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  Derek Du 01:59 on April 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: China (14), Competitions, Internet of Things (2), ShangHai   

  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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  Tao Wang 17:38 on March 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Cargo Ship, China (14), EXPO 2010 (3), ShangHai   

  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.

   
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  Derek Du 09:07 on March 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: China (14), EXPO 2010 (3), RFID Ticket, ShangHai, TICKET (2)   

  RFID Technology for Shanghai Expo 2010 ticketing system 

  The FIFA World Cup 2006 at Germany has used  tickets of  built-in RFID chips to prevent fraud  ticket,  3.2 million tickets sold  for  64 matches. 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is the first ever Olympic Games to use the RFID technologies on game tickets,  7 million tickets are loaded with RFID chips developed by China itself. This year, the upcoming May 1 opening of the Shanghai World Expo will also use RFID  as anti-counterfeiting  technology,  the six months Expo is  expected to attract  70  million  visitors from around the world, their ticketing system will be the largest application of RFID tickets ever.

  In order to gain the experience of RFID technology use on ticketing system,  Shanghai has experienced from small-scale demonstration from  2005  onwards.  For  four  consecutive  years in Shanghai at the Masters Cup tennis tournament,  the full implementation of the RFID ticketing system, which also is the world’s first successful case of RFID used on large sports competition tickets.

  The RFID tickets for the Expo are not  only play  a  defensive  role  from  fake tickets,  while the RFID readers around the Expo Park can read the visitors’ basic information through their ticket.  In case of emergency, the security team can easily find a certain visitor  and his certain position within the park; more quickly and effectively respond can be made by use this technology.

  In  case to  avoid  the  long  waiting  queue outside some popular exhibition hall, visitors can also use their RFID tickets to reserve their “seat”. 180 self-reserve machines located throughout the Expo Park, visitors only need to choose their favorite venue,  and then swipe their tickets on the self-reserve machine, a small receipt will print out which indicate a specified time to visit the Hall.

  More than above,  by use the RFID ticket,  visitor  can  rent  an  umbrella  or  even  a  wheelchair.  Therefore,  if  you  are  going  to the Shanghai Expo within the next few months, take a good care of your entry ticket and enjoy the “Better City, Better Life”.