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  Derek Du 03:32 on July 7, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: China, NFC (4), NOKIA, RF-SIM (2), RFID (17)   

  Nokia’ fight on hands, NFC Smart phones 

  Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s new executive vice president, has announced that it will incorporate NFC into all new smart phones next year. The world’s largest mobile phone maker just lowered its 2010 earnings outlook in June, and integrated its own smart phone sector and Ovi service, with a view to developing a competing smart phone against Apple and Blackberry.

  “we have a fight on our hands,” The new vice president Anssi Vanjoki wrote. “The first battle is to bring you products and services you will want to own and use, to inspire you to create and do new things in this ever-changing digital world. I’m ready to take this challenge on, and so is the entire Nokia team.”

  Maybe for Mr.Anssi Vanjoki, to incorporate NFC into smart phones would be his first battle. According to the statistics from market research firm IDC, Nokia sold 67.7 million smart phones by last year, almost double the number of RIM did (3450 million). Therefore, once a significant number of handsets have NFC then the technology will take off, and by the time Apple and others gets round to embedding NFC into their mobile device, Nokia will be a technology leader again.

  In China, Although the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information has not decided yet a national mobile payment standard between 2.4G and 13.56MHz, but with the tendency of the three major carriers have adopted the NFC standard, market prospects became clear. Now with the Nokia’ new smart phone policy, it can be said, NFC almost won the standards battle.

   

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  Derek Du 01:19 on June 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: China, E-Wallet (2), Mobile phone (2), Mobile Wallet (4), NFC (4), RF-SIM (2), RFID (17), RFID market (3)   

  Battle of RF-SIM and NFC 

  Recently, China Mobile formally Suspend RF-SIM mobile phone payment project (Mobile Wallet), the project will not be restart within two years for a conservative estimate. This result is a direct contest between China Mobile and China Unionpay, the only domestic credit card organization in China, which they support RF-SIM and NFC (Near Field Communication) separately.

  RF-SIM technology led by China Mobile use 2.4 G frequencies, which is not compatible with NFC (13.56MHz frequency) use by China Unionpay. Although China Mobile has the world’s largest mobile phone user group, but It’s too hard for China Mobile’s 2.4G standard to become primary frequency wireless communication technology in Chinese market as UnionPay’s 13.56MHz technology has being widely used by the financial POS, bus, subway, gas stations and more other fields. If China Mobile continues to push 2.4G standard, it means that not only RF-SIM card need to purchase one by one, but also full replacement of POS machines across China. The costs will reach hundreds of millions dollars.

  According to the statistics of Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information, China’s mobile phone users reached 780 million in the first quarter. If 40% of Chinese mobile phone users choose the mobile payment service like in Japan and South Korea, China will have more than 300 million users to pay by mobile. Different wireless communication frequency standards will lead to redundant investment and other issues in such huge market. To solve this, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Technology is to promote a mobile payment standard system. Although the result is unsettled, but the industry view was expressed that, with the suspension of China Mobile’s RF-SIM project, 13.56MHz NFC technology is likely to be the final winner.

  It is uncertain that who will become leader in the field of mobile payments in China, but one thing is certain, that no one can dominate the market, only to cooperate together for a bigger cake.

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    Elin 11:30 on June 29, 2010 Permalink

    Oh, so China Mobile has officially stated that they will not commercialize their mobile payment service based on RFID?

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  Rui Wang 02:21 on June 7, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Beijing, China, ETC, RFID (17)   

  Rapid Development of ETC RFID system in Beijing 

  ETC (electronic toll collection) RFID system is a better solution for urban traffic congested problems. China operated ETC RFID system for trial since 2004 at Chinese south-eastern coastal areas, despite a marked effect to solve congestion; the system did not receive widespread coverage. For the car owners to enjoy an express ETC RFID service, they need to pay 450 Chinese Yuan (about 70 US Dollars) to buy a RFID car tag, which is the reason they would rather choose to waiting in a long queue to pay by cash.

  Huaxia Bank, a small Chinese bank, their Beijing branch with Beijing Highway Electronic Toll System Co., Ltd. lunched a joint bank card called “Sutong Card”. Registered user of “Sutong card” can enjoy 5% off discount of high-way tolls by use ETC RFID system and the user’ highway tolls automatically transfer from “Sutong Card” accounts. Most important, user of “China-speed Card” will receive RFID car tag free of charge.

  As far as I know, the total number of ETC RFID users in Beijing is about 170,000 by earlier this year, but 30,000 “Sutong Card” has already issued within 45 days of card launched. Consider there are 5 million vehicles registered in Beijing city, I believe a huge market prospects for ETC RFID system.

   
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  Derek Du 18:54 on May 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Children (2), China, EXPO 2010 (3), RFID (17), RFID bracelet, Safety (3)   

  Use technology to protect children 

  Just over a month’s time, a series of campus massacre against children suddenly become the most focus of attention in China. How can we protect our children? This is a big question mark in all parent’ mind, after all, children are everything to us. My answer is to use technology to improve the protection of the children, hope that more and more companies find a better solution via RFID or other related technologies to archive that.

  Give an example here, Abilia experience center, the children’s professional experience center from the Shanghai World Expo which selected 25 representative future careers for 7-15 years old children to experience growth in the fun. As the area of Abilia experience center reach 4,200 square meters and parents cannot follow their child to enter, so the RFID technology has introduced in order to track children’s location within Abilia center. Each child will wear an RFID bracelet on their hand at the entrance, and each child’s RFID bracelet has a matching bracelet also distributed to the child’s parents. The RFID readers across whole center can read the children’ RFID bracelets and track their location; the parents can also obtain the specific location of their children by scan their bracelet in front of RFID kiosk just outside the entrance.

  Actually, such technology has being used by “BabyBoss professional experience city” in Taiwan two years ago. Our children will be more effective protected by more application of such technology.

   
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  Rui Wang 15:29 on May 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: China, Internet of Things (2), RFID (17), RFID market (3)   

  China’ 2009 RFID Market Ranks 3rd In The World 

  “RFID and Internet of things in China Development Report 2009″ has released by China Information Industry Chamber of Commerce at 6^th May 2010, which indicate the industry of RFID and Internet of Things grows very quickly. China has the capabilities that independently developed and produced with low frequency, high frequency and microwave electronic tag and reader. China also made great progress at the chip design and manufacturing, packaging labels, reader design and manufacturing, systems integration and management software etc.

  At present, about hundreds of Chinese companies involved with the internet of things industry. Shanghai, Tianjin, Wuxi, Shenzhen, Shenyang, Wuhan and Chengdu have established RFID industrial park. Statistics show that in 2009, China’s RFID market increase 29.3%, reached 8.51 billion Yuan which about 1.25 billion USD, ranks third in the world after Britain and the United States.

  China’s RFID application areas are continuously expanding，from identification, electronic ticket, to asset management, food and drug safety supervision, electronic documents, library, logistics etc. Furthermore, some cities are chosen as pilot city for Internet of Things applications. Qingdao as example, RFID applications has being used in financial, industrial production, public security, taxation, urban public utilities and more than 10 areas.

   
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  Tao Wang 12:51 on May 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: China, Food Safety (2), Food Supply Chain (2), RFID (17)   

  NEC’ RFID Cold Chain System for Chinese Fast-food Industry 

  China’s fast-food industry grows rapidly. China now has more than 150 fast-food chain companies, and 3-4 million fast-food stores nationwide. Founded in 1987, the China Cuisine Association is a national restaurant industry association, which enacted numbers of national food industry standards that commissioned by the government. Recently, NEC (China) Ltd. and China Cuisine Association reached an agreement in Beijing that to build a RFID Cold Chain System, to ensure the safety of fast food in Chinese market.

  Food poisoning and other food safety emergencies often occur in summer due to the high temperature.  The numerous shops, wide distribution, variety of raw materials and large quantities are the characters of fast –food industry. To ensure the food safety, row meat and other staple food needs in a specific temperature processing, storage and transport.

  By NEC’s RFID Cold Chain system, food temperature, humidity and other data changes during transport can be record through the RFID tag sensors. All data can be check through network as reference, in order to take more targeted regulatory measures to prevent food poisoning and other food safety incidents. Furthermore, in case of a food safety incident, the real-time monitoring system can find the origin and distribution of the problem food in a very short time, which helps the food control department to minimize the effect of incident.

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    Don Richardson 14:02 on May 17, 2010 Permalink

    Dear Tao Wong

    Please provide me with the contact details of the NEC China Limited responsible party, and email address, so I can communicate further on this interesting project

    Thank you

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    Tao Wong 00:34 on May 18, 2010 Permalink

    Hi Don, please check your email.

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  Derek Du 01:59 on April 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: China, Competitions, Internet of Things (2), ShangHai (3)   

  Creativity and application of China’s Internet of Things Competition 

  From Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Wuxi “Internet of things” Technology Park at August 2009, to “speed up the Internet of things technology development in China” writes into the annual government report by March 2010. The concept of “Internet of Things” has never been taken so seriously like today in China.

  On 27^th April, the first “Creativity and application of China’s Internet of Things Competition” was officially launched in Shanghai. The purpose of this competition is to find good business ideas about Internet of Things and promote the applications on the Internet of Things. Government officials from Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences have attended the opening ceremony.

  Competition will last 3 months, creativity and application is the two sub-parts of the competition.All creative work, commercial design, application examples and innovative business models about the Internet of Things are welcome nationwide, the final winners will be announced in September this year. Will you join in? click here then.

   
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  Derek Du 02:35 on April 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: China, Disneyland, Hong Kong, RFID (17)   

  CostuMagic, RFID system from Hong Kong Disneyland 

  Hong Kong Disneyland is the world’s fifth Disneyland and reaches millions of tourists every year. As one of the largest “wardrobe” in Hong Kong, more than 200,000 apparel and accessories has managed by the Disneyland. More than 6500 pieces of costume distributed to 2,500 cast members daily, and every single member needs 3 minutes to register to get their costume. You can imagine that 50 Disneyland colleagues waiting in the dressing room which just like shopping in a supermarket checkout point.

  Since September last year, a self-service costumes borrow system (CostuMagic) has introduced to Hong Kong Disneyland which using radio frequency identification technology, the time of lend costumes to employees has being greatly saved. By CostuMagic, cast members just need to pick up their costume from dressing room, scan their staff card and costume (RFID tag inside) at one of four sets of self-services kiosks which outside the dressing room, and… that’s it! Plus the system will notice cast member if they choose wrong size of costumes from their actual size, awesome! According to Disneyland official, this RFID system enhanced the efficiency over half.

  CostuMagic, the success of RFID technology in Hong Kong Disneyland has awarded “RFID application and creativity silver” by Hong Kong Article Numbering Association, and is now being used at Disneyland Florida.

   
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  Rui Wang 00:24 on April 8, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: China, Food Safety (2), Food Supply Chain (2), RFID (17), Safety (3)   

  RFID for Food Supply Chain 

  Hong Kong always needs the huge support of food supply from mainland China since 1962 due to their limited resource and geographical reasons. The Hong Kong citizen concerns about food product quality from mainland since  several food safety crisis happen in mainland by 2005. As the result, the HK Government Center for Food Safety was established on May 2006 to ensure the safety of food sold in Hong Kong.

  Guangdong Province is located on north of Hong Kong, 80% of mainland food supplied to Hong Kong are from Guangdong. The local government encourages business to use RFID technology in food products fields, to ensure the quality of food supplied to Hong Kong. The successful “RFID pig tag” pilot project as example, a total of 640 pigs has tested with “RFID pig tag” which is different from the traditional livestock ear tag. It will provide more and more accurate information, including the origin of pig; the feed during breeding; the drugs and vaccines had been injected etc. The quarantine testing result indicate that all pigs meets the health and safety requirements of HK SAR.

  Not only in Guangdong, more and more Chinese local governments and related business are focuses on RFID technology to track food products through the supply, so that the food industry can achieve two most important objectives by RFID solution, which is tracking the origin of food and the fully transparency in the food supply chain.

   
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  Tao Wang 17:38 on March 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Cargo Ship, China, EXPO 2010 (3), ShangHai (3)   

  RFID cargo ship monitoring system 

  The opening of Shanghai Expo 2010 just around the corner, at 24^th March, Zhejiang Province where near Shanghai, issued the first inland waterway RFID access card (RFID access card) to the owner of “Jiashan 1322” cargo ship.

  Zhejiang is the south gate of Shanghai, There is a total of 17 water route and 6 sea route between Zhejiang and Shanghai. The Expo Park is located at both sides of Huangpu River which runs through Shanghai city, over thousand ships entering and leaving Port of Shanghai everyday from Zhejiang with products of coal, hazardous chemicals, building materials etc. With a considerable part of those ships needs to approach the Expo core control zone, to establish this RFID cargo ship monitoring system is not only for the security issue, but also a more cost-effective approach.

  This RFID access card is about credit card size and normally posted on the inside windscreen of cab. At present, Zhejiang local government is already installed many RFID readers on the side of northern waterway. When a cargo ship with RFID access card approaching, the ship and the cargo information, navigation routes, crew information will be transmitted to the monitoring system.

  “This is like the ship installed with a bar code, we can have their information without to stop them. This really will save a lot of time for us.” said from a local officer.