RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION -- RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 RFID INFRASTRUCTURE FOR GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS INVOLVING SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE NATIONAL EPC NETWORK DEMONSTRATOR PROJECT -- Pick Face Process -- Smart Shelf -- Wrapping and Labeling of Re-packed Shipments -- Search for EPC -- THE NDP EXTENSION -- ENTERPRISE MODEL OF THE TWO DEMONSTRATOR PROJECTS -- PHYSICAL SYSTEM IN THE DEMONSTRATOR PROJECTS -- THE EPC NETWORK AS THE INFORMATION SYSTEM -- THE DECISION SYSTEM -- FUTURE VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE MODEL FOR RFID ENABLED SUPPLY CHAIN -- EXAMPLE OF NON-EPC DATA SOURCE: GEO-FENCE -- SUPPORTING GLOBAL OPERATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 THE ROLE OF RFID IN AGRICULTURE -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. RFID APPLICATIONS IN AGRICULTURE -- 2.1. Food Traceability -- Policy Requirements -- 2.2. Animal Identification and Tracking -- Animal Identification Programs -- 2.3. Other Livestock Applications -- 2.4. Precision Agriculture -- Climate Monitoring -- Precision Irrigation -- Greenhouses -- Farm Machinery -- 2.5. Cold Chain Applications -- Intermodal Transport of Agro-food Products -- 3. CHALLENGES AND LIMITATIONS -- 4. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 PLANTS WITH IMPLANTED RFID MICROCHIPS: TRACEABILITY AND OUTLOOK IN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Certification and Traceability in Agriculture -- 1.2. Plant Identification as Prerequisite for Proper Product Traceability -- 2. PLANTS WITH IMPLANTED MICROCHIPS -- 2.1. The RFID Technology -- 2.2. Tagging Plants with RFID Microchips -- 3. HOW RFID CAN SUPPORT FARM MANAGEMENT -- 3.1. RFID for Information Management Purposes in Agriculture -- 3.2. RFID/GIS Applications: Outlook in Precision Farming -- 4. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 4 RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF MEDICINE DISASTER AID -- INTRODUCTION -- GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 1. The Disaster Medicine in France -- Definition -- Risks -- Response -- 2. The SAMU and its Department of Disaster Medicine -- SAMU (Service d'Aide Médicale Urgente) -- The SAMU Department and its Disaster Medicine Unit -- 3. RFID Technology and its Current Use [4], [5], [6], [7] -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- 1. The Red Channel and the Current Channel of Relief -- General Organization -- Informations are Stored through -- This System Suffers from Several Weaknesses -- 2. Materials: Suitable RFID Bracelets, Viewer -- Plastic Bracelets including RFID Tag, RFID Reader, Tablet PC -- Software for Data Management -- 3. LOCAL NETWORK -- 4. RFID throughout the Medical Emergency Process -- General Scheme -- Concept-with Offset Information -- TESTS AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS -- 1. Test on the Real Field Size -- 2. Problems -- DISCUSSION -- 1. The Concept of RFID Computerization of the Chain of Emergency: The Expected Benefits -- 2. Areas for further Improvements -- 3. Inevitable Disadvantages of this System -- 4. Other Possible Application of RFID in Disaster Medicine -- Inventory of Mobile Health Units of the SAMU -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 RFID ADOPTION IN THE DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING WORLD -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. LITERATURE REVIEW -- 2.1. The Importance of Bridging the Gap -- 2.2. Forces Propelling RFID Adoption -- 2.2.1. Mandates from Retailers -- 2.2.2. Retail Supply Chain -- 2.2.3. Food Traceability -- 2.2.4. Authenticity -- 2.2.5. ICT Giants Contributions -- 3. DISCUSSION -- 3.1. Challenges to the RFID Adoption -- 3.1.1. Telecommunication Infrastructure -- 3.1.2. Privacy -- 3.1.3. Standard -- 3.1.4. Health Issue -- 3.1.5. Data Handling, Distribution, and Mining.

3.1.6. Benchmarking and Usage Contexts -- 3.1.7. Security and Economic -- 4. RECOMMENDATION -- 4.1. Cost -- 4.2. Standardization, Awareness and Training -- 5. CONCLUSION -- 5.1. The Strategies to Bridge the Gap -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 ROADMAP TO RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION AND LIBRARY IMPLEMENTATION: A REVIEW* -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Barcode System -- Biometric Procedures -- Smart Cards -- 2. HISTORY OF RFID -- 3. ESSENTIAL PARTS AND FEATURES OF RFID SYSTEM -- 4. RFID TAGS -- 4.1. Active Tags -- 4.2. Passive Tags -- 5. READERS -- 6. DATA SECURITY -- 7. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF RFID -- 8. APPLICATIONS OF RFID -- 9. RFID LIBRARY IMPLEMENTATION - A CASE STUDY -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Methodology -- 9.3. RS-232 Port -- 9.3.1. Functions of Signals in RS-232[6] -- 9.4. System Overview -- 9.5. Explanation of its Working with Example -- 10. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 COULD RFID-BASED SYSTEMS BE REGARDED AS MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS?* -- ABSTRACT -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. REVIEW OF THE RFID TECHNOLOGY -- A. Basics of RFID -- B. Pros and Cons of RFID -- III. CHARACTERISTICS OF MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS -- IV. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RFID-BASED SYSTEMS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS -- A. Recent Development of Agent-Oriented RFID-Based Systems -- B. Comparison between RFID-Based Systems and Multi-Agent Systems -- V. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Blank Page.