Environmental Monitoring and Logistics Management

Funding Support from Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF)

ITF Project Title RFID-Enabled Sensing Technologies for Real-time Environmental Monitoring and Risk Management

ITF Project Reference ITP/035/12LP

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Hong Kong R&D Centre Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies

Implementation Schedule January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2014 [2 years]

Project Cost HK$10,529,100

Project Coordinator Prof. Ke-li Wu

Administrative Coordinator Prof. Chun Hung Cheng

Investigators Prof. Ke-li Wu
Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK
Prof. Chun Hung Cheng
Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, CUHK
Dr. Tobun Dorbin Ng
Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, CUHK
Mr. Dacheng Wei
Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK

R&D Support from CUHK Research Groups

Microwave Lab Microwave & Wireless Communication Laboratory
It is a research lab in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The lab's research areas include MMIC & RFIC design, novel RF techniques for high linearity transceiver design, electromagnetic analysis, mutli-chip-module technologies, RFID technologies, and advanced microwave circuit & antenna design techniques.

Logitsco Center for Logistics Technologies and Supply Chain Optimization (Logitsco)
Logitsco is a cross-disciplinary center established by the Faculty of Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in collaboration with Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and other industrial partners.

RDSCML Research and Development Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics Management (RDSCML)
Established in 2005, the R&D Center for Supply Chain and Logistics Management is a joint center between the Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University.

FSQ Food Safety and Quality Management Networks Research Group
The FSQ research group is interested in finding technological, systematic, and business solutions to trace and monitor food supply chain in order to provide better information analysis for food safety and quality. Some contaminating possbilities can be automatically detected by analyzing patterns and environmental conditions of different supply chain activities.

HRM Hospital Risk Management
The Hospital Risk Management research group is interested in finding technological, systematic, and business solutions to track and monitor how infectious diseases are spread inside hospitals and healthcare facilities, within and across local communities, and toward pandemic level in order to provide better information analysis and risk assessment for safeguarding public health.

User Support

AMC Air Mail Centre, Hongkong Post
The Air Mail Centre at the Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok is equipped with machines for automating the sorting of packets and parcels, and for handling airline containers. The Track and Trace System, installed at all counter offices, delivery offices and sorting centres, computerises the tracking and tracing of Speedpost and Local CourierPost, as well as registered, recorded delivery and insured mail and parcels. User requirement studies and pilot system implementation for the RFID Cart Tracking System (RCTS) will be carried out in this Hongkong Post Air Mail Centre.

HKMH Hong Kong Museum of History, Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD)
The Hong Kong Museum of History is a museum which preserves Hong Kong's historical and cultural heritage. The permanent home of the Hong Kong Museum of History, with a gross floor area of 17,500 m2, is housed in a new building constructed at a cost of HK$390M and funded by the Hong Kong SAR Government. It is a comprehensive state-of-the-art museum designed by the P&T Architects and Engineers Ltd., based on the architectural concept of Mr E. Verner Johnson. User requirement studies and pilot system implementation for an RFID sensor system in exhibition halls will be carried out there.

HKFA Hong Kong Film Archive, Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD)
The Hong Kong Film Archive building is a world-class facility. Five-storey high, its net floor area of 7,500 square meters is structurally divided into two big partitions. One side of the building is dedicated to storage, which has independent air conditioning system with dehumidification and acidic gaseous removal functions. The other side is used for screening, exhibition, offices and other public access functions. User requirement studies and pilot system implementation for an RFID sensor system in storage and exhibition will be carried out there.

ITF Project Title	RFID-Enabled Sensing Technologies for Real-time Environmental Monitoring and Risk Management
ITF Project Reference	ITP/035/12LP
ITF Web Reference	Follow this ITF Project Reference Search link, then search with this project reference: ITP/035/12LP
Hong Kong R&D Centre	Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies
Implementation Schedule	January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2014 [2 years]
Project Cost	HK$10,529,100
Project Coordinator	Prof. Ke-li Wu
Administrative Coordinator	Prof. Chun Hung Cheng
Investigators	Prof. Ke-li Wu Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK Prof. Chun Hung Cheng Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, CUHK Dr. Tobun Dorbin Ng Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, CUHK Mr. Dacheng Wei Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK

Microwave Lab	Microwave & Wireless Communication Laboratory It is a research lab in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The lab's research areas include MMIC & RFIC design, novel RF techniques for high linearity transceiver design, electromagnetic analysis, mutli-chip-module technologies, RFID technologies, and advanced microwave circuit & antenna design techniques.
Logitsco	Center for Logistics Technologies and Supply Chain Optimization (Logitsco) Logitsco is a cross-disciplinary center established by the Faculty of Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in collaboration with Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and other industrial partners.
RDSCML	Research and Development Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics Management (RDSCML) Established in 2005, the R&D Center for Supply Chain and Logistics Management is a joint center between the Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University.
FSQ	Food Safety and Quality Management Networks Research Group The FSQ research group is interested in finding technological, systematic, and business solutions to trace and monitor food supply chain in order to provide better information analysis for food safety and quality. Some contaminating possbilities can be automatically detected by analyzing patterns and environmental conditions of different supply chain activities.
HRM	Hospital Risk Management The Hospital Risk Management research group is interested in finding technological, systematic, and business solutions to track and monitor how infectious diseases are spread inside hospitals and healthcare facilities, within and across local communities, and toward pandemic level in order to provide better information analysis and risk assessment for safeguarding public health.

AMC	Air Mail Centre, Hongkong Post The Air Mail Centre at the Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok is equipped with machines for automating the sorting of packets and parcels, and for handling airline containers. The Track and Trace System, installed at all counter offices, delivery offices and sorting centres, computerises the tracking and tracing of Speedpost and Local CourierPost, as well as registered, recorded delivery and insured mail and parcels. User requirement studies and pilot system implementation for the RFID Cart Tracking System (RCTS) will be carried out in this Hongkong Post Air Mail Centre.
HKMH	Hong Kong Museum of History, Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) The Hong Kong Museum of History is a museum which preserves Hong Kong's historical and cultural heritage. The permanent home of the Hong Kong Museum of History, with a gross floor area of 17,500 m2, is housed in a new building constructed at a cost of HK$390M and funded by the Hong Kong SAR Government. It is a comprehensive state-of-the-art museum designed by the P&T Architects and Engineers Ltd., based on the architectural concept of Mr E. Verner Johnson. User requirement studies and pilot system implementation for an RFID sensor system in exhibition halls will be carried out there.
HKFA	Hong Kong Film Archive, Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) The Hong Kong Film Archive building is a world-class facility. Five-storey high, its net floor area of 7,500 square meters is structurally divided into two big partitions. One side of the building is dedicated to storage, which has independent air conditioning system with dehumidification and acidic gaseous removal functions. The other side is used for screening, exhibition, offices and other public access functions. User requirement studies and pilot system implementation for an RFID sensor system in storage and exhibition will be carried out there.