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The Finnish postal operator will soon post 7,000 to 8,000 letters with passive RFID tags each month to track the movement of letters through the postal system. Itella, the private operator of the Finnish postal system, has completed the installation of RFID readers in three distribution centers and plans to install RFID readers in all 11 distribution centers in the service network by the end of September.
Finland Post will use passive RFID to track individual letters
“This will be an advancing application. As a performance measurement tool, Itella will use the RFID system to locate and track the delivery of postal items,” said Sirit’s Bill Allen. Itella uses a total of 24 Sirit INfinity 510 Gen2 RFID readers. Each reader is equipped with four antennas. They will be installed in 11 distribution centers.
The reader can recognize letters with RFID tags. The postal staff could not identify the tracking letter with the tag. Itella will use read data to measure the transmission speed of letters in the postal system, analyze the flow of letters, and measure the work of the postal system based on service standards.
Allen said that this application is technically challenging because the processing system runs very fast and the direction of the letter is not accustomed to it. Itella previously used active RFID technology to track letters. The cost of passive systems is relatively low, partly because passive tags are much cheaper.
“One of the important aspects that Itella is most interested in is the ability to read individual letters in the parcel,” Allen said. “Before deciding on the RFID device, they tested a lot of different tags, readers and tag placement locations.”
Itella is also using passive RFID tags for 650,000 reusable postal parcels (used to transport letters), according to project integrator Finn-ID. There are currently no plans to use RFID to track individual letters on a larger scale.
Postal operators around the world use RFID technology in many operations, from tracking applications (such as the tracking of Itella reusable containers) to the management of other assets. In the next 10 years, postal operators will purchase 2.5 billion U.S. dollars of RFID equipment and services, and trillions of items will be affixed with electronic tags each year, the international market research company IDTechEx predicted in a recent report.
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