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It requires a technology called Near Field Communication (NFC), which is an extension of Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology that combines the interface of a smart card and a reader into a single device. This allows two-way communications between endpoints, where earlier systems were one-way.
For two devices to communicate using NFC one device must have an NFC reader/writer and one must have an NFC tag.
Benefits of Mobile Payment using NFC:
Pallet Tracking is essential to enhance productivity, cost efficiencies and track reusable assets to increase return on investment. Pallet movement contributes significantly towards the handling, transport and storage costs. As goods move on pallets through a warehouse or a supply chain, it becomes imperative to track their movement and collect information regarding their location, usage, process flow, and available inventory. Access to such critical information enables quick transportation of goods through optimal resource planning, accurate implementation, involving least handling time and cost.
This information can be recorded with the help of RFID tags which can be attached to the pallets or built into them. Omnia’s RFID tags for pallets are designed to withstand water, chemicals, and shock and temperature variation leading to excellent performance in harsh and outdoor environments.
Benefits of Pallet tracking using RFID Technology:
RFID windshield tags mounted on the windshield is specific to users, the details for each vehicle is mapped prior to the process. RFID technology allows for easy and fast communication between tag and reader. RFID readers are mounted on the entry and exit gate as the vehicle enters the range of the reader it activates the tag, the tag transfers the data from its IC to the system and allows entry or exit of the vehicle. This helps in allowing access to a vehicle to a secure gated parking lot, automates billing and electronic collection of parking fees, and eliminates the scope of misplacing parking tokens/tickets.
RFID based parking management will allow vehicles to move without having to stop. Drivers will not have to stop at the point of circulation and parking tickets will be out of usage during entry-point and exit-point. The amount will be automatically deducted from the user’s account as the vehicle passes the gate, they can recharge their account according to requirement. Since there won’t be any waiting during Entry-point and exit-points the pollution problem will be avoided.
Benefits of RFID based Parking Management:
Doctors and hospitals are adopting high levels of automation in the treatment process. This is not restricted to the equipment they use to diagnose a patient or to carry out procedures, but also to track patients and their treatment. Healthcare systems are a very important part of the economy of any country and for public health. RFID technology implements smart patient management, monitoring, and tracking process that can be used in hospitals to automate and organize their information management.
Patients are made to wear RFID Wristband tags which are stored with information regarding their diagnosis, medical history, and treatment process. These RFID tags consist of unique identification numbers for each patient which will identify her/him in the health information system. As the patient moves through different steps in his treatment process, these tags become a medium to automatically identify the patient and retrieve information regarding treatment, medication cycle and also update records as and when the treatment progresses; it is saved in a database for further analysis.
Benefits of Patient Tracking through RFID:
In events management, RFID wristbands are used on a large scale to record entry-exit of visitors and monitor their movement. These wristband tags having unique ids can store visitor information. With RFID readers installed in multiple locations at the event, it becomes easy to track visitors’ movement.
For events such as exhibitions, data collection regarding their movement helps exhibitors and organizers study footfall, movement patterns, areas of interest of visitors across various market verticals. It also helps with branding activities as many companies enjoy sponsoring this RFID taggingactivity and acknowledging the arrival of visitors at multiple locations through TV pop ups. In concerts, these wristband tags can have attendee information stored regarding access, food and beverage package, etc. This helps in maintaining limited access to restricted areas and also in cashless transactions respectively.
Some more unique applications also make use of RFID wristband tags for identification and tracking of people. These include tracking of children’s movement in amusement parks and on beaches and tracking patients within hospitals or rehabilitation centers.
Benefits with RFID:
Counterfeit pharmaceutical is one of the most critical issues facing the pharmaceutical industry today. The business of selling fake drugs is escalating globally. Adoption of RFID hardware and software throughout the pharmaceutical industry from manufacturing to distribution and sale/consumption can help overcome this dangerous problem. Reliable, accurate and secure measures for tracking, tracing and authenticating pharma products across the supply chain are essential to protect consumers as well as pharmaceutical manufacturers’ brands.
When the manufacturer puts an RFID tag on the product, it stores all the static information about the product such as a lot number and expiry dates in a database for record-keeping. When the product moves across the supply chain, from the manufacturer to the wholesaler, this information of the tags is updated in the database holding the initial information.
This process is carried out through all phases of the movement of drugs, from the wholesalers to the distributors, to the hospitals and pharmacies. It increases visibility, traceability, and authentication of products to safeguard consumers’ health and protect the pharmaceutical industry overall.
Contactless radio frequency identification (RFID) systems provide a secure and convenient solution for a number of animal identification applications including livestock tracking, and the tagging of pets and racing pigeons For pigeon racing, electronic pigeon rings are used for fraud protection at pigeon races. To prevent fraud, the tags need to be encoded and as a result, authentication issues play a major role in this market.
Benefits of RFID in Tracking Pigeons:
Public transportation systems primarily involve controlled access, recording movement of passengers and ensuring fare collection. Across the world, these systems are automated or semi-automated and this involves the utilization of RFID Technology. RFID Tags are geared to perform all these functions and cater to the needs of such systems.
Tags can in the form of Smart Tickets, AFC tokens, or RFID enabled contactless cards. All these tags offer benefits of low-cost reusable tags, collection of accurate data, and quick and efficient movement of passengers. The need for manual intervention is also lower and accounting records are better maintained with respect to cash collections.
RFID tags can be used across railways, metros, buses among other public transport systems.
Benefits with RFID:
Radiofrequency identification is being adopted rapidly in a growing number of tire industry processes and will deliver more transparency, fewer rejected tires and production failures and better control of materials. Major tire producers are investigating new technologies to support their internal production processes and to gather more data per process step for individual tires.
RFID is changing the tire industry for the better and regulations are influencing tire manufacturers to make the required changes and implement RFID to provide further transparency into the tire supply chain.
RFID is helping manufacturers to identify, track, and manage tires all through their production and distribution processes, increasing read rates, cutting labor costs, reducing scrap and rework.
Omnia manufacturers two types of RFID tire tags: The UHF Spring tire tag is inserted inside the tire at the time of tire manufacturing (during the vulcanization process) and is therefore protected against tampering and outside elements. If the tire is already manufactured then this cannot be inserted, in this case, we put the spring tire tag in a patch and put this patch on the inside wall of the tire using a cold, chemical or heat cure process(this is just like patch, we use for putting a puncture on the tire).
Warehouse management is imperative across all industries and market verticals. RFID nowadays has become a significant part of warehouse management. It provides advantages to a warehouse by tracking, securing and managing items from the time they enter the yard/warehouse through the entire transit. Warehouse agents can benefit from RFID tags because this technology can make internal processes more efficient and improve responsiveness, by enabling real-time traceability of assets.
RFID tags can create such systems which are reliable and bring about efficiencies along these warehouse and distribution channels. Also, it monitors the progress of products through the warehouse through automatic identification of goods, maintaining accurate and timely records of their location, movement, dispatches, and delivery. RFID tags are attached to the materials, RFID Readers and Antennas are installed at the checkpoints which typically would be the entry/exit points of the warehouse; to record the movement of tagged assets.
A regular inventory update is possible by using handheld RFID devices, during the life span of the material in the warehouse. The data can be automatically updated for a lot of material at once. RFID technology holds the capacity of reading multiple (>100) tags simultaneously. Constant monitoring of the materials will be possible at any time by increasing the number of readers and antennas.
Benefits of RFID based Warehouse Management:
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a powerful tool for waste collection, disposal, and management of waste, delivering different benefits to city governments and waste removal contractors. The technology enhances the efficiency of the waste management process. RFID encourages traceability and real-time visibility in waste management operations.
Omnia Technologies offers a broad spectrum of LF and UHF passive contactless transponders that provide various levels of resistance to water, shock, and temperature variation making the tags suitable for harsh and outdoor environments. Waste bins that have RFID tags fitted in them are picked up by disposal trucks equipped with RFID readers. These readers record the exact time and place every time a waste bin is emptied. This automatic data collection makes data reporting cheaper, faster and accurate.
How RFID Technology works for Waste Management:
RFID Tags are attached to the waste bin at every household in all regions. This RFID tag contains a unique Identification which represents each household’s customer information. Also a reader, antenna and scale are mounted on a garbage truck. The reader and antenna communicate with the RFID tags. The RFID tag, located on the cart, transmits its unique ID. The reader on the truck will receive this ID as each waste bin is emptied, weighs the bin. Data collected from the tags, which can be linked with a timestamp, type of container, weight of the container, truck’s identity, load description and customer information, can also be stored in the truck’s onboard computer and later transferred to a central waste management system for data processing or can be directly to a host computer.
Benefits of Waste Management using RFID Technology:
