The Missing Link to iOT Computing: RAIN RFID

Michael HrabinaExecutive Vice PresidentFEIG Electronics, Inc.www.feig-electronics.com

“Take a lot of unrelated and minimally related things such as passive RFID, Zigbee, wireless sensor networksand hobbyist micro-controllers and give them a grand new name such as the Internet of Things. Instantly youcan claim it is a substantial market and set to be much bigger in the future if only because you will shovel other things into the definition. Sell it all as ”The Next Big Thing”. You can unload a lot of reports and consultancy on the back of that.”

Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman IDTechEx

Nailing the definition of The Internet of Things

“The Internet of Things uses smart objects with their own IP addresses, operating and even collaborating

without human involvement”

Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman IDTechEx

IoT depends on wide variety of technologies

Five Generations of computers

Era Technology Programming1940-1956 Vacuum tube Machine code

1956- 1963 Transistors Assembly Language

1964-1971 Integrated Circuits Proprietary Operating Systems

1971-Present Microprocessors Standard Operating Systems

Beyond Massively Parallel Processing

Quantum Computation

The next generation is Artificial Intelligence

Progression of computer users

Users EntityScientists Governments

Engineers University / Large Corporations

Skilled workers Business

Mass Population Home Users

Things Everywhere

Internet of Things is part of the fifth generation

AI requires many inputs

• Voice recognition• Pattern recognition• Environmental sensors• Automatic Identification

RAIN RFID is the ID for IoT

RAIN RFID perfectly suited AI input

• Extremely fast• Non-line of sight data capture• Simultaneous capture of large numbers of transponders• Excellent read range• Small size, variety of form factors• Combined environmental sensors

RAIN RFID closes the gap to the next Generation of computing