From RFID to Internet of Things

RFID has always been considered as a high-tech strategic high technology in the field of scientific research and a paragraph of RFID technology white paper released by our country in 2006. To this end, governments and enterprises throughout the country have actively invested in it. All of us here are the backbone. In the government field, Shanghai is also the earliest investment. In May 2004, it supported a special project. It started from the development of electronic label chip design, multimedia equipment manufacturing, middleware development, and logistics applications. A few months later, Guangdong and Shenzhen In addition, Hong Kong has also launched a large-scale government support for the development of RFID-enabled RFID tags. We also supported the government. At that time, the government and the business community did not quite know what RFID was. Then it opened a Shanghai RFID base in Shanghai in December 2004 to demonstrate to the government and the business community what RFID is. At its peak, Three to four delegations visit each week. On September 27th, 2005, an RFID Internet of Things production, research and development alliance was established in Shanghai. At that time, we called the RFID Internet of Things because it was a two-phase process, but one of them was relatively long. The second one said that everyone was connected to the Internet of Things. Feeling imaginary, and later our own emboldenedness was not enough. By 2008 we had become an RFID industry, research and research alliance, and we had to get rid of the Internet of Things. In 2008, we abandoned the three words of the Internet of Things, and our organizer registered an IOT media in industry and commerce to create the influence and driving force of the Internet of Things industry. I think this is a very far-sighted vision. Shanghai also did a series of good demonstration work. One is the demonstration and standard of RFID container transportation. This was done by Shanghai Port Group. In December 2005, a domestic container was built between Shanghai Port and Yantai Port. RFID tags were used to demonstrate RFID applications for domestic containers.

In March 2008, it launched the world’s first demonstration of container applications on international routes from Shanghai to Atlanta. Based on these two tasks, in May 2009, at the 17th working group meeting held in Paris, France, the International Organization for Standardization approved the eight-year international standard port cargo container RFID tag proposed by Shanghai Port. We obtained the international number, namely IFO168, which is also a major breakthrough for China in the field of shipping international standards. This is also the result of several years of demonstrations to obtain such a standard and work out such a label. At the same time, we are also the country's June 2006, 15 ministries and commissions such as the Ministry of Science and Technology released the main force of the writing of China's RFID white papers. In October 2006, it was officially unveiled. It was also approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology and built a national RFID industrialization base in Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech. At present, it is also the only national RFID industrialization base.

From 2006 to 2009, it has supported RFID for four consecutive years to solve everyday routine work of the people and has been included in the municipal government’s practical project. RFID tags have been placed on all dangerous chemical cylinders and liquefied petroleum gas cylinders. The application rate of liquid ammonia and liquefied cylinders has reached 100%, RFID applications for various types of industrial products have reached 90%, and all dangerous chemical cylinders in the Yangtze River Delta have entered Shanghai. None of these RFID tags can enter.

This is the latest and what our team has done. In October 2009, we formally invested in a business-operated RFID-based future store in Nanjing Road, Shanghai, and the Shanghai World Expo licensed goods flagship store distribution center. Everyone has the opportunity to visit Shanghai. Can go to our store to guide, and now the relevant results have entered the Shanghai World Expo Park City Museum, to the future exhibition area.

RFID is booming. As a research institution like us, there is a public service platform. What should we do? RFID and barcodes are different. After several decades of efforts, bar codes have become more mature. In the application process, RFID actually uses the same tags, different system providers and enterprises to implement the site, and its effects will be very different. Frequent customers complained that RFID integrators were taking advantage of the tags and solved the problem at once, but after they left, they could suddenly have problems within a few days, and couldn't find out where the problems were. This is one, Second, he may not be able to solve the problem. He patted the buttocks. After a while, he went to a company again. No, he left again. As a result, our RFID industry has a poor reputation among many customers, saying that we take the customer's work site. As a place we learn on our own, this may hurt our customers' enthusiasm. What should we do? RFID is not a mystery thing, nor is it something that can be used after 10 years. RFID is real. We need to use a series of means to let RFID go down the altar in the eyes of enterprises, not an unattainable technology. It is a technology that can create benefits for enterprises. So companies often ask a few questions. First, how much does RFID cost? Posted a label, two or three dollars, I have not so much profit, use what you do? So we need to reduce costs. Second, RFID will have a variety of problems in the application process. We must improve its application performance. Thirdly, when the RFID industry implements RFID projects in enterprises, it should have a complete methodology to guide us to the facts on the site and avoid project failure due to implementation problems. Also, RFID companies are still relatively weak and we need to establish a public service system to support it.

So I summed it up for RFID application engineering, the first problem to improve RFID performance. The companies that make RFID chips are just a dozen homes, but the stickers are very different. You are stuck on the glass, or stuck on the carton. You are stuck on the wooden tray, or on the metal, and the stickers are very different. There are tens of thousands of kinds. This is a lot of customers and system operators. They may not be clear about themselves. They buy the standard labels from the label manufacturers, go to the scene to try one, and one patch does not work. He thinks that it is our technical solution. No way. Virtually every tag has its design-oriented application. We did a study. There is a picture on the left. The images used by these tags vary widely. But you can conclude that this series of tags evolved from an old ancestor, and the performance of such tags is basically similar to this. You can analyze the existing label provided by some manufacturers, and after testing, theoretical analysis, into a number of categories, this time we create a database, so that system integrator customers only need to directionality when selecting labels. What kind of adhesive material, through such an expert system to recommend to the system supplier and customers several best-suited labels for him, and then he will test it again, not to waste it, the first is the RFID tag selection system.

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