RFID in Japan

Hitachi announced on January 20 that it has developed RFID-based technologies applicable to nuclear power plant construction [more]

The Nikkei article (in Japanese) also says:

• The company is also considering using RFID tags for maintenance work after the plant is built and in operation.
• There are more than 1 million things (equipment, pipes, valves, electronic devices) used for the construction of a nuclear power plant.
• They think that storing historical information of RFID-tagged objects will facilitate the maintenance work for a nuclear power plant.
• About using RFID for connecting cables, RFID data is checked up using the CAD data of the electronic circuits. This checking can be done by using either a PC or a PDA.

via Nikkei Tech-On (in Japanese) & RFID Gazette

Posted by konomi at January 21, 2006 01:15 PM | TrackBack