The groups primary research focus is in the area of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) with a particular interest in projects that are applied and industrial in nature. The group has been leading the drive towards RFID adoption by Irish industry which is proportionally low compared with other EU countries. The group has secured funding for research activity from Enterprise Ireland, EU (ESTIIC and RFID in Europe) and also through Technological Sector Research funding. CIDS is recognised by many as being the primary research centre of RFID technological research in Ireland and as such has organised a number of well attended Conferences on RFID in 2007 and 2008, and has worked on RFID research projects in a number of sectors including:

• Logistics
• Telecommunications
• Medical
• Food
• Pharmaceutical

RFID technologies used in the groups research include the full spectrum from LF to Microwave and from passive to active. The group has also been a key player in a project on the development of a middleware solution to manage RFID data and route it between tag readers and enterprise systems using Mobile Networks such as GSM.

CIDS has managed to secure funding for many industrial based projects. To see if your project costs can be supplemented, please contact us at the RFID Centre.