Application of RFID Technology in Clothes Washing Management

At present, RFID technology has penetrated into all aspects of people's lives, and more and more applications have achieved more convenient management through RFID technology. Due to the differences in materials and styles of clothes, there is no uniform cleaning standard. As a result, the process of sorting each laundry is often very complicated, resulting in low work efficiency.

Studies have shown that the sorting process of soiled fabrics will produce flying dust or aerosols that can carry infectious pathogenic bacteria, which not only pollutes the air environment in wards, but also increases the occupational exposure and cross-infection risks of fabric collectors. The People's Republic of China's health industry standard "Technical Specifications for Washing and Disinfection of Hospital Medical Fabrics (WS/T 508-2016)" stipulates that soiled fabrics and infectious fabrics should be collected in different categories, and shaking should be reduced during collection.

For medical institutions, on the one hand, the disinfection of ordinary dirty fabrics includes chemical disinfection and moist heat disinfection during the washing process, and dry heat disinfection during the drying process. After several rounds of chemical and physical disinfection, the cleanliness of the fabric can be guaranteed. degree. For heavily polluted fabrics, even infectious fabrics, the disinfection method is even more stringent. Strict control has been made in terms of the amount of disinfectant and the temperature of washing and drying to ensure the quality of disinfection. On the other hand, the medical fabrics of large-scale medical washing enterprises have achieved the greatest degree of mechanical automation so far from sorting, washing, disinfection, drying, folding, and packaging, so as to avoid cross-infection caused by dirty fabrics to people, and at the same time avoid People cause secondary pollution to clean fabrics.

In the process of manual collection and sorting of medical dirty fabrics, flying dust or aerosols with potentially infectious bacteria will be spread, which will not only cause air pollution in the public places of the hospital (including outpatient and emergency departments, wards of various departments, etc.) Pollution will also increase the occupational exposure and cross-infection risks of fabric collectors. Using RFID technology, it is possible to collect dirty fabrics in a non-contact manner. With a scan, in less than a second, you can know which department, ward, and category the medical fabrics come from. Then, a list will be automatically printed out in the background. , Effectively prevent possible infection caused by manual counting and shaking of dirty fabrics.

For the laundry management of daily dry cleaners, the intelligent central laundry factory plays a key role, which realizes laundry automation, digitization, standardization, and visualization. Let each piece of clothing have its own unique 'ID Card' - RFID electronic tag.

First of all, RFID electronic tags will accompany the clothing from collection to delivery. A cleaning process will go through admission points, admission inspection, classification before washing, stain removal before washing, classification washing, classification drying, quality inspection before ironing, sterilization and shaping, classification and ironing, quality inspection of finished products, accessory matching, sterilization and disinfection , Finished product packaging, factory distribution, factory review a total of 16 procedures. And every time a process is passed, the clothing information will be entered into the chip once. The chip can ensure that every link of cleaning clothes is recorded, and customers can check the cleaning status of clothes at any time. In some important operations, customers can also visualize the laundry process by watching videos on the relevant app, and know exactly which technician and which machine the clothes are washed by.

fixed reader

Based on RFID technology, automatic data collection is carried out on the data of each operation link such as linen delivery and washing, handover, storage, automatic sorting, inventory inventory, etc., and the collected data is real-time through ultra-high frequency handheld terminals and fixed readers. Upload to the background system, grasp the status of each link of linen circulation in real time, and count the number of washing times, washing costs, rental quantities and rental fees in real time. Realize the visualization of the whole process of washing management, and provide real-time data support for the scientific management of enterprises.

UHF handheld terminal

The RFID laundry washing management system can automatically count the number of fabrics put into various departments in various turnover states, use the portable RFID Reader to go to the work area for non-contact scanning and inventory, and quickly and conveniently read the data information of the clothes, so as to realize the non-opening The type and quantity of clothes can be accurately counted without opening the cabinet. By checking the inventory results and delivery records, you can find changes in Asset shortages and surpluses, find out and analyze the reasons for differences, and solve problems in clothing management by strengthening system construction and link management.