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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Asset Tracking"”.
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Enhancing cleanroom operations: From preventive equipment maintenance to lethal chemical asset tracking
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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FMCW RFID backscatter localization
… in supply chain management, virtual reality, and asset tracking, there has been an increasing interest in accurate localization and motion tracking using radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags. In this thesis, we explore a one-shot radio-frequency identification based localization and motion …
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Design and Implementation of System Components for Radio Frequency Based Asset Tracking Devices to Enhance Location Based Services. Study of angle of arrival techniques, effects of mutual coupling, design of an angle of arrival algorithm, design of a novel miniature reconfigurable antenna optimised for wireless communication systems
… and is very well suited for the asset tracking applications.
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Nanoporous flexographic printing : fundamentals, applications and scale-up
… films, for applications such as smart packaging, asset tracking, and photovoltaics. Among conventional printing processes, flexography is a scalable, high-speed direct printing method, yet its resolution is limited by squeeze-out of ink between the non-porous stamp and substrate and by dewetting …
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Design and measurement of antennas within lossy materials for IoT applications
Internet of Things (IoT) technology for asset tracking in the transportation and logistics industry relies on wireless electronic communicating devices, often encapsulated with lossy filler materials which cause issues for the embedded antennas. This thesis studies methods of enhancing antenna …
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A phase measurement radio positioning system for indoor use
… applications for this system range from asset tracking, security, and human-computer interface, to robot navigation and the management of services as diverse as medical care and postal delivery. I first present the issues surrounding its conceptual design and then describe in detail the …
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Propagation of Unit Location Uncertainty in Dense Storage Environments
… which results in item location uncertainty when asset tracking is insufficient. Given an initial certainty in item location, we use Markovian principles to quantify the growth of uncertainty as a function of retrieval requests and discover that the steady state probability distribution for any …
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RFID anti-collision technique: coherent collision
RFID technology has enabled great advances in the asset tracking industry. Shipping, warehouse inventory, and storefront security are just a few examples where the application of RFID systems has increased efficiency and lowered cost. A major area of research at the present time is concerned with …
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The Cricket indoor location system
… interactive virtual games, resource discovery, asset tracking, location-aware sensor networking etc. Typical indoor applications require better accuracy than what current outdoor location systems provide. Outdoor location technologies such as GPS have poor indoor performance because of the harsh …
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Pushing the Limits of RF and Underwater Backscatter Systems
… applications such as environmental monitoring, asset tracking, and batteryless localization. However, backscatter systems are usually constrained by a limited operational range of a few meters. This limitation is generally due to the low power nature of the backscattered signal. In the case of …
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Analysis of the Position-Dependent Error in FTM RTT Indoor Navigation
… for a wide range of applications, such as asset tracking, indoor navigation, and contact tracing. Unfortunately, the error of reported FTM RTT distance measurements has been shown to have a standard deviation that ranges from 1-2 meters in ideal setups. A major FTM RTT error source was …
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Optimum Performance of UHF RFID Tags in Dielectric Environment
… being deployed extensively in supply chain and asset tracking by retailers to better control their inventory. The main drawback of UHF RFID tag antenna is that it is sensitive to the environment in which it operates. The performance of the tag degrades when placed on conductive or dielectric …
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An investigation of potential business and technology opportunities of IoT digital transformation in construction industry
… and resulting accidents arising of poor asset tracking, inefficient employee clock-ins/clock-outs, and employee tracking.
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Low frequency indoor radiolocation
… relative to their environment is crucial for asset tracking, security, and human-computer interface (HCI) applications. These applications may be as simple as tracking the location of a valuable shipping carton or detecting the theft of a laptop computer, or as complex as helping someone to …
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A technical, financial, and policy analysis of the RAMSES RFID inventory management system for NASA's International Space Station: prospects for SBIR/STTR technology infusion
… have been employed to analyze a new asset tracking and management system for human spaceflight applications. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Aurora Flight Sciences developed Rule-based analytic Asset Management for Space Exploration System (RAMSES) via NASA Small- …
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An all-digital transmitter for pulsed ultra-wideband communication
… like sensor networks, medical monitoring, and asset tracking have led to a demand for energy-efficient and low-cost wireless transceivers. These types of applications typically require low effective data rates, thus providing an opportunity to employ simple modulation schemes and aggressive …
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CAD-GIS Interoperability Issues for Facilities Management: Enabling Inter-Disciplinary Workflows
… of applications such as facilities management, asset tracking, class scheduling, and others.</p> <p>The goal of this thesis was to better understand the integration between CAD oriented drawing environments and GIS, to devise tools for incorporating CAD building floor plan data into a 3D GIS …
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Digital Chemical Engineering Across Scales and Domains: Case studies in electrochemistry, automated labs, and reticular materials
… demonstrate automation of resource optimisation, asset tracking, and inventory management in scalable, interoperable, and FAIR-compliant research environments. The final part addresses the autonomous design and synthesis of reticular materials. We present a pipeline that extracts synthesis …
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DISTRIBUTED PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS IN WIDE AREA RFID
… in many applications such as stock management, asset tracking and access control. For wide area applications, Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) have been used to obtain good coverage with few antennas by making use of multiple spatially distributed antennas and phase dithering. This implements a …
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Direction Finding and Beamforming Techniques using Antenna Array for Wireless System Applications
… and future engineering applications such as tracking of targets, wireless mobile communications, radar systems, etc. This thesis firstly investigates different types of AOA and beamforming techniques. A comprehensive comparison between the common AOA algorithms is performed to evaluate the …
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