Development of RFID Application

RFID systems are now used for a variety of industrial and consumer applications, including access control, asset management, and warehouse automation. 1) The price of the tag developed by Hitachi, Ltd., has fallen to as low as 30 yen. A tag with a UHF belt for long-distance communication is currently one of the main trends. We report on two systems using the RFID tag in this paper. One is for the management of sports uniforms, and the other is for the control of the printing process. Recently, to identify employee uniforms, the Imperial Hotel is using RFID tags developed by Fujitsu Frontech. 2) The washable RFID tags were hidden under the collar of the uniform. A red RFID tag was pasted onto the soccer uniform. The sports uniform is softer than the worker's uniform. Another system is used to manage the processes in a printing factory. The current system uses barcodes, which presents a problem, as it takes time for the worker to read each individual barcode when many jobs come to one worker at the same time. The barcode makes it easy to miss, therefore, leading to Development of RFID Application