JAS Technologies (Poland)

The paper presents the application of the RFID technology in the international system of the European Union (EU) border control. The proposed architecture consists of computerized portable units (equipped with specialized devices for data acquisition) carried by border officers and the server cloud infrastructure. Among other details of the proposed system (such as QR codes or images of people trying to enter EU), RFID information is critical for the border control procedure. It must be read from passports and confronted against local and remote data, stored in the central database The paper presents the general architecture of the proposed border control system. The structure of the application, responsible for connecting the RFID reader with the portable computer and communicating with the Internet database via the Web Services technology is presented. Introduced use cases show functionality of the system, focusing on the acquisition and analysis of the RFID information.

After decades of research and development, Marine Controlled Source ElectroMagnetics (MCSEM) has come into the application phase for oil and gas exploration. However, presently 3D modeling of MCSEM is far from practical with simple models and much computing time. Based on a forward modeling study of 3D frequency-domain MCSEM over a complicated target body and its sensitivity analysis, we derive a method which can delineate the edges of the resistive reservoir. We use the second derivative of the magnitude versus offset (MVO) curve to define the resistive reservoir edges. For the air-wave-dominated far field zone, we suggest using the less affected apparent resistivities in order to improve the adaptability of the method.