After understanding the different frequencies of RFID technology, we will talk about the development of this technology in different countries worldwide. The Radio Frequency & RFID Solution Applications is developing at a high speed. We are able to utilize many RFID labels in our daily life now. So until now how much money and power has been invested in the development of RFID Radio Frequency Identification?
The USA government is always a untiring advocate of radio frequency identification technology. The RFID standard was made, relative software and hardware are developed and applied in all over the world. The standard of Europe follows the American EPC Global Standard. As for the closed system’s applications, Europe did as well as USA. Japan nos already has its own UID standard with the support of domestic manufacturers. However they still have a long way to go if they want this standard to be an international one. RFID technology is of great importance for Korea and government of Korea plays a great attention on the development of this technology. However Korea dos not have definite standard of RFID. Nowadays, USA, England, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan and South Africa all own very developed RFID products.
RFID technology is mainly developed in the Europe and USA market with mature technology. The semiconductor providers such as Philips, Siemens, ST and TI monopolies the market of RFID chips. The international giants such as IBM, HP, Microsoft, SAP, Sybase and Sun occupy the market of middleware and focus on the study of system integration. Big Companies such as Alien, Intermec, Avery, Transcore, Impinj and RFIDHY provide RFID labels, antennas and readers, etc…
1.USA
Factories such as TI and Intel has invested a great deal of money in RFID chip development. The company Symbol has developed the scanner that can read both bar code and RFID products. IBM, Microsoft and HP are also developing relative software to support the application of RFID technology. In recent years in USA, RFID technology has been applied to many fields including transportation, vehicle administration, identification, automatic control of production line, warehouse management and logistics tracking, etc… In the logistics management, there are more than ten companies who have promised to utilize RFID application including Walmart, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson and P&G, etc… Moreover, there are many logistics applications in the united parcel service and in the logistics tracking for the Department of Defense. It is worth noting that USA government is a very positive advocate of the RFID technology. According to the Contract of the Department of USA, from 2005.01.01, all military supplies are equipped with RFID chips. The American FDA suggest to track the fraud medicine with RFID labels. The American SSA began to utilize RFID to track the tabulations and handbooks with RFID from early 2005.
The development of the Internet of Things will provide a lot of great opportunities for RFID technology. However, the expensive cost of RFID is an obstacle for this technology. The self help shopping without sales representatives is a new trend to apply RFID technology. The self help supermarket, self help mart and automatic refrigerator will supply a great opportunity for the RFID technology, meanwhile its competitor AI technology is still not mature enough until now.
