In transportation and ticketing feild, the traditional payment is by a simple paper ticket that bears some of security features, like florescent ink, security line, latent image, barcode, infra-red ink. Through it can be prevent most of the fake tickets, however hard work load, low identification rate, and relevant unsafe features enforce institutions had to recruit abundant workforce to maintain normally operation, and now everything was changed as RFID technology deeply implanted into this sector.

At most of bus station or subway station, you will not no longer find any paper tickets any more, which replaced them was a simple recharge card or NFC mobile phones. And in recent years, the pace of changing speeds up dramatically.

Thanks to the RFID technology, you do need to wait in line for ticket checking, all just by a simple touch, and you are allowed to get through, and payment will automatically deducted by the RFID readers.

The benefits are not only in its convenience, but also its security. Each RFID card will have a unique ID, which is permanently stored in its ROM, and can not be rewritten. Meanwhile the communication between the RFID card and RFID readers is encrypted. Let’s take oyster card( London metro card) for example, this type of card is embedded with NXP Mifare Desfire chip, which the chip is integrated with the 3DES encryption technology, and still now there is zero case of password being cracked.

This RFID technology also have been applied into certain of big event, such as Olympics, World Expo…

In the future, we will see more and more case of this advanced RFID technology being applied in our normal life, and therefore change our life for ever. 

RFID technology, as one of the newly appeared technology in healthy care and medicine industry, has brought dramatical chances in patient indentification and asset management. It also brings safety and easy for doctors, check what benefits that  RFID can  bring to Healthy care and medicine industry?

Patient Safety  

 -  RFID wrist-banding allows for better patient safety at the point-of-care. With one scan one can retrieve: 

                   -         Medical history 
                   -         Prescribed medications
                   -         Meal / Medicine scheduling

-    Eliminate doctor and nurse negligence in regards to serving patients incorrect medications or foods

-    Allow for surgeons to have the nurses full attention in the operating room as opposed to being occupied by the administrative tasks of counting and tracking surgical equipment

Operating Instruments and Medical Equipment

-    Monitor and trace operating instruments and medical equipment during procedures to insure all materials are accounted for

-    Prevent the retention of surgical instruments, sponges, and towels inside patients being operated on

-    Omit or supplement the manual process of counting the number of surgical instruments, towels, and sponges both pre and post survey

Pharmacy / File / Lab Labeling

-    Prevent misidentifying specimens thus minimizing costly error

-    Add accuracy, safety, and efficiency to prescription processing by using bar code labels

-    Easily track test tubes, vials, blood bags and microscope slides to prevent errors and ensure accuracy

Access Control

-    Streamline card-based access control solutions with durable, highly secure credentials printed on-demand.

-    Monitor and control access to the most restricted parts of medical office including:

               -         Operating Rooms
               -         ER   
               -         Supply closets 
               -         Secure hospital wings

Supply Chain – Logistic

 -     Apply RFID tags at the source to ensure end-to-end traceability :

                -          Medical supplies 
                -          Prescription drugs
                -          Organ transplant transportation 

-      Sort through and store prescription drugs with greater speed and accuracy

-      Accelerate picking time and accuracy with RFID labels, which enable medical staff to locate materials and complete transfer operations faster