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Research Affiliate and Consultant


MIT Auto-ID Labs
Email: s_miles AT mit DOT edu;  Phone (978) 884-0214

http://autoid.mit.edu/

http://autoid.mit.edu/CS/blogs/people/archive/2009/01/04/stephen-miles.aspx


MIT Geospatial Data Center

Engineering Systems Division

http://geospatial.mit.edu/SmarterSoftwareforaBetterWorld/


MIT Senseable City Laboratory
http://senseable.mit.edu/enel/


Adjunct Research Professor and Consultant for European Commission FP7 project:
CASSANDRA - Common Assessment and Analysis of Risk in global supply chains.

Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC),

http://www.zlc.edu.es/default.aspx?info=0002E8

MIT Center for Transportation Logistics

Global SCALE (Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence) Network,

http://ctl.mit.edu/about_us/mit_global_scale_network_zaragoza_logistics_center




RESEARCH: 


Stephen Miles is a Research Affiliate at the MIT Auto-ID Labs, and a Principal Consultant in Auto-ID Serialization and Event Management Systems.  His primary research interests are in leveraging Automated Information Data Capture (AIDC) advanced wireless telemetry and web technologies to communicate about events in shared business processes.  At MIT Steve lead the Future ENEL project to design a Safety Event Management system for a $4B Euro (4000) worker plant construction project in Slovakia with functions including an open framework for integration of real-time telemetry data, generation of a steam of standardized metadata associated with the content source, and design and demonstration of an open scaleable system that supports queries and event/alert notification based on rule sets.  The Future ENEL project is collaboration between the Senseable City Laboratory, the Media Laboratory and Aero-Astro at MIT.

 

At a more abstract level, introducing standardized metadata can be seen as restoring structured data to the web.  Today when we create web portals to publish information that has been stored as structured data objects in relational databases, the use of HTML, an unstructured language, eviscerates the very data relationships that we had to share.  Video is now the largest and fastest growing data source in enterprises and over the internet, computers have not been able to add value to the indexing and retrieval of this information.  In current research with Brian Anthony, PhD,  in the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, computational videography is used to abstract scientific events from synchronized high speed video and sensor inputs.

 
CONSULTING:
 
As an entrepreneurial leader and visionary with a passion for building successful network services, Stephen Miles track record includes concrete accomplishments in customer driven product development, marketing, sales, customer service, mergers & acquisitions and business development.   His experience includes two private companies and two venture backed start-ups in the Boston area. He now assists technology companies with strategic planning, innovation acceleration, rapid strategy implementation and performance improvement initiatives including:
  • Taking on part-time roles of VP Business Development or VP Marketing to rapidly plan strategic initiatives or business model transformations.
  • Leading strategy review projects and facilitating workshops from the ideation stage through to operationalization.
  • Leading the implementation of go to market strategies including oem partners and channel management to achieve the highest ROI.
  • Creating new business models and services plans.

Stephen Miles background includes migrating legacy data systems to secure web applications platforms including Voice over IP, MPLS Quality of Service and web services tagging infrastructure. Extensive international experience collaborating with industry, government and academic interests in creating services environments around serialized ID's for products (serialized linear and 2D barcodes, RFID et al) and for people.  Interested in opportunities to integrate social networking dynamic and "bottoms up" knowledge creation with proprietary secure distributed computing infrastructure required to manage information about real things such as product histories and patient records.


Do you wish you had access to someone who has successfully faced the challenges of growing technology based services businesses? Click here[https://my.timedriver.com/BZ5DN] to schedule an introductory call or email him directly: s_miles AT mit.edu.

 


  • Consulting project with greatest impact:

Universal Postal Union Advanced Electronics Service Group - RFID architecture for next generation secure Global Mail tracking System with Richard Wishart of Delivery Management Ltd. for largest commercial RFID deployment in the world (10,000 readers in 50 countries). Akio Miyaji, the UPU’s coordinator for quality of service, won the industry leadership award at the ID WORLD International Congress in Milan, Italy 2009.
http://www.upu.int/news_centre/2009/en/2009-1106_akio_miyaji_remporte_un_prix_en_leadership.html



PUBLICATIONS

 

  • Awards and Honors 

        "OpenChart: Charting Quantitative Properties in LOD"  Filip Zembowicz,  David Opolon, Stephen Miles

        Linked Data Application Competition; Honorable Mention (Second Prize),

        MIT IAP Linked Data Workshop, Distributed Information Group, CSAIL
       
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2010/LinkedData/Overview.html


        SAP International Research Forum 2007, “Transformation of Business," 

        Schloss Reinhartshausen, Eltville, Germany;

        http://www.international-research-forum.com/WIKI_2007/index.php/Stephen_Miles


SAP University Thought Leadership White Paper; award and honorarium; 2005; “Locating the EPC Read Event,” David     Brock, Ph.D., Stephen Miles, SM

 

  • Books & Courseware

Miles, Stephen B, Sanjay Sarma, John Williams, co-editors; RFID Technology and Applications, Cambridge University Press, (Cambridge UK, 2009)*

www.cambridge.org/9780521880930

        *Selected for MIT Engineering Systems Design ESD Faculty Summer Reading List Summer 2009

http://esd.mit.edu/Headline/suggested_reading_09.html

 

MIT Open Courseware Spring 2006 – Special Topics in Supply Chain Management: a two-day RFID Academic Conference was held at MIT

ESD.290 Special Topics in Supply Chain Management | Conference Videos

 

  • Articles and papers

Investigation of the waste-removal chain through pervasive computing; Boustani, A.  Girod, L.  Offenhuber, D.  Britter, R.  Wolf, M. I.  Lee, D.  Miles, S.  Biderman, A.  Ratti, C.  IBM Journal of Research and Development; Volume 55, Number 1&2, Jan./Mar.: Smarter Cities - Page(s): 11:1 - 11:11; Digital Object Identifier : 10.1147/JRD.2010.2089564


        "RFID and Zero Accidents; MIT Researchers and Italy's ENEL power company are developing advanced technolies and processes to improve safety at power plants and construction sites;"
        Bob Violino, RFID Journal (Melville, NY) Jan 17, 2011;
        http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/purchase/8121


Abstract 25th Annual MIT Summer Research Program & Broad Institute Poster Session (August 5, 2010); Co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education
       "Visualization and real-time monitoring of complex construction projects in time and space"
        Intern: Sebastian Palacios, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
        http://web.mit.edu/odge/undergraduate/msrp/index.html

       "Mobile Retail Blueprint" (July 8, 2010); National Retail Federation, Mobile Retail Initiative:

        www.nrf.com/mobile


        "Open Chart: Charting Quantitative Properties in LOD"  

        Filip Zembowicz,  David Opolon, Stephen Miles,* 
        accepted paper, Linked Data on the Web (LDOW20102

        April 27th, 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina
        
http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2010/#accepted


        eWeek (cover story) - "An MIT-SAP project uses the pharmaceutical industry

        to test proposals for using RFID technology to track products" (Aug 2007)

        http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/A-Healthy-Dose-of-RFID/


  Miles, Stephen" the ABC’s of the EPCglobal Network," RFID Journal, (2005-2006)

  http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/topics/2/3/

Miles, Stephen and Gibbs, Tom, Intel "Go Beyond EDI - A distributed EPC Network architecture based on open standards is needed to enable companies to take advantage of EPC data," RFID Journal, October 2004. 

 

  • Proceedings of Refereed Conferences    

            November 30 - December 3, 2010; ” The Role Of Unique Identifiers For Products, Patients And Practitioners;  Defense Logistics - Medical Day

           Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington,

http://www.wbresearch.com/defenselogisticsusa/ 

           November 4 -5, 2010; "RFID Futures; connecting things to a shared context"

           3rd European Conference on ICT for Transport Logistics (ECITL)- Bremen Germany

            http://www.ecitl.eu/index.php; http://videolectures.net/ecitl2010_miles_rfid/     


June 2, 2009; “Securing the Internet of Things: Cyber trust for secure supply chain management;" Keynote:  European Commission FP7 Workshop on Secure Supply Chain Collaboration, (Barcelona, SPAIN).

http://www.zlc.edu.es/default.aspx?info=0002A6

May 5, 2009; “Securing the Internet of Things: secure supply chain management for radioactive medical waste,” US – EC RFID Lighthouse Pilot; European Commission Information    Society (Brussels, Belgium)

         http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/rfid/events/index_en.htm

January 22, 2008 – RFID for Asset Management – Asset Management Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, GA

http://www.assetexpo.com/agenda.html


October 16, 2007 – Advanced Electronic Services User Group RFID Workshop, Universal Postal Union, Beijing

http://www.upu.int/info_tech/en/2007-10-16_workshop.shtml  


Graduated Masters in Logistics (MLOG) Students:

  • Chan, Rida*
  • Ram, Sangeeth*
  • Chen, Henry, "Integrating RFID with EDI Business Processes,"**
  • Han, Tahee, "Radio Frequency Identification enabled logistic process for supply chain event management from China to the United States via Hong Kong,"
  • Locher, Maximilian, " A Proposal for Inter-Enterprise Communication of RFID Event Data," MLOG Thesis, June 2005**
  • Schlesinger, Adam, "Mitigating Container Security Risk Using Real-Time Monitoring with Active RFID and Sensors**
      *MLOG Theses; published in the EPCglobal Cookbook; “Data Exchange Work Group Pilot Learnings,” 

     **Hong Kong Harbor Demo Project (LAB + MLOG) advisor with David Brock, Co-founder Auto-ID Labs; 

    

Thanks to Chris Caplice, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation Logistics MLOG program and to James Rice for their collaboration.

 
    Graduated Masters in Engineering (MEng) Students:
  • Chandrasekhar, Chaitra, "Design of User Interfaces for Computing Systems,"
  • Emery, Kevin, "Distributed Eventing Architecture, RFID and Sensors in a Supply Chain,"

     Thanks to Co-PI’s Sam Madden and David Brock for their collaboration.


 

  • Advisor & Judge
          Advisor, Trash Track; MIT SENSEableCity Laboratory 
         
http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/press.php?id=5


          Advisor, MIT CSAIL / Harvard School of Public Health open source telemedicine platform

          www.sanamobile.org

MIT Solar Decathlon ’07 RFID Systems Design and Sponsorship – sponsored by the US `Department of Energy, this competition featured (20) university teams to compete to design, build and finance a model solar. Secured $30,000 RFID tags and readers from Staples, Tagsys and technical support for the project.
 
http://web.mit.edu/solardecathlon/sponsorship.html

 

  • Community
            

-Co-Chair, MIT Enterprise Forum NFC Cluster - Boston

http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/events/boston-nfc-hub-kickoff-event-nfc-delivers-mobile-retail-marketing/

-Chair, MIT Enterprise Forum RFID Special Interest Group

http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/programs/programs-2/special-interest-groups/rfid-special-interest-group-auto-id-and-sensing-solutions/

Co-Chair, RFID Academic Convocations

http://autoid.mit.edu/CS/blogs/video/archive/2009/01/05/mit-convocation-video.aspx

-Member, NRF-ARTS - Mobile Retail Commerce Committee 

http://www.nrf-arts.org/

-Member, EPCglobal Healthcare Life Sciences Business Action Group; Data Exchange WG

http://www.epcglobalinc.org/what/action_group/hls_ag/

-Member, Semantic Web WG, W3C;

http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/

-Advisor, SAP Enterprise Service Community -Sensors

http://en.sap.info/well-connected/2927

- Advisor, Green Garden School, Kikuyu, Kenya

http://thegreengardenschools.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5&Itemid=6


 

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