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  Peter Chang 00:00 on December 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  1 min Check-in with RFID ID card 

  A few years ago, I used the self check-in service at London’s Heathrow airport for the first time, which launched by British Airways. I just walk up to an open kiosk and insert my credit card (or enter the flight code), then I can choose my favorite seat and printing the boarding pass for very short time.

  Now, if you are a Chinese citizen and has a second-generation Chinese resident identity card (built-in RFID chips), then travel in China will be very convenient.

  At the Chinese domestic airport, the self-check in kiosk just like a big RFID reader, passengers only need to scan their second-generation resident ID card at the kiosk, their flight information will automatically appear from computer screen, then after few simple steps, the entire self check-in process can be completed about just 1min.

  The uses of RFID self check-in kiosk significantly reduce the number of passengers in front of the check-in counters, not only saved passengers’ time, but also reduce the cost of airlines. At Shenzhen airport (near Hong Kong), the number of RFID self check-in kiosk has increased from 22 to 60, and the airport is plan for more RFID kiosks use at airport’ pier waiting terminal, also use at the bus link between city center and airport.

   

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  Renfa 03:57 on November 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: China (2), Liquor, RFID (2)   

  RFID technology on Chinese liquor product 

  Chinese liquor has a long history and brewed with distilled grain alcohol, it is one of the world’s top seven distilled liquor. Chinese people consumed about 5 million tons a year liquor, illustrating the market’s big, but also precisely because of this, in China’s liquor market is obsessed with the existence of counterfeit spirits, which always endanger the health of consumers.

  In recent years, food safety has been the focus of attention of the whole society. At the 15^th November 2009, Jiangsu Shuang’gou Distillery held a “new anti-counterfeiting RFID Shuang’gou liquor news conference,” in Nanjing. opened the first of China’s liquor businesses use the RFID technology to protect consumer from counterfeiting product.

  Jiangsu Shuang’gou Distillery has work with the “China RFID Association” and the relevant professional experts at the beginning of 2007, to applied the RFID security system into their well-sale product- “Shuang’gou Treasures”.

  Each bottle “Shuang’gou Treasures” liquor is equipped with a unique “RFID electronic chips,” consumers can use the special RFID reader(free with liquor) gently by clicking around the bottle, reader will quickly display the date of manufacture, quality grade and other information about the bottle of liquor they bought. The RFID chips cannot reuse once the bottle has opened up. If consumers have a 3G smart phone, they can also use their mobile phone as a reader, after reading the label on the bottle, they will automatically receive an SMS, which gives them all the information about this bottle of liquor.

  According to Jiangsu Shuang’gou Distillery Website, that with its powerful new anti-counterfeiting RFID products, counterfeiter hardly can make the false products due to the technical barriers and expensive costs.I expressed cautious support, but in any case, Jiangsu Shuang’gou Distillery did a big step in China’s liquor industry. They use RFID technology to set a precedent to prevent counterfeit products, that’s may encourages other companies to consider the use of RFID technology in the field of food safety in China.

   
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  Derek Du 18:05 on July 11, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Children, Safety   

  RFID Children Safety Network 

  In 2007, after 3 years old British girl Madeleine McCann was missing in Portugal, the UK media evoked a discussion on how to protect the children’s safety. A numbers of mobile network operators also started providing some new services, such as Kids OK mobile phone tracking, i-Kids and Teddy – fone to enable parents to track their children by mobile phone through GPRS. At the same time, the application of RFID technology on children’s safety has been introduced by several companies. However, due to high prices and limited scope of application, it has not been widely used.

  At Far East, as a result of increasing crimes, the RFID technology in the field of children’s safety has been recognized and applied.

  In South Korea, Daejeon known as “technology city”, started a project called “safety net for children” in 2008. The project was about to embed a RFID tag at each student’s school bag from 10 selected schools in Daejeon. A RFID reader is provided at every school gate. When students are in and out of school, the automatic cognitive process will send parents a SMS.  Then parents will be able to know their child is in the school or on the way home. Similarly, at a Japanese city Osaka, the Department of Education chose a school as an example: the students’ school bags were embedded with RFID tags , so that their parents can track them in and out of school.

  In China, there is no action yet from the government to promote RFID technology on children’s safety issue, but the author believes there will be a very large market for RFID technology on children’s safety in China. The reasons are:

  1_ Base on China’s 1.3 billion populations, the number of school students is high. According to 2003 survey, there are 425,800 primary schools in China, and 15 million school-age children.

  2_Due to the unbalanced economic development in China, the public security level is “less than satisfactory”. In May 2007, a program called “social visibility” (Phoenix Satellite Television) reported 20 million children went missing in China every year ,and 60 million children have not been found yet.

  3_Since one-child policy started in China, it has been 30 years. It resulted that most of the school-age children is the only child in family, and more likely is that student’s parents are also the only child from their families, which means that this child is the hope of three families. In these families, it is believed that children’s safety is always the first priority, and parents would not mind to pay anything for their children’s safety.

  4_ Telecommunications industry is well developed in China. The SMS cost can be as much cheaper as possible.

  However, popularizing a technology is a long process. The only shortcut might be obtaining the support from government. For example, in the United States, it is required that the production of all children’s products (specifically refers to all products for children under the age of 13) and its package must be embedded a permanent “track label” from 14^th August, 2009 (Chapter 103, “Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act”). This is an good example and indicate that governments have been aware that RFID technology in the field of children’s safety can play a more important role.

  Perhaps one day when the Chinese Government promulgates the similar rule for children’s safety, it is a signal for a rapid development of RFID technology in China.

  For all RFID companies, however, they cannot just wait for the signal.

   
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  Derek Du 16:51 on July 11, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: China (2), Railway, RFID (2), TICKET   

  RFID to achieve Real-name train ticket in China ? 

  Chunyun refers to the extremely high traffic load of transportation in China around the time of Chinese new year. The high traffic load usually begins 15 days before the Lunar New Year, and lasts for around 40 days. This period is also called Spring Festival travel season, or Chunyun period. The number of passengers during the Chunyun period has exceeded the population of China, hitting the 2-billion mark in 2006.

  Due to the basic nature of Chinese railway tickets and the loosely set limitations on the number of “standing tickets” ,Scalpers profit greatly during the Chunyun period. Organizations of scalpers have emerged, and the scalpers inside the sometimes intricate network work collectively to make the most gain out of the tickets. They pick up tickets in great numbers minutes after they go on sale, and then deal them out in and around the railway station at highly inflated prices.

  The Chinese government tried a lot of ways to stop the Scalpers, but the effect was not obvious. Many people and media has suggested using a real-name ticket system in China. Actually, the real-name system was suggested for many years,but the railway departments always use various excuses to reject it out. Programs and technologies should not be the problem, Because the market has a lot of very good technology can solve this problem, RFID technology is one of them.