Five trends in RFID application scenarios

With the gradual recovery of the market economy, the RFID industry has ushered in the horizontal expansion of applications on the one hand, and on the other hand has to face the market's expectations for more mature solutions. For RFID-related companies, adapting to changes in market demand, providing more customized products and solutions, and meeting cost requirements will never be a problem that can be easily answered.

At present, there is an obvious trend: with the rapid development of digital technology applications such as 5G, cloud computing, big data, and sensors, new conditions have been created for the large-scale application of RFID and the application methods in different scenarios.

RFID food and drug safety traceability management

In 2020, the cold chain food safety issue during the epidemic prevention and control period sparked heated social discussions. Subsequently, various provinces and cities in my country have strengthened the construction of cold chain food traceability and launched a traceability management platform. The traceability management system based on RFID technology realizes the entire life cycle of food. Tracking, feedback, query, archiving and management, further strengthening the safety control of imported and exported cold chain food, and contributing a lot to the prevention and control of the epidemic.

Perfect food traceability involves multiple links such as production, circulation, testing, and sales, which can be roughly divided into forward traceability and reverse traceability. Forward traceability is the complete process of tracing the flow of finished products from front to back along the direction of the supply chain. Reverse traceability follows the reverse direction of the supply chain, from the back to the raw material process.

In practice, it is found that the RFID-based traceability scheme has obvious advantages. Therefore, the epidemic will accelerate the popularization of RFID technology in food and medicine.

The Rise of Cross-border E-commerce——The Demand for RFID Smart Packaging Is Growing

During the 2020 epidemic, data from AliExpress, Alibaba's cross-border retail e-commerce platform, showed that in March when the epidemic began to spread overseas, the number of new Stores opened by merchants on AliExpress increased by 132% month-on-month. The epidemic has accelerated the process of online retail replacing offline retail, and has also accelerated the development of consumer consumption habits.

At present, smart packaging has emerged a very rich product type, of which the largest market segment is RFID information smart packaging, which is mainly used for product quality monitoring, authenticity and anti-counterfeiting, and freight traceability.

The rapid development of China's smart packaging industry has brought new development opportunities for traditional packaging and printing companies. In the future, with the development and deep integration of innovative technologies such as printed electronics, RFID, and flexible displays, especially the rapid development of RFID technology, it will bring benefits to the development of smart packaging and industry companies.

Civil aviation luggage RFID management

On January 12, the 2021 National Civil Aviation Work Conference and the National Civil Aviation Safety Work Conference were held in Beijing. The conference made plans for my country's civil aviation work this year.

At the beginning of this year, Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport officially launched the full-process baggage tracking service, and completed the work requirements of the Civil Aviation Administration of China on "building an airport-side baggage tracking system for tens of millions of airports by the end of 2021" one year ahead of schedule. Departing from Shenzhen Baoan International Airport, take out your mobile phone while waiting for the flight, and you can check the real-time transportation status of your checked luggage; take a flight back to Shenzhen from other places, and you can get the location and arrival time of your luggage through your mobile phone after getting off the plane...

According to reports, a total of 131 sets of RFID reading and writing equipment and more than 200 RFID luggage tag printers have been installed in the luggage tracking service system, covering more than 10 operation areas in the whole process of passenger luggage delivery. In terms of collection point coverage, on the basis of meeting the requirements of the Civil Aviation Administration to collect check-in, security inspection, sorting, loading/container, loading, transfer, and arrival at 7 key nodes, Shenzhen Baoan International Airport has also added large luggage, Seven operating areas, including the luggage claim carousel and the passenger arrival exit, have greatly broadened the scope of luggage data collection and effectively improved the accuracy of data collection. According to the preliminary test data, Shenzhen Baoan International Airport handles about 20,000 pieces of luggage on average every day, and the total average collection rate of the basic nodes of the routes that have used RFID luggage tags reaches 92%, which meets the requirements of the Civil Aviation Administration of higher than 90%.

In terms of the construction of the luggage RFID full process tracking system, in 2021, civil aviation will accelerate the construction of the civil aviation luggage RFID full process tracking system, and further expand the full process tracking coverage. Promote the normalization and standardization of transit facilitation work, and increase the penetration rate of luggage through-check-in and through-flight services.

RFID sensor tags expand new imaginary boundaries

The new RFID sensor tag integrates the sensing capability into the original functional characteristics of the tag, which greatly improves the function and application flexibility of the RFID tag. It can be clearly felt that it has expanded to a greater extent in RFID applications. space. At present, RFID sensor tags are used in warehousing logistics, medicine, agriculture, animal husbandry, automobiles, electricity, transportation and other scenarios.

In recent years, new RFID tags with temperature sensors have often appeared, which is closely related to the rise of market demand, especially in cold chain logistics scenarios. In the process of fresh food transportation, temperature is a crucial influencing factor, because an increase in temperature may cause food spoilage, so it needs to be monitored in real time.

Due to the variety of sensors, the common ones are temperature, humidity, pressure, flow, light intensity, etc., which makes the sensor tag have rich scene adaptability. For sensor tags, the future research and development direction should focus on: how to achieve high-sensitivity and high-precision sensor integration, how to control costs, etc.

Urbanization Construction Trash Bin RFID Management

From December 10th to 11th, 2020, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development held a national on-site meeting on municipal solid waste sorting in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, to summarize and exchange good experience and practices of domestic waste sorting in various places, and deploy to further promote the sorting of domestic waste.

From the four aspects of "upgrading facilities, improving Files, improving quality at the source, and improving efficiency of the rule of law", we are committed to promoting the improvement of domestic waste classification. The organization and promotion system, collection and transportation system, and capacity building system of the city's waste classification work have been basically completed, and the basic types of household waste, such as kitchen waste, hazardous waste, recyclables and other waste, have been established. , The whole chain system of sorting and disposal, the terminal treatment capacity of domestic waste is sufficient, the effects of domestic waste reduction, recycling, and harmlessness are gradually emerging, and the proportion of residents supporting and participating in waste sorting work continues to increase.

By installing RFID electronic tag number on the special waste collection bucket to mark the "identity", and installing automatic weighing, UHF reader, GPS, video surveillance and other information integration equipment on the special waste collection and transportation vehicle, It realizes the functions of automatically identifying the identity of the kitchen waste collection bucket, reading data, capturing video, and locating routes during the collection and transportation process, and provides reliable and credible monitoring for the whole process of waste generation, collection, transportation, disposal, and utilization. Data and decision support.