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(2003), "Mitsubishi Materials Corporation selects Microchip Technology RFID Tagging IC for high-tech library system", Assembly Automation, Vol. 23 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/aa.2003.03323aaf.004
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
Mitsubishi Materials Corporation selects Microchip Technology RFID Tagging IC for high-tech library system
Mitsubishi Materials Corporation selects Microchip Technology RFID Tagging IC for high-tech library system
Keywords: Tagging, Microchips
MicroID® RFID technology provides security and inventory applications for library systems. Microchip Technology has announced that Mitsubishi Materials Corporation has selected Microchip's MCRF450 rewriteable microID® device for use in its new high-tech library system.
Mitsubishi's new system combines innovative inventory, check-in/checkout and security features. The system utilizes Microchip's MCRF450, 13.56 MHz tagging ICs, that enables a library to monitor the distribution of books, video and audio materials, track sign-out and due dates, log sign-out history and "next to read" requests of library patrons, and prevent theft of materials by identifying each item in the library's inventory with a nonremovable RFID tag.
Using technology co-developed with Checkpoint Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CKP) and Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Microchip's MCRF450 tagging device features a large 1 K bit memory and the fastest data rate, longest read/write range and lowest power consumption of any other 13.56 MHz item-level RFID device in the industry. They also feature one of the fastest and most accurate anti-collision algorithms available.
A new feature, available from the beginning of next month, is the MCRF450's ability to respond to virtually any shape of signaling waveform: square wave, trapezoid, or even cosine. This enables the user to extend read range while meeting FCC power limits.
"We chose Microchip's MCRF450 tagging ICs to power our BitTag® series because of its reliability and unmatched performance", said Kiwamu Goto, Assistant Marketing Manager for the RFID System Center at Mitsubishi Materials (E-mail: bittag@mmc.co.ip). "This inventory system enables libraries of any size to implement innovative technology that makes the daily operation of a library more manageable and efficient, but also allows inventory assessments to be conducted quite easily and on a regular basis."
Other applications for the MCRF450 include item-level tagging for warehouses, such as reading multiple objects inside a carton or pallet without opening or separating the items; combining security with inventory applications for auto-checkout at retail and video stores; airline baggage and parcel shipping; automatic ski-lift ticket validation to shorten lift lines; automatic counting and sorting at industrial laundries; work in progress (WIP) management in automobile factories; anti-counterfeiting; industrial barcode supplement or replacement; medical supply/device tracking; document management and numerous other applications. Its ability to store, rewrite, and lock blocks of data, make it the ideal item-level tag, which can remain attached and be updated throughout the lifetime of the item.
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