Browsing MIT Auto-ID Laboratory by Title
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ADAPTER, OPTIMISER, PRÉVOIR: La convergence des concepts, des outils, des technologies et des normes peut-elle accélérer l’innovation ?
(ISLI, Bordeaux Ecole de Management, France, 2004)Les outils et procédés permettant de réduire les insuffisances de la chaîne logistique sont très précieux. La capacité à s’adapter peut en effet ne pas dépendre de la seule technologie mais d’une perpétuelle aptitude à ... -
Advances in Supply Chain Management: Potential to Improve Forecasting Accuracy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2016-07)Forecasting is a necessity almost in any operation. However, the tools of forecasting are still primitive in view of the great strides made by research and the increasing abundance of data made possible by automatic ... -
Agents: Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity
(2002)This is a summary of Agents research and its potential for applications in multiple fields. -
AUTO ID FUTURE - FREQUENCY AGNOSTIC
(SCE Europe, 2008-05)Identification of information is one key to the development of intelligent decision systems of the future. Frequency agnostic automatic identification is only one step in the physical world to make physical objects identify ... -
BEING DIGITAL - Nostradamus for the Soul
(2011-04-20)Amorphous and near-fictional aggregation of relational applications with social media, networking and ebusiness services. Hypothetical seamless lifestyle scenarios highlight convergence of applications inevitable in the ... -
Charlie's Skypeout Strategy
(Government of Finland, 2006-10-01)One view of the future of decision systems that hints how combinatorial convergence of tools, technologies, concepts and ideas may catalyse innovation in order to make better decisions. I have simply assembled them in ... -
Cloud Computing, REST and Mashups to Simplify RFID Application Development and Deployment
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2011-06)While of increasing importance for the real-time enterprise, deployments of Internet of Things infrastructures such as RFID remain complex and expensive. In this paper, we illustrate these challenges by studying the ... -
CloudThink and the Avacar : embedded design to create virtual vehicles for cloud-based informatics, telematics, and infotainment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)This paper describes the development and testing results for a system of Cloudbased mirrors for physical vehicles called "Avacars." Avacars duplicate parameters from On-Board Diagnostics, accelerometers, and GPS sensors ... -
Data proxies, the cognitive layer, and application locality : enablers of cloud-connected vehicles and next-generation internet of things
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Intelligent and Connected Vehicles reduce cost, improve safety, and enhance comfort relative to isolated vehicles. This ability for cars to sense, infer, and act facilitates data-driven improvements in occupant experience ... -
Decision Support and Systems Interoperability in Global Business Management
(International Journal of Electronic Business Management, 2007)Globalization of business and volatility of financial markets has catapulted ‘cycle-time’ as a key indicator of operational efficiency in business processes. Systems automation holds the promise to augment the ability of ... -
Design, development, and validation of a remotely reconfigurable vehicle telemetry system for consumer and government applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This thesis explores the design and development of a cost-effective, easy-to-use system for remotely monitoring vehicle performance and drivers' habits, with the aim of collecting data for vehicle characterization and ... -
Digital Transformation - IoT is a Metaphor
(2017-08-26)Digital Economics is approaching and the "new economy" will need new rules, new changes and new thinking. Digital Transformation is a step toward Digital Economy. In this article, we haven't even scratched the surface of ... -
Energy 2050: Bio-inspired Renewable Non-Fossil Liquid Fuel
(IJEBM, 2011-01)We propose an intelligent Energy Transparency model and a bio-inspired hypothetical mechanical mitochondria to optimize energy efficiency. iET seeks learning algorithms to build intelligence in order to pursue carbon-based ... -
Energy Self-Sufficiency : Catalyst for Energy Agnostic Global Economy
(2011-04-15)ABSTRACT The concept of eAGE is easy to grasp if one appreciates the analogy of the distributed ability of computing at the hands of any individual who owns an iPad or notebook computer versus the ENIAC which weighed ... -
Enforcing RFID data visibility restrictions using XACML security policies
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-11)Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology allows automatic data capture from tagged objects moving in a supply chain. This data can be very useful if it is used to answer traceability queries, however it is distributed ... -
Enhancing the dexterity of a robot hand using controlled slip
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The fragmented warehouse: Location assignment for multi-item picking
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2009-09)Warehouse operations typically aggregate identical stock keeping units (SKU) into the same storage bin for easier bookkeeping and organizing of goods. With the emergence of automatic identification and tracking technologies ... -
Future Healthcare
(CRC Press, 2010-12-15)Patients want answers, not numbers. Evidence-based medicine must have numbers to generate answers. Therefore, analysis of numbers to provide answers is the Holy Grail of healthcare professionals and its future systems. ... -
Generalized Regular Sampling of Trigonometric Polynomials and Optimal Sensor Arrangement
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010-02)We address the optimal sensor arrangement problem, which is the determination of a geometric configuration of sensors such that the mean-squared error (MSE) in the estimation of an unknown trigonometric polynomial is ... -
Guest editorial special section on RFID
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2009-01)The eight articles in this special section describe state-of-the-art technologies and tools and one application of RFID.
