China, Ministry of Information Industry recently revealed that China would expand the scale and number of its RFID pilots in the near future. In addition to Qingdao, which has RFID pilots covered six areas: Logistics Management, Production Management, Container Management in port, Vehicle Management, Tire Manufacturing and Sale Management; Beijing, Shanhai, Tianjing, Shenzhen, Dalian, Chendu, Najing and other cities will participate to start RFID pilots.
RFID Improves Operational Efficiency Rapidly "Ministry of Information Industry is making great effort to promote RFID applications in cities holding Olympic events, such Beijing and Tianjing." Officials in the ministry told reporters. 2008 Olympic Game will adopt RFID technology to fight against counterfeit, inspecting electronic tickets contactlessly. Another major RFID application is for vehicle management. For example, affixing a RFID tag in front of every bus rapid transit (BRT) to record the status of certain bus, traffic polices then adjust the time period of green light base on traffic conditions. It says the introduction of RFID improve operational efficiency by 60%, alleviating the traffic jam greatly. More and more RFID applications are adopting these days, Wal-Mart required products shipping from its suppliers must be tagged to reduce labor costs and eliminate manual errors; Pepsi Cola planned to manufacture 33 billion wireless tracking labels before 2010. According to marketing research company In??Stat, the total mount of RFID products in 2010 will be 25 times more than that of 2005, reaches 33 billion dollar. RFID in National Identity Card The vice-director general of Radio Administration Bureau Mr. FeiBo Xie said, with the vigorous development of Golden Card Project and IC card applications, RFID technology have already been applied in actual cases in China. Ministry of Public Security has already issued 370 million new national identity cards, which contain RFID chips. By the end of 2008, it estimates 900 million new ID cards will be in use. With the increasing number of mobile communication applications, integrate RFID in mobile phone will eventually become a trend. Japanese telecommunication operator NTTDoCoMo provides e-wallet service with RFID cell phone; South Korea SK uses RFID cell phone to authenticate ginseng products by reading RFID tags. Telecommunication operators in China also start to invest to develop three-in-one cell phone: Communication, Identification and Electronic Payment About RFIDglobal.org (http://www.rfidglobal.org) RFIDGlobal.org is an internationally oriented online platform for RFID companies and end users, based in ShenZhen, China. RFIDGlobal will play a valuable role in emerging RFID industry. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
