This week’s issue of the Denver Business Journal has a story about Skyetek and RFID. The article highlights Skyetek as a local area company (to the Colorado Front Range) and some of the benefits of using RFID. It also talks about one of our prominent customers, Vail Ski resort, which will use RFID […]
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China’s rapid industrialization has resulted in tens of millions of migrant workers leaving the countryside to try and find work in the booming eastern cities. Not surprisingly, this has made it very difficult for the government to keep track of people.
Shenzhen, which borders Guangzhou and Hong Kong, is one of the primary magnets for […]
RFID has been one of the most hyped technologies over the past decade. Study after study has breathlessly praised its benefits and predicted an industry worth billions upon billions of dollars. And on the contrarian side, we’ve heard ghastly visions of living in an Orwellian surveillance society.
RFID is a vibrant, steadily growing […]
New China RFID Regulations
Posted in RFID on Jul 10th, 2007
On April 20th, 2007, China released regulations for UHF 800/900 RFID. Unlike Europe and North America, there are two separate UHF bands. The first is between 840.25-844.75 MHz and the second is between 920.20-924.75 MHz. Both have a max power of 2W [erp].
The good news is that China finally has […]
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, has a population of 11 million. Like most large cities, traffic congestion is a big problem. When I visited a few months ago it took 2 hours to travel 30 miles across the city.
To address the problem, the Seoul government is implementing a policy that you […]
China RFID Market
Posted in China, RFID, Uncategorized on Aug 29th, 2006
Last year, WalMart announced that it would require its suppliers to use RFID chips to make it easier to track inventory through its supply chain. WalMart’s supply chain spans the globe, with a large percentage of its merchandise made in China.
At the same time, the Chinese government identified RFID as a key technology. China’s 11th […]
On June 9, fifteen Chinese ministries jointly issued China’s first RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) White Paper. The paper provides key insights into the future development of the RFID industry in China. Beause of its importance, the US Information Technology Office (USITO) has just finished translating it to English (here is the Chinese version).
The […]
While visiting Seoul I learned that its public transportation systems started using RFID systems for ticketing for way back in 1996. Still today, most major US and European cities use paper tickets. And instead of using RFID tags that look just like credit cards, there are a large assortment of shapes to choose […]
Shanghi public transportation Card (RFID)
Last year when I was in Shanghai the subway was still using paper tickets with magnetic strips - like you see for San Francisco’s BART system or Washington’s Metro system.
Recently the entire public transportation network (subway, train, bus, maglev and taxis) switched to RFID tickets. To the right is […]
Difficult week at work
Posted in RFID on May 1st, 2006
It has been a difficult week at work.
My official job is business development for China, but working at a startup, I often get involved with pleny of non-sales issues. This week I pitched in on a whole bunch of things. I provided advice to customers about what RFID tags to use, what antenna to use, […]
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