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  Derek Du 18:54 on May 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Children (2), China (14), EXPO 2010 (3), RFID (17), RFID bracelet, Safety   

  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 00:24 on April 8, 2010 Permalink
  Tags: China (14), Food Safety (2), Food Supply Chain (2), RFID (17), Safety   

  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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  Derek Du 18:05 on July 11, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Children (2), 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.