What is the trend of RFID technology development?

The automatic identification technology represented by radio frequency identification technology (RFID) is an integrated technology involving many fields such as microelectronic technology, materials science, microwave technology, computer software and modern management science. The application space is vast, and the people The economy is inextricably linked in all fields, especially in the context of the adjustment of the national economic structure and the use of information technology by the entire society to improve economic efficiency and quality. RFID and other automatic identification technologies will gradually penetrate into all aspects of social and economic life. To play a bigger and bigger role and have a broad development prospect.

RFID has already gone through more than 50 years and has experienced faster development in recent years. With the continuous advancement of technology, the types of RFID products will become more and more abundant, and applications will become more and more extensive. So looking ahead, what will happen to RFID? What are the development trends?

Biometrics will become a key technology for RFID With the rapid development of technologies such as optoelectronic technology, microcomputer technology, image processing technology and pattern recognition, especially the maturity of embedded face recognition technology, biometric identification technology has been listed as a 21st century pair. One of the top ten technologies that have revolutionized human society. In recent years, the identification of human biological features such as voice recognition, face recognition, signature recognition, fingerprint recognition, hand shape recognition, and iris iris recognition has been developed and applied at home and abroad.

In the past two years, biometrics technology has been applied in part to many important industries and fields such as public security, security, customs, finance, military, airports, border defense ports, and security, as well as smart access control, attendance, and other civilian markets. Experts predict that by 2012, biometrics technology will enter a rapid growth period, biometrics recognition era has arrived, biometric identification technology will become an important part of RFID, and promote the rapid development of RFID technology.

The electronic code of product EPC will become the new representative of Internet of Things technology. With the economic globalization and the acceleration of information network process, in order to meet the identification and efficient recognition of individual products, in recent years, a product electronic code EPC (Electronic Product Code) technology products Came into being. EPC system is a complex, comprehensive and comprehensive system, including EPC coding, network, communication protocols, etc. It is based on the computer Internet and radio frequency technology RFID, using the global unified logo system coding technology to give each entity object a unique The code thus constructs an Internet of Things that enables real-time sharing of global item information.

Combining RFID and EPC technology of the Internet system, the future will become the main standard of modern supply chain management. The concept of “Internet of Things”, which tracks and traces shipments worldwide through the Internet, has gradually become a new direction for the development of the logistics industry. . It can be said that EPC will become an important new technology for reforming commodity retail settlement, logistics distribution and product tracking management after barcode technology and RFID. It can be foreseen that RFID/EPC automatic identification technology will bring international shipping logistics and global A revolution in the supply chain will further promote China's automatic identification of industrial development.

RFID data processing capacity will become stronger and stronger. The demand for software will increase. For companies using RFID technology, how to effectively handle the massive data brought by RFID technology to reduce costs and improve management efficiency will be very urgent in the future. The problem. So companies need a powerful data management platform that includes back-end databases, applications, and the right analytical capabilities to handle the huge amounts of data generated by RFID systems. Otherwise, companies may be overwhelmed with large amounts of data and will not be able to enjoy the benefits of RFID technology.

Currently, software is relatively simple in RFID applications, and the average cost does not exceed 13% of the overall RFID project. In the next few years, with the development of large-scale logistics applications and open-loop applications, massive RFID information processing, transmission, and security pose new challenges to RFID system integration and application technologies. Software will be an important part of RFID project expenditures. In part, in some applications, even the cost of the hardware may be exceeded.

This is mainly reflected in the fact that the share of software/middleware in the overall RFID market will continue to increase and become a new impetus for the RFID market. Experts believe that the future of RFID system integration software will be embedded, intelligent, reconfigurable direction, through the establishment of RFID public service system, will make the RFID information resources more in-depth and extensive organization, management and utilization.

Because of the increasing importance of software/middleware in RFID systems, domestic and foreign manufacturers have invested more and more technical research in this area to meet the huge demand in the future and have achieved certain results, including: The Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has launched RFID public service system infrastructure software and blood, food, and drug traceability management middleware, Tsinghua Tongfang's ezRFID middleware, and ezONEezFramework basic application suite.

RFID will be more convenient and efficient, and it will evolve toward multi-functionality With the continuous improvement and popularization of 3G mobile technology and IT technology, the development trend of RFID reader design and manufacturing will be to multi-functional, multi-interface, multi-standard and to the module. Development, miniaturization, portable, embedded direction; At the same time, multi-reader coordination and networking technology will become one of the future development directions.

Future RFID readers will become more sophisticated, more portable, and higher read rates. RFID tags can be used not only in liquids, metals and other environments, but can even be integrated into temperature sensors, washable and able to withstand extreme temperatures, and can be used to monitor recording temperatures. Currently, radio frequency technology is very helpful for cryogenic transportation and remote sensing applications for foods that are sensitive to temperature changes. Today, such sensor tags are widely used in the cold chain/food chain industry and have outstanding results. In the food chain, RFID can achieve full tracking from the field to the dining table. Jiangsu Hengbao Co., Ltd. has developed product solutions such as smart cards and electronic label manufacturing, saying that “starting from one seed and finally being eaten by anyone can be traced.”

RFID is becoming more and more networked and accelerates integration with other industries. When RFID systems are used to a certain extent, each product will be given its own unique identity through electronic tags, especially with the increasing popularity of 3G and triple-play networks. The combination of RFID with the Internet and e-commerce will be an inevitable trend, and will also change people's traditional ways of life, work, and learning. At the same time, as with other IT industries, when standards and key technologies are resolved and breakthroughs, RFID will also integrate with other industries such as 3C and 3 networks to form larger industrial clusters and be more widely used to achieve cross-regional and cross- Industry application.

In addition, today's chip frequency, capacity, antennas, packaging materials and other combinations are becoming more and more product serialization, and RFID will integrate with other high-tech acceleration, such as combining with sensors, GPS, and biometrics. All this will promote the development of RFID from single identification to multi-functional identification.

Unification of standards and alignment with international standards will be the focus of China's RFID work in the future. Each RFID tag has a unique paired identification code. If its data format is diverse and incompatible with each other, RFID products using different standards cannot be interconnected. Interflow, this will be a serious system against the circulation of goods under economic globalization. Therefore, the inconsistency of standards is an important factor affecting the global development of RFID. At present, the RFID market has formed a situation in which Japan’s “ubiquitous ID center” and the US’s two major standards organizations, EPCGloble, are independent and incompatible.

Nowadays, China has also begun to develop its own RFID standards and adhere to the principle of “promoting standards with applications and applying with standard tapes” and issuing timely applicable universal standard frequencies to give Chinese companies a rapid development space and time. At present, the specific standard content has not yet been fully implemented, but it is certain that code management, core technologies and databases are the focus of future RFID work.

Many countries in Europe and America have gradually begun to develop their own standards, how to make these standards compatible with each other, so that an RFID product can be successfully circulated in the world is an important and urgent topic.

RFID will become safer, more practical and cheaper. If RFID technology is widely used in areas where information has better confidentiality requirements, there are still some technical problems, because there are no reliable and safe passive RFID systems that are widely used today. Mechanisms make it difficult to keep data confidential. Therefore, many RFID development service providers are fully investigating and seriously adopting security measures. Strong passwords, codes, and identity authentication technologies will be more widely used for R&D and application. If you want to destroy or clone RFID, you will be very difficult. At the same time, the relevant RFID laws will be formulated and implemented in the future, and RFID data will increasingly be protected by law. Illegal acquisition and use of data and documents in RFID tags will be considered a crime.

Also, RFID/NFC readers in smart mobile devices will enable people to conduct more extensive financial transactions on credit/debit cards or electronic wallets, mobile micropayments, etc., while printed electronics use organic and inorganic materials. It will also eliminate the need for expensive silicon chips. RFID tags will also be printed directly on the packaging so that they can be used more extensively for low-value goods – anti-counterfeiting or inventoried goods, and ultimately cost savings.

High-frequency and ultra-high frequency are the main application frequencies of RFID in the future. China's RFID technology is currently used, and most of them are mainly low-frequency (such as access control). Because of the promotion of the application of second-generation ID cards, the World Expo, and various smart cards, high frequencies are entering a very historical period, with an average annual speed of about 100 million. If the Chinese population will apply second-generation ID cards in the future, this application will maintain stable shipments for five years. At present, the concept of “Internet of Things” is used by the global EPC to depict people’s future beauty. The main applications are the distribution management of goods and warehouse management. The market is huge, and the electromagnetic characteristics of high-frequency and ultra-high frequency bands will be very high. Well play a role in this application area.

At present, China has become one of the world's important manufacturing and manufacturing bases. Along with the development trend of global supply chain RFID, China's RFID applications will surely expand toward UHF fields such as logistics and warehousing to meet the matching needs of buyers.

The demand for RFID personality is increasingly obvious, and the customization of the industry is more and more common. Different types of RFID user groups, due to differences in the nature of the operation, the industry, the scale of operations, and the stage of development, will lead to greater differences in the characteristics of RFID requirements and different requirements for RFID applications. Also larger. Therefore, industrialization and segmentation will be the development trend of RFID in the future, and it will also be a sharp winner.

Therefore, RFID systems will not only become more powerful in the future, but will also more effectively address industry needs. Some companies customize solutions for this specific industry, or jointly develop application plans. This trend will be further accelerated in the future. In the future, as the experience of RFID vendors continues to increase and the technology continues to increase, more applications for the needs of the industry will be provided, from retail to warehousing, from manufacturing to government, from transportation to finance, and more. The customization of the RFID industry has become increasingly apparent and has become easier. By 2012, forward-thinking companies will fully adopt RFID and use it as a corporate infrastructure to provide stable data streams of assets, inventory, and materials' real-time location and status to further enhance their competitiveness.

The market prospects for RFID in the domestic market are huge. Although there are gaps and differences in some technologies or applications between the RFID industry in China and foreign countries, the market has become more and more clear, and the output value of RFID will continue to rise significantly in the future. trend. According to research conducted by IDC, the total output value of RFID in China is expected to reach 16 billion yuan in 2010, and it is expected to exceed 20 billion yuan by 2012.

Whether it is an RFID manufacturer or a user company, it is only by grasping the trend of RFID development and technology trends that R&D and promotion will be able to better serve the management, marketing, and competition of domestic enterprises and grab competition opportunities.