digitization Chipless RFID technology: potential for logistics organization processes
Source: University of Paderborn
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Production costs of chipless printable radio tags are well under a penny a piece. But there are also risks.
Chipless RFID could become the replacement technology for today’s widespread optical barcode which, unlike radio tags, can only be read individually through direct line of sight.
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Researchers from the University of Paderborn have started a new research project on the opportunities and challenges of chipless RFID technology. According to a press release, this could become the replacement technology for the currently popular optical barcode. So-called RFID technology (“Radio-Frequency Identification”) is currently found, for example, in ID cards, vehicles and clothing. Information such as production data, names, supply chains and prices are stored on the chips.
“The radical innovation potential of chipless RFID technology has so far not been recognized, as it is usually only perceived as a further marginal development of an established technology. However, it makes a significant contribution to a new quality of the world’s digital inventory,” says Jutta Weber from the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Paderborn.
Risks to privacy and data protection
The world of goods could be fully numbered using the new identification codes. Any physical object could be individualised, made identifiable and traceable. It is then saved who bought the item when and where at what price. According to the researchers, this has potential for logistics and business organizational processes. However, they are aware that there are also privacy and data protection risks.
“The prospect of significantly cheaper and nationally distributed RFID tags suggests a new quality of surveillance and behavioral screening. In the project, we want to expand this discourse with a comprehensive inventory of the potential developments and consequences of printable RFIDs and create the basis for a broad social debate which will then enable participatory processes,” says Weber.
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From 15 April 2021
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