NSF grant to study RFID applications for indoor informatics systems

Tuskegee University’s Computer Science Department has been awarded a two-year grant entitled Indoor Moving Object Trajectory Generation and Query Evaluation from the National Science Foundation to strengthen STEM undergraduate education and research at HBCUs.

The biggest challenge in indoor spaces is positioning, since GPS cannot be used in indoors spaces without some enhancement. As such, technologies like RFID, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are used indoors.

Recently, RFID has become an increasingly popular identification technology in indoor spaces due to the long durability of the passive RFID tags and their low cost. A vast number of applications already use RFID-based technology in the health care, transportation, logistics, and retail industries.