Countries Introduce Support Policies to Promote the Development of RFID Industry

Since 2010, the global RFID market has continued to heat up due to favorable factors such as the improvement of the economic situation and the development of the Internet of Things industry, and has continued to rise. It is expected that in 2012, the market size will reach more than US$20 billion. At the same time, there are more and more applications of RFID, and people's expectations for the development of RFID industry are also getting higher and higher. At present, RFID technology is in a period of rapid maturation. Many countries have actively promoted RFID as an important industry.

RFID will become a new growth engine

After a series of twists and turns, RFID technology has replaced the new technology that has been used for more than a decade in bar codes, as well as innovative technologies that can lead the IT industry's recovery. In the early days of RFID applications, Wal-Mart, the world's largest logistics company, announced that it would use RFID, and it immediately attracted the attention of the world. However, the promotion of RFID is more difficult than imagined. Since the market price of RFID chips is much higher than expected, related companies have felt great pressure. Many companies believe that it is very difficult to use RFID to increase revenue.

In South Korea, some industry insiders believe that the promotion of RFID/USN (Radio Frequency Identification/Ubiquitous Sensor Networks) is still too early: In large-scale logistics and manufacturing departments using RFID/USN, due to input costs, the technology The promotion is cautious. Some experts pointed out that in order for the government's demonstration projects to be able to continue to develop in the physical industry, RFID/USN must be tested for its effectiveness in enhancing the efficiency of the company's processes and deepen its understanding of RFID/USN.

The situation has changed now. The stumbling blocks for the promotion of RFID applications—the technical problems such as remote identification, recognition rate, and wrong operation have been greatly improved. At the same time, the price of RFID chips is also greatly reduced. Many governments have increased their confidence in nurturing the RFID industry as a new growth engine.

Policy support provides opportunities for RFID applications

Various governments have issued policies and taken measures to give strong support to the RFID industry, which not only provided opportunities for the application of RFID technology in various fields, but also actively promoted the production of RFID. These policies and measures have also become a springboard for the development of RFID industry in these countries.

Starting from the beginning of this year, the Korean government has successively introduced relevant policies to promote the development of RFID, in order to make it become the world's top three RFID and sensor network industry efforts. The South Korean government said that in order to strengthen its grasp of the industry's overall situation, high-tech identification tags will be applied in the steel, electronic and pharmaceutical products industries. South Korea's Ministry of Knowledge Economy said that the move aims to promote RFID tags and establish related sensor network systems to maintain real-time and accurate monitoring of various products. This project will receive approximately US$4.5 million in support from the country. The South Korean government has started a one-year support plan from the near future and has joined eight other companies to begin trials in the actual business environment.

In January this year, Seoul, South Korea, said it would spend 2.7 billion won to build an RFID public bicycle demonstration project. South Korea’s other national departments also successively launched a series of projects on RFID: Korea’s Institute of Oceanography issued a policy to build an RFID asset management system, and South Korean Police Agency announced the implementation of the fourth RFID basic file management system expansion project, the Ministry of Land and Maritime Affairs of Korea. Launched a project on building the USN marine group and integration service in Shuntian area. The Korea Ministry of Administration and Security launched the 2010 RFID expansion project for the use of video files.

From a global perspective, the United States has been at the forefront of the world in the establishment of RFID standards and the development and application of related hardware and software technologies. The U.S. government has been an active promoter of RFID applications. For example, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recommended that drug makers use RFID to track drugs that are most often counterfeit. The U.S. Department of Social Welfare (SSA) began formal use of RFID technology to track SSAs several years ago. Forms and manuals.

Endless variety of applications

In all areas of social life, RFID technology is blooming everywhere, and various applications emerge in an endless stream, and the scope of application continues to expand.

Apple is the first company reported to have applied RFID technology to mobile phones. The company plans to turn the iPhone into an electronic wallet. Some experts believe that based on RFID technology, high security, paperless payment of the iPhone is bound to open the near field communication technology market. This idea will open a new era of mobile payments. There are already many iPhone-based payment systems offered to manufacturers. In fact, one of the iPhone developers, the iFund Fund of the US KPCB Ventures, has injected another 100 million U.S. dollars in the development of these systems. It has been speculated that Apple may initiate the study and will begin with acquisitions of contactless technology companies or near-field communications technology companies.

Recently, the Queensland Government of Australia funded an RFID pilot project to use RFID technology to track the entire process from hunting kangaroos to entering processing plants. E-tags will improve traceability, reduce document work, and increase the efficiency of hunting operations; at the same time, it ensures the accuracy of information, the speed of information transfer from tags to databases, and the speed of data entry and use.

Indian hospitals use RFID technology to reduce data collection errors. Seven Hills Hospital in Mumbai uses an automated real-time data collection system from U.S. Wireless. The hospital uses wireless handheld devices and the patient's wrist band so that the hospital can use RFID technology to keep track of the patient's position and physical condition in the hospital. The system automates day-to-day data collection, effectively reducing data collection errors, and improving the storage of medical records, test results, and other information. This can greatly increase the accuracy of doctors' assessment of patients.

However, from the perspective of specific application promotion, Europe and the United States are still in a leading position. RFID applications in the United States have expanded from military applications to areas such as transportation, vehicle management, identification, and warehouse management. The RFID industry in Europe, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and other countries has also been widely used in transportation, identification, and material tracking.