Figures 1-1 1-2 1-3 1-4 1-5 1-6 1-7 1-8 1-9 1-10 1-11 1-12 1-13 1-14 1-15 1-16 1-17 1-18 1-19 1-20 1-21 1-22 1-23 1-24 1-25 1-26 1-27 1-28 1-29 1-30 1-31 1-32 2-1 2-2 2-3 2-4 2-5 2-6 Example of an Ameritech Wireless RFID toll tag card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Examples of RFID transponders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Encapsulated agricultural and pet RFID tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Intellitag RFID by Intermec Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 RFID frequency allocation standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Static Barcode label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Example of a key fob security token . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Example material characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Simplified RFID system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Visual representation of an RFID system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Graphical representation of perfect broadcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Typical RF broadcast pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Reader location for optimum performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Intermec mini dipole RFID tag insert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Individual case tag locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Product tags per case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Illustration of the complexity for pallet, case, and product tags . . . . . . . 18 Visual representation of a pallet of cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Absorption of the electromagnetic field when water is the medium . . . . 19 Saturation chart with typical characteristics of frequency and samples . 19 Example of a passive tag - Intermec Butterfly RFID tag insert . . . . . . . 20 Example of an active tag - RF Code Mantis tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Elements of an RFID tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Example of a chip-size RFID tag compared to a U.S. postage stamp . . 24 Example of an RFID tag insert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 IBM Wireless Center of Excellence RFID testing facility . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 IBM dock door RFID portals at the Wireless Center of Excellence . . . . 27 The team in the Wireless Center of Excellence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The Wireless Center of Excellence state-of-the-art conveyor system . . 29 Performing an RFID site survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Radio Frequency interference factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Sample site survey form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 The IBM RFID Solution Domain Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Mapping the IBM RFID Solution Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Software and tooling for complete RFID solution implementations . . . . 42 IBM RFID Consulting and Services and IBM Business Partners roles . 44 WebSphere RFID solution implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 WebSphere RFID solution: components and functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2006. All rights reserved. ix