RFID bicycle parking to be tested in Mitaka
It was last February when four Japanese companies (NEC Corporation, NEC System Integration & Construction, Ltd., Toppan Printing, and YEC Co., Ltd.) announced that they will develop an RFID-based bicycle parking system that tracks RFID'd bicycles. Bicycle owners' ID codes are stored in RFID tags that are automatically read by readers at entrance gates. Administrators of bicycle parking facilities can monitor bicycles using personal computers and, when bicycles are stolen, owners can be notified by email.
Last week, another group of three Japanese companies (NTT Communications, Toppan Printing, Bridgestone Cycle Co., Ltd) announced that they will test a similar RFID-based bicycle parking system next month in the Japanese city of Mitaka. In this experiment, PDAs are used to read RFID tags attached to bicycles.
via ITMedia, February 18, 2005, in Japanese.
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