RFID in Japan

Miyagi Prefecture's Fisheries Association is developing an RFID-based system to prevent unauthrized fishermen from "stealing" fish from the prefecture's sea area.

Awabi, expensive shell fish, is one of the first kinds of fish to be RFID'd. They plan to tag all legally caught Awabi. Their theft prevention scheme is fairly simple -- if you find "Miyagi Awabi" without an embedded RFID tag, it is either caught illegally or fraudulent fish that was caught somewhere else .

Yahoo News, August 25. (in Japanese)

Posted by konomi at August 26, 2004 05:25 AM | TrackBack