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Pelican Products is a manufacturer that sells plastic containers. The containers currently sold are mainly sealed with RFID seals. The previously purchased containers use RFID modification tools, which strengthens the product’s insurance factor for customers. The manufacturer faces a wide range of customers, including government agencies, large manufacturers, fire police departments, professionals and industrial workers. The plastic containers produced are rectangular, reusable and of different sizes, the large ones are like military suitcases, and the small ones are like iPods.
The RFID seal used by Pelican is called SecureContainer and is provided by Mikoh. It allows users to seal the container with RFID technology while tracking the process of opening the seal. Pelican agreed that Mikoh could also sell such containers.
Plastic boxes produced by Pelican
In February, Mikoh started selling containers with SecureContainer seals, and Pelican sold 56 containers.
The SecureContainer seal can fix the wear-resistant RFID seal on the container mouth. In this way, Pelican can confirm to the customer that the container is not damaged. Although Mikoh will provide a large list of integrator and RFID reader supplier names, RFID interrogators must be purchased separately.
The specific labeling process is as follows: the user slides away the disposable plastic liner on the container mouth, and then attaches the Mikoh Smart&Secure passive or active label to the liner. Andrew Strauch, vice president of product marketing management at Mikoh, said that the RFID tags sold by Mikoh can be applied to different standards and different frequency bands, including LF, HF and UHF. The sealant on the RFID label will directly enter the plastic liner and will not touch the container, so that after the label is used, there will be no sealant remaining on the container mouth. If you want to open the container, you must break the plastic liner and the RFID tag on it.
Mikoh’s RFID electronic seal
The SecureContainer seal mainly adopts two modes of operation. One is that if someone wants to remove the tag or open the container, the wire between the antenna and the chip installed in the RFID tag will break. At this time, the RFID chip cannot be used. The cost of this solution is low. If the user finds that the tag cannot be read, it means that the tag has been destroyed.
The second method is that even if the seal is broken, the label can still be read, but when it is read, a message will be sent to warn that the seal is broken. This scheme, Strauch said, has aroused the interest of US government officials, because even if the seal is broken, government employees can still get the historical data on the label.
Pelican intends to sell containers and modification tools that use SecureContainer seals to users who have purchased Pelican containers and want to apply RFID technology.
According to Mark Rolfes, Pelican’s vice president of marketing, Mikoh was the first to find Pelican after cooperating with a government agency. This government agency has been looking for secure containers using RFID technology. The container used by the organization has to span many parts of the world, and transited several times in the meantime. When it arrives at the destination, if the goods inside are found to be lost, it seems impossible to find the reason for the damage to the sealing strip.
But if the RFID sealing strip is used, even if it is broken, the agency staff can still read the data on the label and find the cause of the damage. The label damage must have occurred between the previous reading and this damage.
The retrofit kit is about $50, while the RFID tag and plastic gasket replacement is about $8. The first batch of RFID kits will be shipped to an unknown government agency within the next few weeks. Containers using RFID and retrofit kits for individual users are currently in production.
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