The LSCM R&D Centre undertakes a wide range of industry focused research projects and strives to facilitate the adoption of LSCM’s technologies by the relevant industries. The Centre thus endeavours to serve as an interface between academia and the logistics and supply chain management industry for partnership and licensing opportunities, as well as for the dissemination of knowledge to the relevant industries through a variety of business development services and marketing activities. For more information, please contact us on licensing@lscm.hk.

This project has developed novel UHF smart shelf reader antennas which are suitable for scanning books, boxes and fabric objects. It employs the traveling wave theory and planar antenna design principles to implement ultra-thin configurations, and the reconfigurability allows a lower manufacture cost and a more flexible application. This novel reconfigurable UHF RFID reader antenna system is designed for new smart shelf technologies. Project deliverables include Reconfigurable Smart Shelf UHF Antenna Design and Optimization Design Software.

This project provides a reliable and high precision augmentation system to support the technology advances in surveying, logistics operation, Geographic Information System (GIS) applications, and location-based services in Hong Kong. And it works with the Beidou system developed by China. In China, the GPS RTK networks have been established in all the major cities and provinces, and the technologies developed in this project can be directly applied to those networks. Project deliverables include RTCM Conversion Engine, Reference DGNSS Mobile App (Local Correction), DGNSS Correction Engine, DGNSS Gateway and Reference DGNSS Mobile App (Server Correction).

In this project, LSCM is committed both (1) hardware development which is a tamper-resistant strap lock to be integrated onto reusable active RFID tags, and (2) software development which is the establishment of a comprehensive management and control system to support the use of the active RFID tags for baby monitoring in the hospital environment. The results were properly tested in a baby ward at Hong Kong Adventist Hospital. Through this project LSCM leverages the capabilities of local RFID equipment vendors and enriches them with a specific and affordable tag to be used in the hospital environment to eliminate the risk of baby abduction. Project deliverables include Tag and Tamper-resistant Strap Design (Baby / Child size), Reader Design, Monitoring System Software and Mobile App, Reader Network Monitoring Tool and Tag Testing Console.