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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SEPTEMBER 14th and will be postponed to a later date.

Please contact us for more information at rfid2011@lsec.be

Updated Program

On September 14th, LSEC are organizing a day on applications for short range wireless technologies such as RFID and NFC.
Taken in the first place from a technology perspective, the idea is to present a multitude of applications and their respective challenges and opportunities that these technologies today bring into the market.
With a specific perspective on security in these evolving small wireless technologies. This is a unique event in Belgium, bringing together local specialists and experts from France, UK and other countries.

Introduction

RFID, Radio-Frequency Identification is a series of technologies describing a form of identification, using a wireless radio signal. Typically used with the purpose of tracking, tracing and identifying goods, increasingly it is also being used for people and constantly evolving both passive and active tags. Various companies are using RFID technologies for many different applications, from Wal Mart, public libraries, Airbus, public transportation and international passports; using goods identification for simple pricing, to access control to controlling identities.

According to market research organization IDTechEx, in 2010 the value of the entire RFID market was estimated to be $5.63 billion, up from $5.03 billion in 2009. This included tags, readers and software/services for RFID cards, labels, fobs and all other form factors. $3.27 billion of the total $5.63 billion is spent on non car like structures - from RFID labels to active tags.

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More RFID tags than people on the planet

The biggest opportunity : item tagging, moving from price tags to bar codes to radio frequencies in identifiers
The biggest opportunity for RFID is the item level tagging of all things. This ultimately calls for a very low cost tag, something that some printed and chipless RFID technologies have already demonstrated or have the potential to achieve. Interestingly, few of the biggest chip RFID suppliers are working on these technologies. Instead, printers, packagers and electronics and materials companies are leading development, some seeing the ultra low cost RFID tag as just the beginning - with integrated ultra low cost components such as displays, sensors and power to come.

The RFID tagging of apparel is now the largest and fastest growing application of RFID in retailing, the retail supply chain and associated industries. About 100 organizations are tagging apparel in trials and rollouts. Just two - taken together - will buy 500 million tags yearly soon. Analysis indicates that systems and tag business concerned with apparel RFID will grow at double the rate of the overall RFID market through the next ten years.

RFID in the form of tickets used for transit will demand 380 million tags in 2010. The tagging of animals (such as pigs, sheep and pets) is now substantial as it becomes a legal requirement in many more territories, with 178 million tags being used for this sector in 2010. This is happening in regions such as China and Australasia. In total, 2.31 billion tags will be sold in 2010 versus 1.98 billion in 2009. Most of that growth is from passive UHF RFID labels.

The evolutionary landscape of active RFID

The term Active RFID incorporates many technologies including Real Time Locating Systems, Ubiquitous Sensor Networks and Active RFID with ZigBee, RuBee, Ultra Wide Band and WiFi. Active RFID, where a battery drives the tag, is responsible for an increasing percentage of the money spent in the burgeoning RFID market. It will rise from 13% of the total RFID market in 2010 to 25% in 2020, meaning a huge $6.02 billion market. If we include the market for cell phone RFID modules (another form of active RFID), the market is an additional $0.18 billion in 2010 and $1.6 billion in 2020.

Near Field Communication (NFC), and particularly RFID enabled mobile phones, with contactless smart cards and tickets are now reaching the mass market. Are these forms of RFID with advantages and disadvantages and different development paths, or is NFC a different market with more advanced types of applications and services? Expectations are that there will continue to be rapid growth of at least three alternatives for at least ten years. This follows 800 million Chinese acquiring contactless national ID cards in four years and over 70 million Japanese adopting RFID enabled, NFC compatible phones in three years. These were two of the fastest rollouts of electronic products in human history.

Near Field Communication (NFC), by which electronic devices communicate if held within a few centimeters of each other, is underpinned by global ISO specifications. It has attracted the attention of the largest telcos, transport companies, banks and others and new trials are frequently announced all over the world. Many trials confirm that we are all like the Japanese in seeking the convenience that such phones can offer. 
With the fading SIM-cards, throug NFC phones, suddenly Telecommunication Industries are being empowered once more for banking, wallet, ticketing and loyalty applications. Banks are cautious about letting their cards be mimicked by the phones and transport operators are cautious about the ticketing option being loaded.

Program Overview

During this seminar, we are aiming to bring some of the most interesting experts and applications around the table, focusing amongst other on business opportunities and challenges. These could include systems integrations, but also security. Security being one of the applications specifically sought for by short range wireless technologies, we will amongst other challenge the various systems and technologies and indicate that also in this domain, security could better be considered in the design stage.

Some of the following companies and applications have been identified :

• Real-Time Anonymised ID at the point of requirement - a challenge-response approach for an Authority to attest the authenticity of documents and certificates, by Techmatics, Janusz Adamson
• Industrial Identification, RFID Inc, Graham V. Smith – Vice President Europe
An overview of applications for RFID in vehicle identification, warehouses, conveyor belts, meat production facilities, AGV, factory floors and other industrial environments.
• Parallel Solutions, Applications for tracking and tracing of firefighters, children, patients , assets and records
Maintag, Readers, Tags, Low level management software, and other tools for an RFID environment
• NFC Projects in Caen, an overview of private and public proof of concept projects (Caen NFC City, Pay Mobile, Contactless Parking, Normandy Living Lab, ….),
key learning and developments, by Pôle TES
• RFID Security : Issues and Measures, by KU Leuven, COSIC, Dave Singhelee,
• NFC technologies and applications, by NXP Technologies, Phil Teuwen
• Some experiences from practical security challenges, KAHO St Lieven
• NFC and next generation RFID, an evolutionary landscape
• From chip and card to application and everything in between, resolving challenges for Systems Integration, Management and Maintenance Challenges
• Testing and controlling RFID and NFC developments and applications
• GloPass, the integrated solution for ID management, event management
• Integrating personal ID and Mobile ID Management, the challenge ahead
• …

Privacy in RFID and NFC, research activities from MSEC at KaHo St-Lieven, by Vincent Naessens, KAHO Sint-Lieven

This talk will give an overview of research activities in the domain of mobile security at MSEC, KAHO Sint-Lieven.  The research at MSEC is often conducted in collaboration with SMEs, large companies and governmental institutions in Flanders.  Hence, many cases originate from real challenges in industry and government.  The MSEC group works around emergent technologies and application domains for smartphones.  For instance, tamperproof modules (like secure elements and smart micro SD
cards) are used to increase the security level of mobile applications, terminals are extended with trusted platform modules to increase trust in the ecosystem, privacy-enhancing technologies (like anonymous credentials, local privacy policy enforcement modules...) lead to a better privacy level in existing applications… These technologies are relevant in many application domains: personalized health care, advanced physical access control systems, protection of money transfer cycle, supply chain and logistics ...  This talk will mainly focus on the new opportunities of secure solutions that exploit short range communication capabilities of smartphones (like optical communication and near-field communication). More information and an overview of research projects and activities at MSEC can be found on the following url:
http://www.msec.be/

About: Vincent Naessens is head of the research group “Security and Mobility (MSEC)” at KAHO Sint-Lieven since October 2006. The research group focuses on modelling secure, mobile environments. More specifically, his research focuses on e-ID technologies, privacy-enhancing technologies and the integration of these technologies in concrete applications.
Mobile environments often deal with resource-limited devices. The latter often has an impact on the building blocks and technologies that are selected to fulfill security, privacy and trust requirements. Special attention goes to architectural design of such environments. The research group often collaborates with other industrial and academic partners such as DistriNet, Dept. Computer Science at KULeuven and Dramco, Dept. Industrial Engineering at KAHO Sint-Lieven.
He received a master’s degree in Computer Science at the K.U.Leuven University in 1999. Immediately after his studies, he started working as a researcher in the DistriNet research group.  The topics of research he has been working on include: analysis, modelling and design of anonymous applications (anonymous communication, anonymous mail, anonymous publication systems, ...) and the study of techniques for controlled anonymity in various applications. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science at the faculty of Applied Engineering, K.U.Leuven in June 2006.

Types of applications discussed :

Passive RFID
• Drugs
• Other Healthcare
• Retail apparel
• Consumer goods
• Tires
• Postal
• Books
• Manufacturing parts, tools
• Archiving (documents/samples)
• Military
• Retail CPG Pallet/case
• Smart cards/payment key fobs
• Smart tickets
• Air baggage
• Conveyances/Rollcages/ULD/Totes
• Animals/Livestock
• Vehicles
• People (excluding other sectors)
• Passport page/secure documents
• Other tag applications

Active RFID / battery-assisted
• Pharma/Healthcare
• Cold retail supply chain
• Consumer goods
• Postal
• Manufacturing parts, tools
• Archiving (samples)
• Military
• Retail CPG Pallet/case
• Shelf Edge Labels
• Conveyances/Rollcages/ULD/Totes
• Vehicles
• People (excluding other sectors)
• Car clickers
• Other tag applications

Practical Details :

Wednesday, September 14th , 2011
Brussels, IBM Seminar Centre
Seminar and exposition
Free to attend, upon registration prior to May 30th; from June 1st and onwards, registration fee of 150 €
Free for LSEC Members and partners (European Security Innovation Network, Pôle TES, OASIS, Agoria, ISSA, ISACA, …) upon membership identification.

For more information, sponsoring and practical details please contact rfid2011@lsec.be.

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