Buddy Bishop, AESS Chair
IEEE AESS Planned Activities
Date: Nov 15th, 2007
Time: 1100-1300 hrs
Place: Ryan's on University Drive ( near Red Lobster).
Note: 15% gratuity will be added to your bill in order for us to use the private room.
Luncheon: Speaker: Mr Ron Ogan , Raytheon Corp, Senior Systems Engineer, and IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Board of Governors member
Subject: RFID ( Radio Frequency Identification)
RFID technology has been in development since 1970 on aircraft to return an identity of "friend or foe" when transponders are interrogated by radar transmitters. Low power RFID transponders and readers are being used to track virtually every type of object or animal using the available frequency band of 134 kHz, 13.6 MHz, in compliance with ISO/IEC standards of 14443 (Proximity) and 15693 (Vicinity).
Automobile immobilizers have been in use on most vehicles since 1999 to prevent theft. EPCglobal (EPC Gen2 or C1V2) and ISO/IEC (18000-6a, b) RFID standards have been released for UHF readers and tags and ISO18000-6c is pending with final release planned for summer 2005.
The Tag Transponder can be active (with an internal power source), passive (rectifies RF energy to power the IC) or chipless. Passive tags are being developed as economic solutions to effectively manage product inventories and new RFID technology directives have been made recently by Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense. Read range performance data will be discussed to show the effects of the antenna design which is the circuit inlay of the transponder.
Ron Ogan received a B.S., Physics, Oklahoma State University, an M.S. Engineering, Southern Methodist University and post-graduate MSEE courses at the University of South Florida. He recently completed a project as Developer and Industry Instructor for a project-oriented course for engineering at University of North Texas (UNT) to introduce Radio Frequency Identification technology and applications in support of a National Science Foundation grant. Ron is currently employed as a Senior Systems Engineer on airborne radar systems at Raytheon Systems Company, Forest, MS.
Previously employed with Cadence Design Systems working on site at Nokia Networks, Irving, TX designing and developing GSM/GPRS/EDGE base station and as a Product Engineer on a Millimeter-wave communications project at Motorola and as a Systems Engineer under contract to Raytheon TI Systems, Lewisville, TX from 1995-1999 working on the HARM targeting system and other advanced technology for aircraft applications. Previous experience included staff engineer at Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin Corp.), Orlando, FL working on Electro-Optic programs and Project engineer on Space Shuttle Main Engine Controller Block II at Honeywell, Clearwater, FL. Currently, IEEE Senior member and Chair for IEEE Dallas Section and member of Board of Governors of the Aerospace & Electronics Systems Society. Served as Chair, Program Chair, Secretary/Treasurer of the IEEE of the Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society, Dallas Chapter. Also member of International Council of Systems Engineers (INCOSE).
Many of you already know Ron through his attendance at several Huntsville AESS events over the past 2 years. He is also a member of the IEEE National Board of Governors so he's "royalty". He's also has worked various RFID projects at Raytheon. This subject area is becoming increasingly more important to all of us engineers involved in Defense and aerospace work. He is excellent speaker and the topic is timely.I hope to see you there on the 15th. To help me allow Ryan's to accomodate us, please reply to this email by 12 Nov if you plan on attending the meeting.
Dr William Y. ("Buddy") Bishop
AESS Chair, Huntsville Section
phone: 256-313-2054
william.bishop@msl.army.mil
rbishop744@aol.com