The RFID Journal will award IME Professor Tali Freed its special achievement award for her years of service to PolyGAIT and the RFID Industry.
Past recipients of the special achievement award include RFID inventors, legislators, academic and industry leaders. It is awarded to a single person each year.
“My gratitude to Cal Poly, our unique Learn by Doing university, for enabling and supporting PolyGAIT; to my colleagues who made interdisciplinary collaborations so productive and fascinating; and to the amazing, intelligent, and action-oriented students who kept the PolyGAIT community innovative, engaging, and fun,” Freed said.
RFID Journal is the leading source of RFID news and insights. Their mission is to help companies use RFID and other Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to improve the way they do business.
The PolyGAIT (Global Automatic Identification Technologies) Center at Cal Poly focuses on groundbreaking research and development that leads to innovative real-world solutions. PolyGAIT is dedicated to providing the best education and training to students and industrial partners, and fostering collaboration among industry, government, and academia for the advancement of automatic identification technologies.
The PolyGAIT Center comprises a total 3,500 sq ft in the Cal Poly Research and Development Center. This space consists of a full equipment inventory room, conference room and several collaborative lab spaces. The center houses plenty of technology to enhance student learning, such as an RFID enabled diverting conveyor system, anechoic chamber, Faraday cage and inventory tracking vehicle. All facilities are secured by an RFID enabled access system.
Since opening its doors in 2004, the PolyGAIT Center and RFID Club have been responsible for sponsoring numerous (over 150) successful projects. Project topics include but are not limited to inventory and asset tracking, process analysis and improvement, software and database development, RFID vs. barcode cost-benefit analysis, and RFID cost justification.
