OUR EXPERTISE

RFID Advanced Research is an academic research group at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University. The research group is founded by Dr Ming Lim. 

We are actively supporting companies in assessing their operations for, not just, RFID adoption, but also in enhancing economic competitiveness in their relative business markets in production and supply chain operations. We welcome any form of collaboration with companies through a range of funded schemes available, as well as student projects. Please visit the Aston's Business Partnership Unit for further information on funding schemes. We are also seeking association with academic institutions through collaborative research funding.

1. Explore and Justify innovative, value-added, and long-term benefits
   for businesses and their customers, and


2. Establish strong collaboration partnership with industry and academic institutions

The core activity of the Aston RFID Advanced Research is to explore new RFID functions to enhance the competitiveness in the supply chain and manufacturing to achieve efficiency and cost-effectiveness under dynamic changing environment. The value of RFID is its ability to enhance the quality of information collected in terms of its utilisation, timeliness and accuracy. The benefits are only realised when the information is turned into action. Our focus is to utilise RFID information intelligently to achieve business benefits beyond those that are currently proven on the market.

We have been supporting companies from the manufacturing and logistics sectors in the adoption of RFID, as well as in enhancing their production and supply chain competitiveness.

We have also established an interest group, which consists of eight organisations across different industry sectors and countries. The research group is an associate member of the EU RACE networkRFID. Dr Ming Lim is a member of IEEE professional association and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK), and an associate member of Universities' Transport Study Group (UTSG). The research group has successfully secured a number of funded projects, and has project collaborators from various industry sectors. A number of on-going projects are funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPRSC). 

We are actively supporting companies in assessing their operations for, not just, RFID adoption, but also in enhancing economic competitiveness in their relative business markets in production and supply chain operations. We welcome any form of collaboration with companies through a range of funded schemes available, as well as student projects. We are also seeking association with academic institutions through collaborative research funding.

If you are interested in collaborating with us, please contact Dr Ming Lim.