RFID Radio Frequency Identification Identification System (2)

VII. Current Situation of RFID Development at Home and Abroad Since RFID is listed as one of the ten most important technology projects in this century, all countries in the world are making every effort to develop it. It is illustrated by some statistics that over the past ten years, there have been more than 6,000 kinds. Patent applications for RFID technology.

(I) Foreign Development Status

The most famous examples of foreign development are Wal-Mart Department Stores, which accounts for 20% of global retail sales, 60% of U.S. retail sales, and what the US Business Week calls the new global corporate dictator. On November 5th, 2003, Wal-Mart Stores, one of the world’s 100 largest suppliers, gathered in Wal-Mart’s headquarters in Roger, Arkansas, USA. There are also retail-related companies from around the world. Technology companies such as Oracle, SAP, IBM, etc. all have representatives. The chairman of the domestic Yongfengyu company also sent his son, He Juda, to the meeting. On this day, Wal-Mart Department Store was regarded as D day full of smoke and odor (the days when the First World War coalition landed on the Normandy Peninsula in France and launched a counter-attack victory). Wal-Mart Department Store officially announced that by the end of 2005, there must be electronic product barcodes using RFID technology for all the goods that are supplied to the Wal-Mart department store. Wal-Mart Department Store is expected to further reduce costs from new technologies, especially with regard to material loss associated with inventory processes and reduce labor costs. An analyst estimates that after the Wal-Mart Department Store is completed, cost savings are estimated to reach US$8.4 billion per year.

In the 1990 Gulf War, when the U.S. military transported supplies and medicines to the front line, 70% of them had to check the contents of the goods through the opening of the manpower, which delayed many precious hours. Last year’s war on Iraq, the U.S. Department of Defense placed RFID tags on military mats. After scanning for a second, they knew what was inside. Many European and American countries have electronic toll gates on highways. As long as RFID identification cards are stuck on cars, they can be charged directly through toll gates and automatically deducted without parking. NASA wants to use this technology to track what is launched into space. DHL is experimenting with RFID to manage about 160 million parcels shipped each year. The Australian government wants to manage kangaroos that are much larger than the Australian population.

In addition, if British Airways is conducting a pilot program for RFID and allows some specific smart RFIDs to change the RFID content while scanning, there is no need to re-submit another new RFID. This will enable airlines to easily detect the possibility of passengers taking advantage of the transfer of illegal items using the weight data on the RFID. In addition, travelers no longer need to use scanners to check in, and they can also benefit from streamlining procedures. Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the New Tokyo International Airport have also begun trials of RFID and suitcases since October 2001. Singapore’s Changi International Airport, Hong Kong International Airport, San Francisco and Vancouver International Airport will also be introduced. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has been working on the development of RFID standards a few years ago. In addition, there are transport control operations for container docks in various countries. Containers that have been inspected are sealed with RFID tags to effectively prevent container contents from being transferred and track the route of the entire container. The National Standardization Management Committee of the Chinese mainland recently announced that it has formally established the “Electronic Labeling” National Standards Working Group to draft and formulate relevant national “electronic label” national standards in Mainland China so that it will have independent intellectual property rights in mainland China and at the same time International standards are compatible with each other. The Octopus Card, which has been in Hong Kong for many years, is manufactured by RFID chips and readers. It is the world's most successful non-contact multi-function smart card and its application range includes parking lots, convenience stores, fast food restaurants, cinemas, vending machines, and swimming pools. The "Hometown", "Housing System", "Security System", and "Campus Link System" are truly "one card at hand, extending in all directions."

(b) Domestic Development Status

On the part of the government, the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Technical Office began promoting high-frequency RFID R&D projects through the ITRI’s System Center in fiscal 1992. The research and development includes important technologies such as IC chips, antennas, and readers. If IC chips are developed, they can be developed. Make RFID more versatile in all aspects. The ITRI System Center also accepts commissions from the Department of Commerce and Technology of the Ministry of Economic Affairs to implement RFID applications and R&D-related programs. It also holds the “2003 RFID Commercial Application Development Strategy Forum” hosted by the Deputy Director of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Shi Yanxiang. Mr. Zhong Ganjiao Consultant, Chairman of the Yongfeng Yu Company He Shouchuan, Dean Li Zhongxi of the Industrial Technology Research Institute, and representatives of the industry and academia. The discussion covers the application of RFID technology and the demand side and production supply side. At the conference, they jointly expressed the direction and consensus for the promotion of the RFID industry in China, and established an overall system development management including research management, applications, standards, and regulations to jointly promote the development of China's RFID industry value chain. At the same time, research is also planned to establish an RFID R&D alliance in mid-January 2004. Wu Nianzu, project manager of the ITRI System Center, stated that RFID has been widely used in low-frequency products, and only high-frequency RFID has been promoted by the government. With the introduction of Yongfeng Yuzhi Paper and Hsinchu Freight Company (92/12/22 Business & Industry Times), the entire growth space is still quite large. In addition, the Department of Commerce is currently conducting the Smart & Secure Tradelanes Initiative, which was derived from the United States as a result of the September 11 attacks. It is mainly the combination of RFID and containers for container tracking and security control.

Non-professional: Taiwan's most representative RFID non-you are not a leisurely card, with the internal RFID chip and coils around, all bus, MRT and parking parking can be solved with a leisure card, the future even a taxi On-street parking is charged with a leisure card. Thirteen graduate students at the Institute of Electronics Science and Technology of the Jiaotong University and the Institute of Electronic Technology won the first prize of the second "Taiwan Industrial Bank Venture Capital Contest" with the "Intelligence Inside - RFID Wireless Identification System" project. Their entrepreneurial plan is to use RFID's advantages in digital information, wireless communication transmission and encryption technology, applied to aviation and freight transportation, logistics warehousing, security systems, personnel management and animal chips. The reasons for the team’s qualifying are not only due to the planned delays, careful analysis, and expressive skills, but also the mastery of new product prices and market advantages, showing the business opportunities of the plan. In addition, Taiwanese automakers such as China and Yulon have already introduced the use of parts management as early as a few years ago. Because the assembly of the automotive industry not only has many parts and the steps are complicated, manufacturers use RFID chip tags to confirm each part and step. Is it assembled? Radio frequency identification radio waves do not interfere with hospital medical equipment. During the SARS period, ITRI and Taipei Medical University made full use of RFID. ITRI ​​installed sensors in the Hsinchu Dongyuan Hospital and provided the hospital with ID cards containing RFID chips. Once a person is diagnosed with an affliction, the onset and activity path can be clearly known within 20 minutes. Taipei Medical University also uses wristband tags equipped with RFID chips and body temperature sensors to grasp the status of patients and employees and the history of exposure. In the future, RFID chips can also provide signals for PHS and ADSL to provide home living for elderly people living alone. However, some high-tech manufacturers in Taiwan, such as fabs and packaging plants, also have RFID applications that track wafers and easily lose items.

VIII. Linkage between RFID and Printing and Publishing Industry

(a) Foreign:

Da Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., NTT Communications Inc., and Japan's Sun Systems Inc. have jointly developed a publishing-oriented system that can capture supply chain management (SCM) and bookstore customer buying trend statistics by embedding RFID tags in books. The above company introduced multiple application examples at the "Tokyo International Book Fair 2003 (show time: April 24-27, 2003, location: Tokyo Big Sight International Convention and Exhibition Center), and uses books that are actually embedded with wireless tags. Demonstration.

The actual demonstration of the trial system can be divided into three categories:

The first type is to build SCMs in publishing houses, logistics companies (distributors) and bookstores. Through the sharing of information related to book stocks, circulation inventory, and bookstore inventory, the publisher shortens the circulation cycle, optimizes the number of issued and delivered goods, and improves the inventory efficiency in bookstores. At present, due to the use of bar codes, the workload is large and it is difficult to manage all the books in real time. By using wireless tags, books can be managed directly from the box.

The second type of application paradigm is to understand the purchase behavior of customers in bookstores. If a wireless tag reading device (reader) is installed on the bookshelf in advance, it is possible to grasp information such as "viewing times and times" and "orders of books the customer gets." When someone suddenly takes away a large number of books for the purpose of stealing money for books, the system will not only immediately issue a warning on the monitor screen after the detection of this situation, but also inform the clerk, and it will also issue "Thank you for your purchase!" The sound indicates that the system is monitoring it.

The third application paradigm is the services provided by customers who purchase books. By cooperating the bookstore's POS (electronic collection system) system and the publisher database, it is possible to provide regular book buyers with services such as electronic books.

However, it is unclear whether the Japanese publishing industry with an annual circulation of 6 billion copies will introduce wireless tags. There are still many problems waiting to be resolved. In addition to the need to develop application examples that can attract publishers, distributors, and bookstores to take the initiative to introduce, there are also issues such as “how to transition from barcodes to wireless labels” and “what is the cost of database development and operation?”. The “IC Label Research Committee” was formally established in March 2003 by the Japanese publishing industry organization (JPO), a member of the publishing industry, distributors and bookstores. The committee will discuss the technical trends of wireless tags and the issues faced when they are introduced at the publishing bank, and will then organize the entire needs of the publishing house in a written report in March 2004. "We have also participated in a research meeting established by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to establish relevant specifications. We hope to express the requirements of the publishing industry." (Ning Jingxiang, Marketing Planning Office, Japan Kodansha, IC Label Research Committee) one).

(b) Domestic aspects:

The earliest researched Yongfengyu Company developed the RFID cartons. The company claimed to have completed the technology for the printing of RFID signal transmitting antennas and is currently in the process of testing. It is expected that it will win all orders for DHL and UPS's two major international express companies' Asian carton boxes after completion ( 93/12/04 China Times). Zhong Hongzhi, general manager of Yong Paper Company’s paper and paper division, believes that RFID technology is expected to be released in mid-2004, while Yongfeng Yu will set production time in the second half of the year. Initially, it will focus on the packaging of high-priced products, and Yongfeng Yu will be the first to use it. Become the first choice of Wal-Mart Department Stores in Asia (92/12/22 Business Times). “The future Yongfengyu will not only sell cartons but will also sell services to help customers solve the problem of adding electronic barcodes to their packaging. This will be a very important service and opportunity,” said He Yongda, director of the strategy integration center at Yongfeng Yu Company.

There is also the newly established Digital Content College Library, which is the first library in Taiwan to enable a full RFID operating environment. The old method was to use barcodes for distribution operations plus EM-STRIPE processing; semi-old methods used RFID for distribution operations, and book security still used magnetic stripe processing; and the new approach was circulation operations. And book security uses RFID (a rewritable RFID on a book).

The application of RFID technology has the following advantages for the collection management: Simplify borrowing operations, speed up inventory operations, easily find books that are not on the shelf or are misplaced, readers can borrow books automatically, and so on. At the same time, it also gave librarians a new position, from the regulator of books to the interpreter of information (http://).