IEEE RFID 2026 Tutorial Session

The conference will begin with a set of tutorials to introduce background helpful for the technical sessions.  The tutorials will cover topics relevant to both passive and active radio frequency identification and sensing.

The RF in RFID

Presented by Daniel Dobkin

  • Introduction to RFID
  • Radio Communications: Basics
  • Radios, Antennas, Modulation
  • Communications Protocols
  • Sensing
  • Location
  • Real Environments

Energy Harvesting

Presented by Greg Durgin

  • Introduction to Energy Harvesting
  • Power to a UHF Tag
  • Power to an Inductive Tag
  • RFID Rectifier Circuits
  • Boosting Chip Voltage
  • The Future

Circuits and Cryptography

Presented by Brian Degnan

  • IC Design
  • Data
  • Talking Back
  • Collisions and Randomness
  • Cryptography
  • Cryptography Updates in Gen2v3

Middleware / Applications

Presented by Jeffrey Dungen

  • Protocols and Interfaces
  • Radio Decoding / Reads
  • Interpreting Payloads
  • Metadata
  • Digital Twin Lookup
  • Hyperlocal Context
  • IoT Data Transport and Storage
  • AIoT at the Edge
  • User Interfaces
  • Event-Driven Software and Applications
  • European Union DPP
RFID4n crew in Atlanta for IEEE RFID 2025