The presentation will be given by Danny Haak working at Nedap.
There is currently a lot of buzz and hype around the ‘Internet of Things’. People build all kinds of crazy and cool applications that were impossible to imagine only a few years ago. However, if you look more closely, these are not ‘things’ - those are actually devices! Imagine what would happen if you could connect real ‘things’ (without power socket, battery or solar cells) to the internet? Like your beer bottles (real-time beer fridge inventory), your clothing (yep, laundry time) or your cat (…)?
There is only one technology that enables this: RAIN RFID. Using extremely cheap IC’s (100 times cheaper than Bluetooth Smart/LE) the technology still reads hundreds of tags per second over distances of more than ten meter. This explains why retailers are using this technology to track goods in their supply chain, hospitals to track equipment and the Batavierenrace to track runners. Some people are even connecting cameras or accelerometers to those chips, allowing wireless and battery-less sensors!
Danny will explain the technology in the presentation, and will learn you on the real Internet of Things, being made possible by more Moore. Of course there will be a demo!
Danny Haak has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, and got his degree at Twente University in 2009. Since then he has been working at Nedap Retail on RAIN RFID. First as developer working on the embedded software and the communication protocol, later as product manager for a growing team - making sure the customers understand the technology and the developers understand the customer.
Danny organised this same Scintilla symposium just after the first iPhone was announced. Yes, that feels a long way back.