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Hong Kong Center Aims to Put China at the Forefront of RFID Growth
The LSCM has also allocated HK$9 million (US$1.16 million) to the Integrated Shenzhen-Hong Kong Food Safety and Supply Chain Management Public Information Platform project. The platform employs RFID technology to track food throughout the supply chain from Shenzhen in Mainland China to Hong Kong, and provides information related to food safety, such as pesticide test results, the food's source and logistics.
The project began in May 2008, and is slated to continue for another two years. Vegetables are currently being tracked using UHF EPC Gen 2 tags at the case level, in order to collect information from the farm through to processing and packaging centers, as well as distribution, transportation and inspection. A platform with applications for vegetable produce traceability and food safety alerts is now ready for demonstration. The smooth tracking and tracing of vegetables through the supply chain has already been successfully demonstrated, Tan says, with more applications to be developed in the future related to alerts, recall and supply chain intelligence. The LSCM also expects to sponsor a project in which pigs are tracked via LF RFID tags attached to the animals' ears. The trial is due to begin in August 2009, then continue for two years.
The application platform will enable farmers, distributors, retailers and other stakeholders to access information to improve operations, while also facilitating the tracing and tracking of food and the issuing of recall alerts. According to Tan, the platform will provide benefits across the country, including to government agencies (by improving the inspections process), businesses (by improving operational efficiency) and consumers (by improving food safety).
"Distributors, hotels, supermarkets and restaurants will also be direct or indirect beneficiaries of this project," Tan states. "The platform can also be extended to other areas for total supply chain visibility."
The commercial benefits of the LSCM center are already being seen, Tan says, thanks to two projects that have already been completed: RFID Enablement Middleware for Enterprise Applications, or RAE (see Hong Kong Begins RFID Middleware Project), and Establishing an EPC Network Infrastructure to Enable End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility (see EPCglobal Hong Kong Wraps Two-Year, Multi-Company RFID Project). Both projects, he says, resulted in the development of commercial products.
The project began in May 2008, and is slated to continue for another two years. Vegetables are currently being tracked using UHF EPC Gen 2 tags at the case level, in order to collect information from the farm through to processing and packaging centers, as well as distribution, transportation and inspection. A platform with applications for vegetable produce traceability and food safety alerts is now ready for demonstration. The smooth tracking and tracing of vegetables through the supply chain has already been successfully demonstrated, Tan says, with more applications to be developed in the future related to alerts, recall and supply chain intelligence. The LSCM also expects to sponsor a project in which pigs are tracked via LF RFID tags attached to the animals' ears. The trial is due to begin in August 2009, then continue for two years.
The application platform will enable farmers, distributors, retailers and other stakeholders to access information to improve operations, while also facilitating the tracing and tracking of food and the issuing of recall alerts. According to Tan, the platform will provide benefits across the country, including to government agencies (by improving the inspections process), businesses (by improving operational efficiency) and consumers (by improving food safety).
"Distributors, hotels, supermarkets and restaurants will also be direct or indirect beneficiaries of this project," Tan states. "The platform can also be extended to other areas for total supply chain visibility."
The commercial benefits of the LSCM center are already being seen, Tan says, thanks to two projects that have already been completed: RFID Enablement Middleware for Enterprise Applications, or RAE (see Hong Kong Begins RFID Middleware Project), and Establishing an EPC Network Infrastructure to Enable End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility (see EPCglobal Hong Kong Wraps Two-Year, Multi-Company RFID Project). Both projects, he says, resulted in the development of commercial products.
