In RFID Essentials Course 1, many technical concepts are presented in imaginative and sometimes humorous ways—vastly increasing the odds that you will remember! 

Chances are you’ll never forget “Medium Access Control”—how readers communicate with individual RFID tags—after you’ve seen our Slotted Aloha drama in Module 4!    

Many exercises involve practical problem solving in an organizational setting--and your imagination!  For example, in learning about RFID data sharing in Module 5, you assume the role of an employee at the retailer called "Hardware Junction."  You need to find out when a box received from your supplier, Innovative Gardening Solutions, was shipped.  After reading the electronic product code (EPC) on the box’s RFID tag, you put together a series of EPCIS standards-compliant queries, with guidance from the course’s “query machinery”,
that enable you to check your supplier’s database for the ship date.      

In Module 9, “Implementing RFID for Positive ROI”, you join a project team at the medical equipment manufacturer "Semper Firmus", responsible for measuring the costs and benefits from alternative RFID projects.  Given the application facts, you sort out the costs from the benefits for input into an ROI modeling machine, so that you can compare the two projects “on equal footing.”   You thought financial modeling was confusing, or dull?  This ROI modeling machine rocks!