Use of RFID in the Olympic Games: ticket security and food safety tracking
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- Mar 27,2024
The Beijing Olympics brought new impetus
The Beijing Olympic Games is the first Olympic Games to fully use RFID technology for ticket security. Tickets for the games are loaded with the smallest RFID chips developed by China itself. The chip contains the ticket buyer's associated information, as long as the ticket machine brush, you can activate the background database, so as to call out the audience's personal information, which is convenient for the audience to check tickets, but also effectively prevent ticket counterfeiting.
Food safety tracking
Food safety tracking is another major use of RFID at the Games. The technology focuses on preventing four types of food emergencies: food-borne diseases, the abuse of banned substances in animal-derived foods, the illegal use of highly toxic and highly residual pesticides and food additives, and the maliciously contaminated food incidents of biological, chemical and radioactive nature. This Olympic Games has achieved the configuration of all food RFID electronic tags, the whole process of monitoring the planting, transportation, classification, acceptance and storage process, to prevent the above-mentioned four types of food emergencies.
The industry is expanding steadily
In terms of application industries, RFID is not only booming in the traditional transportation and logistics industry, but also has made application expansion in medical equipment tracking, food safety traceability, asset management and other fields. According to statistics, the most important applications at present are: logistics, access control, attendance, asset management. It is worth noting that RFID will be further expanded in the field of logistics and transportation. Due to the booming development of China's manufacturing industry, third-party logistics and transportation as supporting industries have also emerged.
