New China facility to optimize RFID applications

To provide real-life conditions for evaluating and optimizing RFID applications NXP Semiconductors announced the opening of the RFID Applications and System Center in Tianjin, China.

Within the center, NXP has constructed a variety of environments for trialing different RFID applications, including electronic certificates, secure payments and energy monitoring.

The new facility accommodates to label customers, system integrators and end users with its customized antenna design, read/write device optimization, customized RFID test environments for fashion, medical, logistics, warehousing, industrial production and animal identification application systems.

The NXP RFID Application and System Center offers experimental and test equipment, capable of providing label design and label product performance analysis, to assist in the development of fully optimized solutions

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RFID & Toll road

Another application for RFID is applying this technology in gathering travelers’ payments in using highways. Previously all the vehicles should be waiting in a long queue to pay the toll to the toll station. In addition, cost of employee that should be seat on this station, tickets that should be printed for vehicles, manual toll collection, etc all brings high cost and it was time consuming. Using RFID system in this process eliminates manual toll collection and also reduces the need for employee. Furthermore fast collection money, remove the long queue and increase satisfaction. Vehicles just by stick RFID tags on their window and pass through the RFID reader without stopping and wasting time can easily pay their toll as you see in the below picture Easily by RFID this process will done effecincy by minimum amount of cust and time.

source: Stefan Dahl, 2006, “Anonymous car toll payment using RFID tags”, KTH Royal Institute of Technology School of Computer Science and Communication, Stockholm, Sweden

RFID in laundry

Do you need to employ a mass of labor to sort the garments by material and throw them to the right washers in your laundry? Do you find it hard to keep track of the garments rented to the customers? RFID technology for laundry, which will benefit the laundry industry in a huge number of ways, such as eliminating errors in laundering orders and inventory counts, may help to figure out the above problems.
RFID in laundry application is proving immediate and long term benefits to garment management in process and lifecycle traceability. The laundry tag can withstand temperatures between -20 and +110 degrees, and can survive harsh treatment including sterilization. The DAILY RFID(company name) series includes RFID tags for almost any application.
Early interest in RFID came from the developers of inventory control systems for commercial laundry processes, specifically for the higher valued rental garments. And the challenge as originally posed for RFID was to provide a means of automatically reading garments without a line-of-sight read requirement and provide a durable tag that could survive multiple washings. As a result, RFID technology for laundry utilization is in the ascendant.

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