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Emerging Applications in RFID and IoTs
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Emerging Applications in RFID and IoTs

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 13867

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Dave Parry

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Dept. of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
Interests: health informatics; usability; mobile devices; fuzzy logic; ontologies; data science
Dr. Samaneh Madanian

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Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Interests: digital health technologies and applications; IoT; AI and data science
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Dear Colleagues,

RFID enables real-time tracking of tagged objects and helps create a system of connected devices that continuously transmit data about their location, conditions, amount, etc. Combining the information collected by IoTs and the automatic identification provided by the RFID technology, opened a new paradigm and new era of applications, will have the potential to have a major impact on many application fields, such as healthcare, home automation, industry, automotive, military applications, disaster monitoring, etc.

This Special Issue aims to collect original and high-quality papers, both from academic and from industrial players, about new trends, solutions, and challenges in the adoption of the RFID technology for the development of IoT applications.

Papers are sought on a number of topics, including but not limited to:

  • RFID and IoT applications in healthcare
  • Applications of RFID for smart cities
  • RFID-based devices for the Internet of Things
  • Privacy, security, and safety issues;
  • Networks with RFID
  • RFID sensors
  • Implementation issues of IoT applications
  • Ambient intelligence based on RFID labeling
Prof. Dr. Dave Parry

Dr. Samaneh Madanian
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • RFID
  • IoT
  • eHealth
  • informatics
  • ubiquitous computing

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An IoT-Aware Smart System Exploiting the Electromagnetic Behavior of UHF-RFID Tags to Improve Worker Safety in Outdoor Environments
by Teodoro Montanaro, Ilaria Sergi, Andrea Motroni, Alice Buffi, Paolo Nepa, Marco Pirozzi, Luca Catarinucci, Riccardo Colella, Francesco Paolo Chietera and Luigi Patrono
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 717; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050717 - 25 Feb 2022
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Recently, different solutions leveraging Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have been adopted to avoid accidents in agricultural working environments. As an example, heavy vehicles, e.g., tractors or excavators, have been upgraded with remote controls. Nonetheless, the community continues to encourage discussions on safety [...] Read more.
Recently, different solutions leveraging Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have been adopted to avoid accidents in agricultural working environments. As an example, heavy vehicles, e.g., tractors or excavators, have been upgraded with remote controls. Nonetheless, the community continues to encourage discussions on safety issues. In this framework, a localization system installed on remote-controlled farm machines (RCFM) can help in preventing fatal accidents and reduce collision risks. This paper presents an innovative system that exploits passive UHF-RFID technology supported by commercial BLE Beacons for monitoring and preventing accidents that may occur when ground-workers in RCFM collaborate in outdoor agricultural working areas. To this aim, a modular architecture is proposed to locate workers, obstacles and machines and guarantees the security of RCFM movements by using specific notifications for ground-workers prompt interventions. Its main characteristics are presented with its main positioning features based on passive UHF-RFID technology. An experimental campaign discusses its performance and determines the best configuration of the UHF-RFID tags installed on workers and obstacles. Finally, system validation demonstrates the reliability of the main components and the usefulness of the proposed architecture for worker safety. Full article
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Identifying the Potential of RFID in Disaster Healthcare: An International Delphi Study
by Samaneh Madanian and Dave Parry
Electronics 2021, 10(21), 2621; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10212621 - 27 Oct 2021
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Mainstream healthcare has been facing numerous challenges, and it is expected to see that these challenges become more severe and frequent when healthcare is dealing with disasters. This points to the necessity of utilising technologies to support healthcare and disaster managers in making [...] Read more.
Mainstream healthcare has been facing numerous challenges, and it is expected to see that these challenges become more severe and frequent when healthcare is dealing with disasters. This points to the necessity of utilising technologies to support healthcare and disaster managers in making quality decisions during chaotic and rapidly changing conditions in disaster situations. Therefore, in this research, the objective is to identify the role of RFID technology in healthcare-related activities before, during, and after disasters in terms of application areas and phases of the disaster management cycle (DMC). A Delphi approach was used in this research. Two rounds of questionnaires were administered to a panel of experts to evaluate the actual and potential use of RFID applications for healthcare within DMC. The Delphi participants were the field experts in the areas of disaster management, disaster medicine, and information systems. Based on the Delphi results, RFID applications were seen to be most useful in the response and recovery phases of disasters. RFID was seen as being most helpful for health-related supply management and casualty information. There were concerns that privacy and security may be barriers to adoption and use. Other applications identified by this study include identifying and tracking medical resources (including clinicians and first responders) and their accurate coordination in the response missions, determining idle resources, and maximising their utilisation during response activities. In this research, 35 potential scenarios of RFID applications for healthcare purposes within DMC and Disaster e-Health (DEH) were evaluated with the Delphi participants. RFID technologies could play an important role in DMC and DEH to provide more reliable and timely information to support healthcare during disasters. Based on the research results, managing the supply chain emerged as a major RFID application for supporting disaster healthcare. Full article
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Clinical Perspective on Internet of Things Applications for Care of the Elderly
by Soe Ye Yint Tun, Samaneh Madanian and Dave Parry
Electronics 2020, 9(11), 1925; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9111925 - 16 Nov 2020
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The elderly population is increasing globally, putting more pressure on aged care and public health systems. To address this issue and help increase the independence of older people, different digital technologies, including the Internet of things (IoT), can play an important role. Although [...] Read more.
The elderly population is increasing globally, putting more pressure on aged care and public health systems. To address this issue and help increase the independence of older people, different digital technologies, including the Internet of things (IoT), can play an important role. Although there has been an increase in the number of studies in this field, most of them concentrate on IoT applications in elderly care from a technology perspective, with very little contribution from the clinical side. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate and identify the available IoT applications and their clinical utility for common diseases in elderly people. The results of this study could be useful for information technology professionals in developing and understanding the clinical requirements for IoT applications in healthcare for older people. Clinicians will also be informed about the clinical possibilities of using IoT devices in this area. Based on our findings, future research should focus on enhancing the clinical utility of current IoT applications in different settings and on developing new applications to support practitioners and older people. Full article
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