Application of RFID in tire management

Many large vehicle management companies, such as bus companies, have a large number of internal tire products, frequent turnover, high frequency of data updates, and heavy tasks for tire management personnel. Therefore, there is an urgent need for an efficient digital management solution for tire traceability management. Currently, one of the world's largest tire manufacturers (Michelin) has begun to use embedded EPC ultra-high frequency passive tags on the tires of all heavy trucks, buses and buses, and has launched the corresponding UHF RFID system. Subsequently, world-renowned tire companies and vehicle management units followed suit.

When using, repairing, renovating and managing tires, the current method is to manually brand the tires and then use paper records to record the use of the tires. However, there are many problems: manual branding and manual transcription can easily lead to information confusion and are highly subjective. It is easy for one tire to correspond to multiple identification numbers, or multiple tires to correspond to one identification number, making it impossible to track and query tire information. . Manual branding can also cause problems such as damaged tires and difficulty in identifying brand names; tire circulation involves many processes and a wide range, often resulting in unmonitored tire warehousing, distribution and information tracking.

Tire inner wall inlay is to put a rubber tag into the inner wall of the tire, which is an electronic tag inlaid into the inner wall of the tire. The electronic tag is fixed on the inside of the tire using tire glue. The inlay method on the inner wall of the tire is commonly used by tire management units to manage their tire Assets, and is often used in bus management in China.

For every tire operation, such as quality inspection, road team distribution, inventory counting, tire disassembly and assembly, etc., managers only need to use an RFID handheld device to scan the tire, and then the tire operation information can be uploaded to the network management terminal to form an electronic operation record. . At the same time, tires and buses can be bound, and a vehicle identification tag containing a UHF RFID chip is affixed to the lower right corner of the front windshield of each bus. When installing tires for the first time, you need to use an RFID handheld device to bind the body tag to the tire tag to provide reliable data for tire maintenance and renovation.

Non-contact data collection: UHF RFID technology greatly enhances managers’ ability to collect, exchange and track information on collected objects

High security: The data access of RFID tags is password protected, the identification code is unique and cannot be counterfeited, and the tag indicates encryption technology. This high-security protection measure makes the data on the tag difficult to be forged and tampered with.

Miniaturized size and diversified shapes: RFID tags can be made into spring tags and embedded in tires, or they can be made into a small piece of rubber and embedded inside.

Reusable: RFID tags have a lifespan of up to 50 years at room temperature and support more than 100,000 repeated writes.