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San Antonio, November 2006
Germany, August 2006
San Antonio, November 2006
I made two presentations at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Decision
Sciences Institute, but I still had some time to take in the sights of
beautiful San Antonio.
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Garage in downtown San Antonio, featuring helical ramp. |
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Mexican flavored market, across from San Antonio's Farmers Market |
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A view of downtown San Antonio, featuring the Riverwalk |
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The San Antonio River is rather narrow, but extremely clear. |
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Riverboats ply the San Antonio River, showing tourists the downtown and Riverwalk from the water. |
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St. Joseph's Catholic Church is surrounded by a department store on three sides. |
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The Alamo is surrounded by downtown San Antonio. In this view, the Alamo can be located by the greenery peeking up among the buildings. |
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The Alamo - all that is left is the mission church and a few walls. It faces a city park. |
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This side entrance leads to the side of the mission. |
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Germany, August 2006
My trip to Germany had two purposes - I visited two Metro Group facilities to
conduct research on RFID technology and in Baden-Baden, I presented a paper on the BWI
garage at a conference.
Metro Group Innovation Center in Neuss, Germany:
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RFID sorter. |
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RFID conveyer with picking verification. Items are picked based on list, and contents are verified using RFID. |
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Conveyer belt with RFID sensors. Bins with incorrect items are automatically rerouted to be corrected. |
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RFID label maker. |
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Pick to voice equipment allows operators to pick items without paper documents. |
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Close-up of console for RFID portal reading goods passing through. |
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RFID textile application - garments being sorted. |
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RFID textile application. Using information on RFID tags, items can be quickly sorted and directed to appropriate loading locations. |
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Sample case of RFID applications. |
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RFID use in department store fitting room. RFID tags enable interrogation of database to find complementary items or locate other sizes or colors. |
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Metro Group
Future Store in Rheinburg, Germany:
The Future Store is a testing site for various types of supermarket
innovations, including RFID. Metro Group has several supermarket
formats - this store is an Extra format, but a little larger than most
Extras due to the various innovations being tested.
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Video displays advertising store merchandise. |
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Rotating ads are projected on the floor in the wine aisle. |
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Display of RFID-tagged Gillette razors. |
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Mobile forklift-mounted RFID reader used for storeroom in back of Future Store. |
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Shampoo display reads RFID code to determine which shampoo infomercial to display. |
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Customers can scan barcodes on merchandise to accumulate total charges for purchases. |
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Smart scales can recognise different types of fruits and vegetables. |
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Baden-Baden:
The Symposium on Systems Research in the Arts: Music, Environmental
Design, and the Choreography of Space - part of the 18th Annual
Conference on Systems Research, Informatics, and Cybernetics:
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