RFID technology used all over the world

RFID, also known as radio frequency identification, identifies and reads and writes specific target data through radio signals, and can complete identification and read and write data without mechanical contact or specific complex environments. Let's take a look at the application of RFID technology to life around the world.

1. The Hospital uses UHF RFID to track medical records (France)

Find and track cases in a massive case warehouse faster, more efficiently and conveniently. (About 40,000 medical records are tagged with Tageos RFID tags in the hospital’s central archives)

How to achieve?

1) First, the medical record management department pastes Tageos UHF RFID tags on each medical record. After the label is pasted, the desktop RFID Reader reads the label code and sends the data to the background data recording software, which is associated with the specific patient's information data.

2) To check the medical records, the doctor needs to take them out of the File management room and put them in the medical record cart as shown below. Then use a handheld RFID reader to read the code of the medical record so that the system can record the lending status of the medical record.

3) In the future, the hospital will also upgrade the system and deploy a fixed RFID read-write channel, so that when the medical record car passes through the read-write channel, it will automatically read the tag codes of all medical records in the car, without the need for doctors to read and write by hand, reducing artificial forgetting resulting in leaks.

2. Museums use RFID technology to provide visitors with a personalized experience (Netherlands)

Provide a better visiting experience. Specifically, the first is to record tourists' visit routes for museum staff to analyze customer behavior; the second is to associate ticket IDs with exhibits, that is, to provide value-added functions for information recording.

How to achieve?

1) Embed a UHF RFID tag (EPC Gen2) in the ticket.

2) Place fixed readers at the entrance and exit of the museum and around the exhibits.

3) When tourists enter the range of the reader, the fixed reader will read the visitor's ticket ID twice when the visitor enters and leaves. Museums can use relevant data to determine the popularity of exhibits, especially those on rotation, to formulate exhibit rotation rules and frequencies.

4) In addition, during the visit, tourists can also associate the exhibits they are interested in with the ID of the ticket they hold. After returning home, they can log in to the museum website and enter the ID code on the ticket to enjoy the exhibits again.

3 Art storage studio adopts RFID technology for art protection (Hong Kong)

How to achieve?

1) Personnel entering and exiting the storage room wear a pass with an embedded RFID tag to record the entry situation of the personnel.

2) The artwork is pasted with a passive UHF tag, which has a unique code and is associated with the owner of the artwork, the storage unit where it is located, and other information.

3) A total of 37 UHF RFID readers are installed in the studio, including the exit of the storage room, the interior of the VIP storage room, the main access passage of the storage room and the door of the repair room.

4) If the artwork is moved out of the storage room, the reader at the door reads the ID of the tag, and the background data software will calculate the location of the artwork, the time of entry and exit, and other information.

4. Garbage disposal company uses low-frequency RFID tags to identify garbage bins (Norway)

Provide advanced garbage recycling and sorting solutions, not only manage the garbage recycling process, but also be able to bill accurately, and refuse to dispose of garbage from residents who have not paid.

How to achieve?

1) Paste the label on the outside of the garbage bin (attached to the opening of the garbage bin cover, usually added by the garbage bin manufacturer), and the reader is installed on the lifting handle of the truck. The background provides real-time information.

2) When the recycling truck grabs the garbage bin, it reads the tag information. The recycling truck can detect whether the resident of the garbage bin has paid, and the unpaid customer will not be processed, and the unpaid information will be sent to the resident's mobile phone.

3) At the same time, the system can also weigh the garbage bin, locate the GPS device, and then send the tag ID, weight, location, time and other information to the background database through the wired network.