RFID RF coil with unmanned retail store

In addition to various "shared" products, the hottest topic this year is unmanned stores. Since December 2016, after the opening of the first unmanned retail convenience store Amazon Go in Seattle, USA, a number of domestic companies have also launched a variety of unmanned retail stores to start trial operation, and it is menacing. For example, Binguo Box, F5 Future Store, Easy Go Convenience Store, and so on. For a while, unmanned retail stores blessed by various "black technologies" seem to be about to subvert and replace the old retail industry.

From drones and self-driving cars to unmanned factories with automated robots, more and more fields and industries are moving towards unmanned. Among the companies that promote unmanned store technology, the basic use of computer vision technology, sensor fusion, image analysis and deep learning technology allows customers to complete the purchase by themselves, as long as the selected goods are placed in the checkout monitoring area, the RIFD note on the product packaging will automatically enter the price and quantity information of the product, and then you can complete the checkout and other operations.

Radio Frequency Identification is referred to as RFID, that is, radio frequency identification technology plays the role of "battering ram" in unmanned stores. It uses radio signals to identify specific targets and read and write relevant data. The basic use of domestic unmanned store players in the settlement technology is RFID technology, as long as the RFID coil containing the chip is attached to the product, so that the payment table can sense.

According to the engineer of Golden Eagle Coils, the cost of an RFID RF coil chip is about 0.3~0.5 yuan, which is equivalent to an increase of 3-10 percentage points of material cost for convenience store goods in the range of several yuan to more than ten yuan, which also means that this cost eats up 3-10 percentage points of net profit. And the RFID RF coil chip on the product is also a pure manual work, Fuying Electronics engineer said, so that the cost of the chip of the RFID RF coil in the unmanned store every month and the cost of manual sticking are far less than the monthly salary of 1 person. In addition, the RFID radio frequency tag identification technology itself is easy to be limited by the material, and is easy to be damaged by natural wear and tear, and there are errors or inability to distinguish them.

In general, I think the technology of unmanned stores is very good, but it will be difficult to promote in China, and the integration of various technologies used in unmanned retail stores has not considered the actual cost of commercial use, so I am particularly optimistic about the market prospects of unmanned retail stores in China. However, I still think that the emergence of unmanned retail stores is of positive significance, just as the popularization of barcode technology has led to the improvement of supermarket sales productivity, the future RFID radio frequency tag will inevitably promote the system upgrade of the entire retail industry, so that the entire retail industry can continue to evolve.