Electronic Label Business Revolution (I)

Do you believe? In Singapore, cars on the street can “talk” with the streets; in the northeastern city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, supermarket retailers are testing a new computer system through which customers purchase goods. In the meantime, you can let the product automatically “notify” the store of the sale of the product; and about 10 years later, the frozen food may be able to automatically “tell” the microwave oven how to cook itself...
Just as the revolutionary changes brought about by the Internet have brought together people from different corners of the world, the new technologies discussed in this article will also bring about another revolutionary change. Everything in the world will be linked through this technology, and Can "talk" to each other! And this huge change is happening quietly. At present, large companies such as Wal-Mart, Gillette and P&G have united to allow this technology to flourish.
Magical "electronic label"
According to "USA Today", different from the Internet, this time of technological change does not require more powerful computers and faster Internet connection speeds. On the contrary, it only requires a piece of stamp-sized plastic, worth a few cents or less. Each such plastic piece will have a small computer chip embedded in it, and some data will be stored on it. Through a tiny antenna on a plastic sheet, the chip can exchange information with the network system.
In the near future, when billions of such plastic labels are attached to different objects and they can communicate with each other, this technology will permeate every corner of business and our daily life, not just Confined to the network formed by today's personal computers, mobile phones, or e-mail. By then, you will find such a label on each item.
For example, the label on the supermarket item tells the store what to buy, which has passed the shelf life, and when the customer pays, the cashier's reader can read the above content in just one second; when you have a cold When you accidentally take the wrong medicine bottle and you are ready to swallow the pill, the label on the medicine bottle will promptly warn you to take the wrong medicine.
Reducing production costs is the key. In fact, the new “electronic label” is not a new thing that has only appeared in the last year or two. As early as during the Second World War, the military used this technique to separate the enemy from his own. Since the 1970s, the U.S. federal government has begun to affix such tags on nuclear materials in order to track their whereabouts. In the 1980s, warehouses of some commercial companies began to use it to determine the location of containers.
In the recent past, RFID is increasingly appearing in places that Americans are familiar with. For example, the Exxon Mobil Oil & Gas Company's Speedpass fuel card and the US wireless tollgate E-ZPass system all use RFID.
Singapore uses RFID to control traffic conditions. The system, called "Electronic Road Pricing" (ERP for short), can be charged according to different standards on different road sections and times. For example, from 8:30 am to 9:00 am, the main road charges $1.6, but it is free from 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm, which helps relieve traffic congestion. (To be continued)