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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Airport Trcking luggage With RFID

Airport Authority Hong Kong, which operates the facility, believes RFID tracking will greatly improve customer satisfaction and security. It will also, according to Matrics, significantly cut the airport’s operating costs. Hong Kong International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world, and a major hub for passengers transferring from flights to and from China. Approximately 35 million passengers use the airport annually, and 40 percent of the luggage handled there comes from transfer flights. Passenger numbers are also expected to grow significantly as the number of flights to and from the Chinese mainland continues to grow.

RFID technology will be deployed across Hong Kong airport’s extensive baggage-handling facilities alongside the existing bar code system. All items of luggage (both those checked in at the airport and those transferred from incoming flights) will continue to be fitted with a bar-coded label bearing a 10-digit IATA (International Air Transport Association) number. However, as each item arrives at the luggage-handling conveyor, a machine will automatically stick a smart label to each piece of luggage, a bar code scanner will read the bag’s bar-coded label, and the label’s IATA number will be written to the bag’s RFID tag. Whenever a bag’s bar-coded label isn’t read properly, that bag will be diverted and the process of writing the IATA number to the RFID tag will be handled manually.

One key aspect of deploying RFID is to improve the accuracy of the existing bar code system. "The current bar code system is 85 to 95 percent accurate," Shoemaker says. To identify luggage ready for loading onto planes, readers will be deployed on the luggage-holding system’s four huge luggage carousels. Readers will be deployed also at the lateral conveyors, which take luggage to loading piers where luggage is manually transferred to unit load devices (ULD)—large containers that are loaded onto the plane. An RFID reader will be clipped temporarily to each ULD to ensure that the correct luggage is loaded into the correct ULD, and then unclipped once loading is completed. The system will automatically create a manifest so that items of luggage can be traced to specific ULDs.


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RFID and cancer

As if pain, conspiracy big brother, and lack of necessity weren't already enough to deter you, the average Joe or Jane, from getting a subcutaneous RFID chip implant, a number of studies over the past decade have amassed which link the chips to malignant tumors in animal tests. Besides the potential foul play going on at the FDA and VeriChip Corp. that got the chips approved for human use in 2004, studies showing as little as 1% cancer rates in lab animals led researchers to note that the aggressive tumors which immediately encased RFID implants with cancerous cells were "clearly due to the implanted microchips", and not random occurrences. That isn't to say RFID itself is dangerous -- we put far more powerful radios up to our heads every day using a cellphone or even a Bluetooth headset. But implants are still looking mighty sketchy all of a sudden; probably not the news some 2,000 US RFID implantees (including Mythbuster Kari Byron, who got a chip injection on-camera last week) want to hear, but the sooner you can deal with it, the better, says we.

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RFID for Livestock and Animal Identification

1-RFID technology has been used to identify millions of livestock animals around the world. These systems track meat and dairy animals, valuable breeding stock and laboratory animals involved in lengthy and expensive research projects. The Australian National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) is the first and the largest implementation of RFID for animal tracking in the world.RFID transponders are worn as ear tags or as an inter-ruminal capsules. Farm management can be fully automated for such processes as feeding, weighing, disease management, and breeding practices.
2-IBM has developed radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking technology to track chickens from farms to supermarket shelves. The supplier is working with a Norwegian food producer Nortura to build a proof of concept item-level tagging application for the food industry. RFID has been used successfully to track animal movements, such as the movement of cattle during the BSE outbreak, and to protect high-value items such as whisky and clothing, But it is unusual to find examples of item-level RFID tagging in food production, according to Stefan Pique, European director at GS1, the supply chain data standards body.
http://www.electrocom.com.au/rfid_animalid.htm
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles

RFID car tracking system

RFID systems can be used to manage inventory of automobiles in new and used car dealerships and in rental car lots. Use RFID technology to track the location of each car in the lot at any time. In addition, our advanced RFID technology can automatically check cars into and out of the lot in real time. Benefits of using RFID systems include: total visibility of all cars in the lot, facilitate just-in-time delivery of cars as they are needed, allow inventory of less popular cars to be reduced, full inventory history of cars at each location, full control of inventory content and location for cars in the facility, automatic notification when a car enters or leaves the lot, alarm when a car disappears from inventory and eliminate manual record keeping, thereby increasing accuracy and staff productivity. A complete solution for the Car Dealerships asset tracking applications will contain three main RFID components: RFID Tags, RFID Readers, and software to collect and manage the RFID data. The diagram below illustrates how a car lot can be monitored in real time with active RFID readers placed such that the entire auto yard is covered. Each vehicle is equipped with an active RFID tags that can be set communicate with the reader network and report on location and movement. RFID Asset Tracking LocateWare software can report on actual location and also gather historic movement information