Symposium on “RFID Technologies & Internet of Things” in the frame of the 21th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2013), technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc), will be held in Split and Primosten on 18-20 September, 2013.

The main goal of this symposium is to present and discuss recent advances in the area of the Internet of Things, where innovative wireless technologies like RFID, NFC, real-time localization and sensor networks (WSN) are becoming research topics more and more interesting for both academia and industry.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding and in IEEEXplore. Furthermore, they will be indexed in SCOPUS. Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their manuscripts for publication in a Special Issue of the Journal of Communications Software and Systems (JCOMSS).

We cordially invite speakers who wish to present original papers on the following subjects, but not limited to these, associated with the following topics:

RFID hardware components

- Performance evaluation of tags and readers

- Tag and reader anyennas design

- Protocols

- Integration of sensors with RFID

- Near Field Communication (NFC)


Wireless Sensor Networks

- ZigBee and Ultra Wide Band (UWB)

- Energy consumption minimization

- Monitoring and Localization systems

- Integration of heterogeneous WSNs


Middleware and Standards

- EPCglobal network architecture

- Security & Privacy

- Integration with Internet protocols

- 6LoWPAN/CoAP

- Test bed and performance evaluation


RFID and WSN case studies, field trials, and industrial Applications

- Manufacturing, Logistic and Supply Chain

- Micro-payments by NFC

- Pharmaceutical and Healthcare

- Agro-food

- Animal Tracking systems

- Building Automation

- Smart Building, Smart Cities and Smart GRID


RFID in Biomedicine

- Implantable sensor tag

- Potential effects on molecular structures and human tissue

- Interferences with electronic devices


Conference Secretary: Petar Solic, University of Split, Croatia (softcom@fesb.hr)
Submission of Manuscripts: Please follow the general submission requirements of SoftCOM2013 (http://www.fesb.hr/SoftCOM).