Pachinko RFID Explained
In September, I wrote this rather obscure piece on Pachinko RFID.
It may be the time to talk more about it as I came across some additional information today -- it is the company called Rakkii Unyu (Lucky Transportation) that started attaching RFID tags to all Pachinko machines they transport. They spent 150 million Japanese yen (about US$1.4M) for tagging, software development, and buying server machines. And it seems that they think it was a good investment.
When Pachinko machines are installed in a Pachinko Hall, information about individual Pachinko machines must be reported to police along with the machines' IDs. Then, police come to the hall to check if the reported IDs match the actual machines'. If they don't match, the Pachinko Hall's business is suspended.
Lucky Transportation stores and transports second hand Pachinko machines,which required complex management of Pachinko machine IDs. This has been done by humans -- it was a error prone process and a small error caused a major consequence to their customers, namely suspension of their businesses.
Lucky Transportation's system uses Dell PowerEdge Server, Dell EMC Fibre Channel Strage, Oracle Database 10g, and KRD Corp's Recycle Tags.
Source: Nikkei RFID Technology, December 22, 2004, in Japanese
Oracle Japan News release, November 25, 2004 in Japanese