Looking at the future from Hong Kong RFID application cases: it will be popular in 5 years
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“If you don’t have an ID card, you don’t exist at all.” This simple narrative highlights the value of RFID technology. “Identity” is especially the fundamental and necessary condition for showing individual differences.
RFID is a simple technology that can make any object of interest (OOI) the object of identification. Using RFID tags with unique identification codes, in addition to simply sticking the tag to the entity, it is easy to embed the tag into the object of interest (OOI) for identification. RFID is a kind of radio frequency technology, which completes the transmission through the antenna between the tag and the reader. In this way, information related to tags on the OOI can be easily obtained.
When the circuit in the RFID tag has sufficient energy, it will begin signal transmission and connection within the reader’s receiving range. This method is different from other static identification technology, it is a LOUD ID technology. This feature makes certain inventory management and positioning problems very simple, which is why RFID can be used in tracking, tracing and inventory management functions.
When using RFID to solve specific problems or improve specific solutions, it refers to the use of RFID application systems, including tags, antennas, and readers of the hardware part; and software application systems. The RFID tag makes the object (OOI) identifiable. The antenna and reader provide the function of identifying the RFID tag and the necessary information (physical/virtual location), and the application software is responsible for the ID information and related detection status. Use it properly. Just like any other technology, it must be perfectly combined with other integrated solutions to make sense. Therefore, special consideration must be given to the management after the program is changed in order to have the best results.
In recent years, RFID technology has made some major developments and many successful cases. Although this technology can be applied to point-to-point tracking and visibility, it has not had a major impact on the logistics industry, because the technology applied in this industry has approached maturity. Although according to the law of supply and demand, the cost factor will gradually decrease; mutual interoperability will also be established by various global standards organizations, but more importantly, changes in business models, government policies, and social acceptance can achieve global tracking. And recognition. The above-mentioned non-information technology issues are quite complex. These are issues outside the scope of information technology, and they are also the biggest crux of the entire problem. Prior to this, RFID technology will continue its current development direction, successfully achieving limited applications and some close cooperation relationships, and information exchanges can be well controlled.
In Hong Kong, RFID technology has been widely used in transportation toll collection systems-including Autotoll cross-port tunnels, mass transportation Octopus cards that have been implemented for more than ten years, and the world’s leading baggage handling system at Hong Kong International Airport. These have achieved the original expected goals and the application is very successful, all thanks to the users and the companies behind them.
Since 2006, Cyberport in Hong Kong, an advanced and advanced intelligent composite office building, has been using the RFID+3G facility management solution developed by the Electronic Commerce Solutions Company (EBSL). EBSL also assisted the general map of the University of Hong Kong in early 2009, importing RFID into more than 1 million books, so that students can borrow and return books by themselves, and avoid the cumbersome problems of borrowing and inventorying in the library, and provide more Serve.
In addition, there are also many retail RFID application cases, including the Schmidt Electronics Group Smart Retail System (SRS) and mirrors installed in the Mayen Italian fashion boutiques, which can be used to provide more information on clothing matching to savvy buyers; and The one is electric power logistics. The logistics solution under PCCW (PCCW) actually introduced the RFID sales management system to a leading home appliance and lighting company, which not only enables customers to have a simple order management model, but also improves operational efficiency and improves customers Satisfaction. PCCW (PCCW) and Hong Kong Watsons (Nuance-Watson) Mobile Discovery Kiosk, E-New Technology (EBSL) Grand Buy Department Store E-Sample Solution, are smart sales/marketing management automation service equipment that can help businesses improve Their sales or marketing capabilities. GS1 Hong Kong has just launched the ezTRACK standard as the basis for an information exchange platform to provide consumers with information inquiries and confirmations on the complete supply chain of products.
Many Hong Kong government departments are also applying RFID technology to improve their administrative efficiency. Hospitals and public funeral homes are also evaluating RFID technology for the management of property and dead bodies.
Due to the economic downturn, the manufacturing industry in the Pearl River Delta also has more and more application requirements. Among them, they want to improve the overall productivity of the factory, and some want to transform themselves from labor-intensive factories to modern high-tech industrial factories. The Electronic Commerce Technology Institute (ETI) of the University of Hong Kong worked with the ISME Department to develop RFID smart on-site control to simplify the entire process from raw materials, production to shipment.
The Hong Kong government has been very supportive of RFID application research. The Hong Kong Logistics and Supply Chain Management Application Technology Research and Development Center (LSCM) was established in 2006. Its purpose is to focus on important RFID-related applications in the field of logistics and supply chain management. The development of ETI’s RAE Middleware is sponsored by the LSCM fund, and is currently being commercialized by EBSL with RFiDY as a registered trademark.
Food safety is related to every citizen. It is not only a globally important issue, but also a priority for governments of various countries. In Hong Kong, most of the food is imported from the Mainland, and the governments of both sides have invested in many measures to ensure the quality of food supply. Since 2008, the Electronic Business Technology Institute (ETI) of the University of Hong Kong has been cooperating with the Shenzhen Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau (SZ CIQ) and the Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau (GD CIQ) in Dongguan to establish Information platform for vegetable and pig food safety shipped to Hong Kong. CIQ will collect and use this information to improve internal management to speed up border inspection and customs clearance procedures; at the same time, ETI will provide food safety related services, from inquiries about transportation information related to ordered products, to packaged vegetables and product recycling that supermarket customers want to buy Serve. It will also provide a message feedback mechanism to enable users to respond to abnormal food safety conditions.
This plan is very important because it will develop ways to retrieve and collect data from farms, vegetable distribution centers, food processing centers, and logistics carriers, and understand how effective RFID technology is in the process. Including the release object and the delivery method of the data, this is an important key to the completion of the plan. The value of the system is unquestionable, but whether the method is feasible, cost-effective and acceptable to the government and the industry is the most important issue of this plan. Although the plan initially focused on vegetables and live pigs from Guangdong/Shenzhen to Hong Kong, it can be extended to any food in all provinces of China and other countries. Once the food safety query and tracking is proven to be successful, combining scalability with other sensing technologies to provide the industry with food quality management services. This is the next phased plan in 2010.
RFID technology has come a long way, basically it is a proven low-cost technology that can be effectively used in many tracking solutions. It is believed that the application will be popularized in the next 5 years.
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