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Introduction
The radio frequency identication (RFID) and auto-identication (Auto-ID) or RAID
laboratories were established in 2011 at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). The
laboratories are located in two distinct facilities, 413 Woolf Hall (RFID laboratories) and
309 Engineering Labs Building (Auto-ID laboratories), and provide faculty and gradu-
ate and undergraduate students access to equipment for conducting research. Previous
research performed by the principal investigator (PI) from NASA, the Department of
Transportation, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided additional
industrial equipment that allows f ...