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Hitachi to Sell “mu-Chip Hibiki” aka 5-yen tag

Hitachi announced on Septermber 29 that they will start shipping their new RFID tags called “mu-Chip Hibiki,” mu-Chip Hibiki’s price can be as low as 5-yen each, when ordered in volume.

First mu-Chip Hibiki tags will be shipped on November 30, 2006. They will be included in an evaluation kit that includes a reader, an antenna, software tools, and 500 mu-chip hibiki tags. The kit will cost 1,047,900 yen (about US$9000).

They are not perfectly EPC UHF Gen2 compliant at the moment but they will be by the end of next summer.

via nikkei

Related news: Supermarket chain ECO’s is planning to use these mu-chip hibiki tags to track 15,000 shopping carts — Their main objective being prevention of shopping cart thefts.

via nikkei

This entry was posted on October 1, 2006 at 9:05 am and is filed under hardware. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

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Hitachi to Sell “mu-Chip Hibiki” aka 5-yen tag

Hitachi announced on Septermber 29 that they will start shipping their new RFID tags called “mu-Chip Hibiki,” mu-Chip Hibiki’s price can be as low as 5-yen each, when ordered in volume.

First mu-Chip Hibiki tags will be shipped on November 30, 2006. They will be included in an evaluation kit that includes a reader, an antenna, software tools, and 500 mu-chip hibiki tags. The kit will cost 1,047,900 yen (about US$9000).

They are not perfectly EPC UHF Gen2 compliant at the moment but they will be by the end of next summer.

via nikkei

Related news: Supermarket chain ECO’s is planning to use these mu-chip hibiki tags to track 15,000 shopping carts — Their main objective being prevention of shopping cart thefts.

via nikkei

This entry was posted on October 1, 2006 at 9:05 am and is filed under hardware. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.