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CANADIAN INDUSTRY ONLINE - JANUARY 2012
ACADEMIA RFID
:
EXPERTISE IN CONSULTING,
TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION
IN RFID
A
CADEMI A RF ID I S THE
world’s leading RFID centre
of excellence, working hand-in-hand
with an international network of
universities, industry-recognized
associations
and
technology
partners offering trilingual RFID
training and certification, research
and development, and expert RFID
services to public and private
organizations interested in discov-
ering and implementing RFID
technology and practices.
In 1999, its parent company
invested in a logistics and
transport firm that had been around
for 26 years. Anthony Palermo,
director of business development at
Academia RFID, says: “After four or
five years, we realized that not
enough people knew what the
technology was, so we wanted to
create a centre that would offer
training and certification to help
people start their own projects and
allow this technology to gain
momentum.”
EDUCATION ON RFID
Academia RFID works with
organizations worldwide to educate
their personnel on the benefits,
restrictions and various facets of
RFID technology, and helps them
design comprehensive roadmaps for
implementation, integration and
sustainability for their RFID
initiatives.
Academia RFID is a centre that
offers more than just knowledge
transfer and demonstrations; it is a
fully functional research environ-
ment that has project teams entirely
dedicated to business process
re-engineering, and software devel-
opment teams focused on solution
design and integration.
“Initially, because we were
offering training and certification,
we had a lot of mid-sized companies
that were suppliers that were
contacting us,” says Palermo.
“They wanted to know what the
solution was and how they could
benefit from it internally. Corpora-
tions are always looking at the best
“
Since there is no human
interaction, there are no
human errors”
WHAT IS RFID?
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
enables a device to read information from
a distinct tag without requiring any physical
contact or line of site between the two. The
system consists of three major components:
the tag, the reader and the middleware.
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