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Selected RuBee (IEEE 1902.1) White Papers





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Advanced Inventory and Materials Management at Pantex
June 2011, Published by US Department of Energy, White Paper -- Leesa L. Duckworth, B&W Pantex, LLC
This five-year pilot study utilized a stage-gate approach for the identification, analysis, and performance testing of auto-id technology, which could provide a viable foundation for an automated material management system. Over the five-year period, three phases of evaluation were performed, during which a large quantity of various auto-id technologies, including: assorted RF technologies of varying frequencies, infrared, acoustic, magnetic field, and optical tracking technologies, were evaluated against environmental performance criteria designed to simulate the Pantex operating environment. These technologies were measure and compared, ultimately resulting in the identification of a single technology which after extensive testing, appears to hold the capability to meet all of the criteria for a potential materials management
foundation.
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Advanced Inventory and Materials Management at Pantex (Arabic) June 2011, Published by US Department of Energy, White Paper -- Leesa L. Duckworth, B&W Pantex, LLC, Translated by Visible Assets.
This five-year pilot study utilized a stage-gate approach for the identification, analysis, and performance testing of auto-id technology, which could provide a viable foundation for an automated material management system. Over the five-year period, three phases of evaluation were performed, during which a large quantity of various auto-id technologies, including: assorted RF technologies of varying frequencies, infrared, acoustic, magnetic field, and optical tracking technologies, were evaluated against environmental performance criteria designed to simulate the Pantex operating environment. These technologies were measure and compared, ultimately resulting in the identification of a single technology which after extensive testing, appears to hold the capability to meet all of the criteria for a potential materials management
foundation.
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RuBee® (IEEE 1902.1) provides real-time automated visibility, and the highest possible security of Mission Critical Assets -- Mission Critical Assets (MCA) are assets that simply can not be lost or stolen, worth far more on the street or in hands of terrorists than the cost to replace. Visible Assets, Inc. (Visible® www.visibleassets.com) provides automated MCA visibility and security using three important security layers:

Security Layer 1: Real-Time, Storage Physical Inventory. Assets in storage in a warehouse on racks, shelves or weapons in armory racks or other secure facility have RuBee wireless tags embedded or attached. RuBee enabled smart racks and smart shelves turn the steel in these racks into an antenna, and Visible software applications do daily or hourly audit trails of each item and report inventory and asset status.

Security Layer 2: Issuance Check Out/In. When an asset is removed from inventory, we know it has been removed from shelf, but ownership has to be transferred from a “storekeeper” to a new owner, a solder or guard or asset guardian. This is done using ruggedized Apple iPads known as gRaps® that have a RuBee embedded reader. Tags are read as the asset is passed across the check out counter.

Security Layer 3: Exit/Entry Detection. When the asset leaves the facility RuBee portal platforms provide identification detection and alarms using DoorGuard® and GateGuard®. Both detect RuBee enabled assets and IDs as a person passes though a door or gate, on foot or in a vehicle. These systems have passed many objective User Acceptance Tests (UAT) with 100% detection of assets even if hidden inside a steel case or vehicle.
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Leveraging Visibility Technology for Business Applications
January 2010, Published by Oracle RuBee White Paper
With increasing global competition, businesses are facing on-going challenges in collecting and managing their highly mobile, expensive and most critical Assets. Enterprises who have visibility into their operations and processes can best adapt to the ever changing business environment and have a much better chance to be successful in the age of globalization. “Visibility” technology is an enabler that allows enterprises to have a clear view or visibility into location and presence of their products and critical assets that are important to their day-to-day operations. OARDC has developed an integration toolkit to provide an “out-of-the-box” solution in developing and connecting your business applications to meet your visibility requirements.
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Oracle RuBee Toolkit
January 2010, Oracle Data Sheet for RuBee Products
In January 2009, the IEEE announced a new wireless standard, “RuBee” (IEEE 1902.1). RuBee wireless solutions deliver on the promises that were made, but not kept, by other wireless technologies such as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). RuBee networks consist of wireless tags, readers, and routers - but RuBee is not RFID. RuBee technology is a bidirectional, on-demand, peer-to-peer, radiating, and transceiver protocol system that has a number of key capabilities:
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Oracle Introduction to RuBee
January 2010, Published by Oracle a RuBee White Paper
The outlook of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology has failed to deliver and meet the expectations demanded by Enterprises today. RFID has been largely unsuccessful to consistently track where all of your assets are in real-time with 100% accuracy. Some of these issues are based upon physics (e.g. radio waves), which are affected by just about everything surrounding us. Many environmental factors influence RFID performance, such as: steel, water, people and electrical noise sources are just a few examples. However, after 20 years of research & development investment, a new technology called RuBee has been introduced to the market. RuBee can read through steel, water and overcome harsh environments which RFID cannot even attempt to address. New RuBee enabled Visibility systems will forever alter the manner in which information is collected, integrated, accessed and reported. All too often, enterprises rely on manual processes and a significant amount of time and effort to describe, verify and document information about the status and quantity of their assets on-hand. The application and deployment of RuBee Technology virtually eliminates the need for endless and redundant manual documentation we observe today.
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RuBee (IEEE 1902.1) – The Physics Behind, Real-Time, High Security Wireless Asset Visibility Networks in Harsh Environments.
Paper Presented in Taiwan at the International Security Conference September 2010, sponsored by IEEE.
RuBee (IEEE 1902.1), an active, long wavelength (131khz), packet based, on-demand, protocol was designed for real-time asset visibility networks in harsh environments. RuBee tags have a 5-10 year battery life, optional sensors, a range of 1 to 50 feet, can be 1” x 1” to credit card size and 2 mm thick. RuBee tags work near steel and water, typically produce about 50 milli-gauss of magnetic signal (H) and almost no measurable electric field (E = 0.4 nano-watts). RuBee has no known human safety or intrinsic safety risks. The voltage for RuBee magnetic fields drop 1/R3 and the voltage for conventional wireless RF electric fields drop 1/R. That means, unlike wireless RF systems, RuBee can provide a controlled Physical Security Layer with no eavesdropping, tempest or target risk. RuBee tags also provide a Packet Security Layer using AES, or public private key authentication, and several other optional encryption protocols.
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Customer User Acceptance Test For GateGuard Installation
Tests shows five ID's can be read in moving vehicle and all assets detected 100% of the time. Customer's name removed.
GateGuard is a Visible Assets product, that is a special Muster Plus exit/entry security and access control configuration. GateGuard discovers and detects assets and people entering or exiting a secure facility inside a vehicle. Typical systems can read RuBee tags contained in vehicles on people (ID Tags) or on mission critical assets. Typical maximum vehicle speed is 5 Km/Hr, with road widths of 18 feet, and read limits for ID tags is 5-7. Any assets that have not been properly checked out (illegal or hidden assets) that have a RuBee asset tag will be detected, and any assets that have been properly checked out (legal assets) will also be detected. Additional details may be found on RuBee Portal Tab.
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Frost & Sullivan Award
2007 Award for Innovation and Excellence.
The 2007 Frost & Sullivan North American Technology Innovation of the Year Award
in the field of supply chain visibility solutions goes to Visible Assets, Inc. (VAI) in
recognition of the company’s efforts in developing RuBee, an innovative new
magnetic frequency-based identification and tracking technology. RuBee is a
significant advancement in supply chain asset identification and tracking as it
represents a compact, low-power, lower-cost visibility solution in areas of high
electromagnetic interference. The technology compares favorably to contemporary
technologies such as RFID, and has some advantages over current RFID-based
solutions. Unlike traditional RFID tags, which operate at high to ultrahigh frequency,
Rubee tags are capable of transmitting data at a very low frequency that falls
completely within the magnetic spectrum.