RFID in Japan

KDDI, Hitachi, Itochu, and Itochu Techno Science announced yersterday that they together will test a new information delivery service using RFID reader phones. Hotel Emil Kasai in Edogawa-ku, Tokyo is where they test the system. The hotel will install a special RFID-tagged map of nearby areas -- about 70 points of interest are marked with RFID tags. Users can scan the RFID tags embeeded in the spots they are interested in by using RFID reader phones to create a personal mobile "portal website" with relevant information. The companies call this service a mobile phone based "concierge service."

KDDI has developed prototype phones that integrates passive and active RFID readers in March. For this pilot test, mobile phones with integrated passive RFID readers (mu-chip readers) will be used.

The pilot test will last for a month at the hotel. The company may consider rolling out the service depending on the result of this pilot test .

via ITMedia, September 5, 2005, in Japanese

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