Smart city concepts with tremendous benefits in energy efficiency, security, health, communication in daily life are taking off. Fast evolving technologies, including RFID, 5G, metamaterials, are the enabling factors of these concepts. And it is important for entrepreneurs, investors, technologists and engineers to understand the state-of-the-art of these technologies behind the smart city. By recognizing this demand, IEEE Singapore Council on RFID is organizing a workshop covering the fundamental theories and practical skills in this area. We are honoured to invite IEEE Fellows in local universities and research institutes together with industrial specialists to give technical speeches and extensive knowledge sharing in this workshop. Further, an academic forum is combined with the workshop to reveal more insights of related metamaterial technologies in this one-day event on Friday, November 1, 2019, at Fusionopolis.

To register, please download the following form, fill it up and send it back accordingly. We look forward to seeing you there.

Opening Ceremony & Welcome Address

Speaker: Dr. Anna Lau Pui Yi, Founding Chair of IEEE CRFID Singapore, CTO of Laxcen, AIM Global Board

Metamaterial Based Near Field Antennas

Speaker: Dr. Qing Xianming, IEEE Fellow, Institute for Infocomm Research

Advanced RFID Applications on AI, Library and Aviation

Speaker: Dr. Anna Lau Pui Yi, CTO of Laxcen, AIM Global Board

Enabling a Digital Airport

Speaker: Mr Lim Tuang Hin leads the Apron and Cargo team in the Aviation Industry Division. He works closely with airport stakeholders to identify and implement projects that can enhance productivity and drive innovation at Changi Airport. Mr. Lim graduated with a degree in engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2008. He started his career as an engineer with the Naval Logistics Organisation of the Singapore Navy and was an officer at the Economic Development Board before joining CAAS in 2013.

Abstract: Changi Airport has seen robust growth in recent years. Strong air traffic growth has placed increasing demands on the use of airport resources – from trolleys and wheel chairs in the terminals to baggage tractors and non-motorised equipment at the apron. As such, the Changi Airport community has to better track and manage our resources to ensure that we continue to support the growing number of passengers efficiently and effectively.

In recent years, the Changi Airport community has explored different types of sensors to track various airport assets. The presentation will touch on the various sensor use cases at Changi Airport and the requirements for the use cases. Examples of the different sensor trials at Changi Airport and our plans to build a Digital Airport will also be covered.

RF Technology for Libraries – HF or UHF?

Speaker: Ramachandran Narayanan has more than eighteen years of experience in the management of Enterprise IT services. Since 2000, Rama has been with National Library Board (NLB), and currently the Director & Deputy CIO in the Technology & Digital Services Division of NLB. Rama holds a postgraduate degree from NTU, and an MBA degree from Birmingham Business School, UK.

As a recognition of his contributions in NLB, Rama was also awarded the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in Singapore National Day Awards in 2010.

Abstract: Most of the Libraries around the world have invested in either HF or UHF RFID technology to facilitate seamless check-out and check-in of library items. The RFID tags used in the libraries are passive type and typically coded with the ID number of the library item along with any other essential data, as required by the library. The trend is also to keep minimum data in the RFID Tags and the detailed information is stored in the back-end systems. Many libraries also use the RFID Tag for EAS (Electronic  Article Surveillance) , sometimes complemented by an external database. The RFID technology has also the potential to be used for inventory management, stock-taking, item-locator, bulk-item-checkout, etc, etc. – all these tasks can be performed manual or Robot-assisted. This presentation is a sharing session from National Library Board, Singapore on the comparison between the HF and UHF technologies in the context of Library applications

An UHF RFID System for Nasogastric Tube Location in Vivo

Speaker: Dr. Richard Gao Xianke, Senior Scientist, Group Manager, Institute of High Performance Computing

Enhanced sensitivity at third-order exceptional points in passive wireless sensing system

Chao Zeng, Yong Sun, Yunhui Li, Haitao Jiang, Yaping Yang, and Hong Chen

MOE Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro-Structured Materials, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Permeability retrieval of uniform material or composite materials

Xu Chen, Yunhui Li, Yong Sun, Haitao Jiang, and Hong Chen

MOE Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro-Structured Materials, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Application of robust topological edge states in wireless power transfer

Caifu Fan, Keqiang Lv, Hunhui Li, and Hong Chen

MOE Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro-Structured Materials, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Acoustic splitting and bending with compact coding metasurfaces

Xinsheng Fang, Xu Wang, and Yong Li

Institute of Acoustics, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Circuit Analysis of WPT System Based on PT Symmetry

Yihui He, Yewen Zhang, Yu Liu, Kejia Zhu, Keqiang Lv, Yunhui Li

Department of Electrical Engineering and School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Giant optimal radiative heat transfer driven by higher order topological insulators

Yongliang Hu, Gaomin Tang, Jiebin Peng, Jian-Sheng Wang, and Jie Ren

Center for Phononics and Thermal Energy Science, China-EU Joint Center for Nanophononics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Special Artificial Microstructure Materials and Technology, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 

Magnetic field modulation based on megahertz coding metamaterials

Guo Li, Yong Sun, Yunhui Li, Haitao Jiang, and Hong Chen

MOE Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro-Structured Materials, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Robust wireless power transfer in an assembled planar metamaterial array

Keqiang Lv, Kejia Zhu, Caifu Fan, Guo Li, Yunhui Li, Hong Chen

MOE Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro-Structured Materials, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Realization of toroidal dipole moment in subwavelength metamaterial

Yuqian Wang, Yunhui Li, Yewen Zhang,Yong Sun, Kai Fang and Hong Chen

MOE Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro-Structured Materials, School of Physics Science and Engineering and College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Wide-angle ultrasensitive biosensors based on edge states in heterostrcutures containing hyperbolic metamaterials

Jiaju Wu, Feng Wu, Haitao Jiang, Chunhua Xue, and Hong Chen

MOE Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro-Structured Materials, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China and School of Computer Science & Communication Engineering, Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou, Guangxi, China

Level repulsion and attraction with meta-atom in a cavity

Qiong Wu, Yong Sun, Caifu Fan, Hong Chen

MOE Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro-Structured Materials, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Radiation pattern restoration of cross-band dipoles using inductive-loading mode-suppression method

Huiwen Sheng and Zhi Ning Chen

NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

A low-profile steering-switched-beam Metasurface lens array with reduced number of phase shifters

Ruolei Xu and Zhi Ning Chen

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore