Special Sessions on RFID

Thursday Sept. 26th 

Wireless Power Transfer Enabling the IoT

8.30 – 12.30, Auditorium Leonardo da Vinci
Session Organizers:
Alessandra Costanzo, University of Bologna
Nuno Borges Carvalho, University of Aveiro

Chipless and Conventional RFIDs: Challenges in Fabrication, Joint Implementation and Applications

8.30 – 12.30, Room Galileo Galilei
Session Organizers:
Smail Tedjini, Université Grenoble-Alpes
Simone Genovesi, University of Pisa

RFID R&D Activities in IEEE Chapters

8.30 – 10.10, Room Antonio Pacinotti
Session Organizers:

Chen Zhi Ning, National University of Singapore
Malay Ranjan, Tripathy, Amity University, Noida, India

Ultra-Wideband and High-Frequency RFID

10.50 – 12.30, Room Antonio Pacinotti
Session Organizers:
Davide Dardari, University of Bologna
Raffaele D’Errico, CEA-LETI

RFID Ladies: spotlight on recent scientific and industrial advances of Women Engineers

14.40 – 18.20, Auditorium Leonardo da Vinci
Session Organizers:
Cecilia Occhiuzzi, Tor Vergata University, Italy
Johanna VirkkiTampere University of Technology, Finland

Chipless RFID and Wireless Metamaterial Sensors

14.40 – 18.20, Room Galileo Galilei
Session Organizers:
Filippo Costa, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Etienne Perret, University of Grenoble Alpes


Friday Sept. 27th 

RFID for Body-centric Networks: Wearable, Epidermal, and Implantable Systems 

8.30 – 12.30, Auditorium Leonardo da Vinci
Session Organizers:
G. Marrocco, University of Roma Tor Vergata
J. Batchelor, University of Kent

Positioning, Tracking and Navigation with RFID Systems

8.30 – 12.30, Room Galileo Galilei
Session Organizers:
Alice Buffi, University of Pisa
Klaus Witrisal, Graz University of Technology
Stefan Grebien, Graz University of Technology

Smart and Sensing RFID tags

8.30 – 12.30, Room Antonio Pacinotti
Session Organizers:
Joshua R. Smith, University of Washington, USA
Massimo Merenda, University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Novel Antennas for RFID Applications

14.40 – 18.20, Auditorium Leonardo da Vinci
Session Organizers:
Z. N. Chen, National University of Singapore
G. A. Casula, Università degli Studi di Cagliari
R. Colella, Università del Salento

Advances in RFID for IoT Applications

14.40 – 18.20, Room Galileo Galilei
Session Organizers:
Luca Catarinucci, University of Salento
Petar Solic, University of Split

Solutions, Challenges and Expectations for Ubiquitous Applications

14.40 – 16.00, Room Antonio Pacinotti
Session Organizers:
Renato Ferrero, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Javier Vales Alonso, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain

16.40 – 18.20, Room Antonio Pacinotti
Session Organizers:
Egidio Ragonese, University of Catania, DIEEI, Catania, Italy
Nenad Marjanović, CSEM Center Muttenz, Muttenz, Switzerland