1.
The Missing Link to iOT
Computing: RAIN RFID
Michael Hrabina
Executive Vice President
FEIG Electronics, Inc.
www.feig-electronics.com

2.
“Take a lot of unrelated and minimally related things
such as passive RFID, Zigbee, wireless sensor networks
and hobbyist micro-controllers and give them a grand
new name such as the Internet of Things. Instantly you
can claim it is a substantial market and set to be much
bigger in the future if only because you will shovel other
things into the definition. Sell it all as ”The Next Big
Thing”. You can unload a lot of reports and
consultancy on the back of that.”
Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman IDTechEx

3.
Nailing the definition of The Internet of Things
“The Internet of Things uses smart objects with their
own IP addresses, operating and even collaborating
without human involvement”
Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman
IDTechEx

4.
IoT depends on wide variety of technologies

5.
Five Generations of computers
Era Technology Programming
1940-1956 Vacuum tube Machine code
1956- 1963 Transistors Assembly Language
1964-1971 Integrated Circuits Proprietary Operating
Systems
1971-Present Microprocessors Standard Operating
Systems
Beyond Massively Parallel
Processing
Quantum Computation
The next generation is Artificial Intelligence

6.
Progression of computer users
Users Entity
Scientists Governments
Engineers University / Large Corporations
Skilled workers Business
Mass Population Home Users
Things Everywhere
Internet of Things is part of the fifth generation

7.
AI requires many inputs
• Voice recognition
• Pattern recognition
• Environmental sensors
• Automatic Identification
RAIN RFID is the ID for IoT

8.
RAIN RFID perfectly suited AI input
• Extremely fast
• Non-line of sight data capture
• Simultaneous capture of large
numbers of transponders
• Excellent read range
• Small size, variety of form factors
• Combined environmental sensors

9.
RAIN RFID closes the gap to the next
Generation of computing