What are the advantages of linen tracking management based on UHF RFID technology

For a long time, whether it is a star hotel or an economic chain hotel, linen has been an indispensable and important material. All kinds of hotels are faced with the handover, washing, ironing, sorting, storage, etc. of thousands of pieces of linen. How to effectively complete the daily handover of washed linen, track and manage the washing process, frequency, inventory status and effective classification of each piece of linen is a great challenge.

The hotel linen management system solution based on UHF ultra-high frequency RFID technology is to embed ultra-high frequency (UHF) laundry tags into the linen, and bind the tag information with the information of the marked linen, and read through RFID Writer equipment acquires label information to achieve real-time tracking and management of linen.

Through the application of RFID technology, building an efficient work platform for fast collection, sorting, automatic inventory, and clothing collection of linen management in the hotel industry will greatly improve the hotel's management efficiency and management capabilities for linen, and reduce error rates. Reduce operating costs and realize automation and refined management. Based on RFID technology, it can effectively solve the above problems, and can make the entire management, use and washing process transparent, and greatly improve work efficiency. Its advantages are obvious. Mainly manifested in the following aspects:

1. Realize quick and easy visual inventory management

RFID electronic tags can help companies carry out inventory management more efficiently on a daily basis. UHF RFID Readers in each warehouse provide continuous inventory monitoring to help pinpoint where linen is lost or stolen. Real-time inventory counts of inventory quantities through RFID technology can also help businesses that use outsourced cleaning services. Inventory inventory is carried out before the linen to be washed is sent away, and the quantity is checked again after the linen is sent back to ensure that no linen is lost during the final washing process.

2. Accurate cleaning quantity records

Most linen can only withstand a certain number of intensive wash cycles before the linen starts to crack or become damaged. It is difficult to predict the end-of-life date of each piece of linen without records of the number of washes, which in turn makes it difficult for hotels to plan for ordering replacement linen. The number of wash cycles for each piece of linen is a very important data, and the number of wash cycles analysis system can effectively help predict the end-of-life date of each linen.

When the linen comes out of the washing machine, the UHF RFID reader will automatically identify the RFID electronic tag sewn in the linen, and the number of cleaning cycles of the linen will be uploaded to the system database. When the system detects that a piece of linen is approaching its end-of-life date, the system prompts the user to reorder the linen. This procedure can greatly reduce restocking time due to lost or damaged linen.

3. Reduce human linen sorting and improve work efficiency

The traditional linen sorting process usually requires 2-8 people to sort the linen into different chutes, and it may take several hours to sort all the linen. When the RFID electronic tag passes the production line equipped with the RFID reader, the UHF reader reads the tag, confirms what type of linen is read, and sends the linen to the appropriate place or within the machine. RFID technology replaces the traditional way of distinguishing barcodes or distributing grass by human eyes. Now only one or two people need to be assigned to send the linen to the next procedure in an orderly manner, which improves work efficiency.

4. Help to understand customer preferences and promote secondary sales

Through the RFID tags on the rental linen, it can help manufacturers record customer information (such as historical renters, rental dates, rental duration, etc.), help companies understand customer preferences, popularity, etc., and promote secondary sales.

5. Improve linen utilization and reduce loss

If a piece of linen is taken out of a room in a hotel or Hospital, the occupants of that room can be charged for the linen to ensure that the business does not lose money. Because the unique EPC serial number in the RFID electronic tag enables the company to identify which piece of linen is lost or stolen, and can know its last location.

UHF RFID technology uses RFID technology for non-contact two-way communication to exchange data to achieve the purpose of automatic identification. RFID electronic tags are waterproof, anti-magnetic, high temperature resistant, long service life, long reading distance, and the data on the label can be encrypted and Stored It has the advantages of larger data capacity, free change of stored information, identification of high-speed moving objects and identification of multiple tags at the same time. These characteristics are suitable for comprehensively coping with the difficulties in linen management and truly realizing the fine management of RFID linen.

With RFID technology as the core, combined with network, database and information management technologies, it provides the transformation of the linen washing management system from handover, tracking, life cycle management, etc., to realize batch scanning and identification of washed linen, without individual scanning, which is convenient for manual Handover and management work, easy to use; improve work efficiency and economic benefits, save personnel expenses, and reduce costs; fully automatic design, improve service quality; record customer information and laundry statistics, generate various reports, and query and print information at any time . Its main effects are as follows:

1. Labor can be reduced by 40-50%;

2. More than 99% of linen products can be visualized to reduce the risk of missing linen;

3. The improved supply chain management will reduce the working service time by 20-25%;

4. Improve the accuracy and reliability of stored information;

5. Efficient and accurate data collection, providing operational efficiency;

6. Automatic collection of distribution, recovery and handover data to reduce human errors;

7. Reduce the overall cost of the user's linen washing management;

8. Provide accurate cleaning quantity records.