November 17, 2006
McMaster University Gets RFID Lab
McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, an institution known for several top-notch programs including medicine, recently announced the creation of the McMaster RFID Applications Lab (MRAL), to be situated in the McMaster Innovation Park in Hamilton. It's said to be the only one of its kind in Canada. An equipment management system for hospitals will be one of their first projects, to be jointly developed with Hamilton Health Sciences. MRAL itself is being supported by several companies and organizations including EPCglobal Canada, Hewlettt-Packard, Sun Microsystems, RF Code and others. [via EurekAlert]
There are so few academic RFID labs in North America, so this is excellent news for academic development of radio frequency technologies. Hopefully it will lead to an RFID study program at McMaster. As I've said many times previously, industry has to get involved and even approach universities and colleges to build more labs, offer degree courses. The predicted worldwide market for RFID for 2016 may be US$26B, but not if there are not enough qualified workers.
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