The 2016 IEEE International Conference on RFID is the premier conference for exchanging all technical research in RFID. The conference attendance boasts an outstanding mix of practitioners and researchers from industry and academia. IEEE RFID 2016 is an opportunity to share, discuss, and witness research results in all areas of RFID technologies and their applications including work in antennas and propagation; applications and software; circuits, devices, and interrogators; energy harvesting and wireless power; internet of things and next-generation physical layer; localization; protocols and security; sensors; and much more.