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Application of RFID Technology in Unmanned New Retail

The Amazon Go unmanned store launched by Amazon in 2016, with its advanced shopping experience of 'grab and go, no queuing,' immediately attracted widespread industry attention upon release. For a time, unmanned stores became a new trend in the global retail industry.

Looking at the domestic market, the new retail momentum is in its ascendant, and the industry is particularly hungry for new technologies and applications. Coupled with the global trend of mobile payments in the domestic market, unmanned stores have sprung up like mushrooms.

Unmanned convenience stores and unattended technologies under new retail are being vigorously developed. They rely on Internet IT systems, artificial intelligence recognition, and automatic checkout technology to achieve unmanned/reduced-staff, intelligent/semi-intelligent sales scenarios, thereby enhancing the shopping experience and reducing management costs.

The shopping process of domestic unmanned convenience stores is relatively simple. First, customers need to scan a QR code (WeChat or Alipay) to enter the store. If they are not real-name authenticated, they cannot enter either. After selecting products, users must place them neatly on the checkout detection area. Then, a payment QR code is automatically displayed on the screen next to the detection counter. Users can scan the QR code with WeChat or Alipay to complete payment and then leave.

In terms of shopping experience, it is obviously not comparable to the 'grab and go' experience of AmazonGo, TakeGo, or Tao Coffee. The technology used is relatively simple but reliable, mainly employing RFID technology and facial recognition. Each product in the store is affixed with an RFID tag, avoiding the complex image recognition process required by AmazonGo and TakeGo. Built-in omnidirectional video surveillance effectively deters cheating behavior (such as damaging products, tearing off RFID tags, etc.). Of course, once cheating occurs, the system automatically alerts and relevant personnel rush to the scene in time. However, there are also drawbacks: for example, if a customer cheats, they have enough time to leave before the staff arrives, which is why most unattended vending machines are currently placed in closed high-end residential communities.


RFID技术在无人新零售中的应用


Unattended vending machines can achieve 'open the door and take, grab and go.' Each shelf layer uses an RFID antenna instead, and each product is affixed with an RFID electronic tag for automatic reading. Users download the APP, register with real name, link Alipay's Sesame Credit, scan the QR code on the vending machine to automatically unlock, take the desired products, close the cabinet door, and the backend automatically settles and deducts payment. Using the high-frequency RFID solution provided by FineJoin, stable and fast reading is achieved with evenly distributed antenna reading range.

Shanghai FineJoin Smart Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 2006, is one of the enterprises specializing in RFID and IoT technology research. The company has a registered capital of 20.02 million RMB and owns a research and development base of over 1,500 square meters and a production base of over 2,000 square meters in the Shanghai National 863 Software Incubator (Shanghai) base. It focuses on the research, development, production, and sales of RFID automatic identification, automatic data collection, and IoT software and hardware. The company's products include various RFID readers, RFID handheld terminals, barcode wireless handheld terminals, Android handheld PDAs, UHF handheld terminals, mobile POS, and various RFID electronic tags and IC cards, which are widely used in manufacturing, logistics management, warehouse management, tracking and tracing, equipment inspection, transportation, agricultural monitoring, micropayment, enterprise and school one-card systems, membership management, and other application fields.


Selection of RFID application equipment for unmanned vending machines:

Option 1: HF Solution ISO15693

D1316 16-Channel HF Read/Write Device

HF Layer Antenna (customizable)

HT401 HF Adhesive Label

Option 2: UHF Solution (ISO18000-6C)

D2384C 12-Channel UHF Read/Write Device

UT201 UHF Adhesive Label

UHF Layer Antenna (customizable)

　　

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