology
• RFID manufacturing processes, 3D and inkjet printing
• Networking and communication concepts
• Coding and modulation schemes
• Multi-reader coordination and interference reduction
• RFID software, middleware and protocols
• Cybersecurity, cryptography and privacy-enhancing techniques, anti-counterfeiting
• Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer
• Near Field Communications
• RFID applications in healthcare, precision agriculture, transportation, safety
• Security, inventory management, logistics, fashion, retail
• Wearable and biomedical applications
• Green technologies for RFID
• RFID-based infrastructures for Internet of Things
• RFID for Industry 4.0
• RFID for Smart Cities
• RFID-enabled localization systems
• RFID sensors
• RF tomography and environmental sensing
• Millimetre-wave identifi cation and sensing
• Next-generation RFID applications

2021 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications (RFID-TA) took place October 6-8, 2021 virtually.