Shenzhen ASCEND IoT Technology Co., Ltd. has announced the application of the Near-field communication (NFC) tech in tracking agricultural products recently, to ensure the safety and authenticity of agricultural products. The company has many years of experience in designing and producing RFID tags and equipment, and has also accumulated rich experience in asset, logistics, warehouse, laundry management and so on.
This tracking solution including 3 main parts: NFC tags, NFC reader and software to manage the data. The NFC tag is marking the products during the whole supply chain, the NFC readers working in 13.56 mhz band and ISO 14443A protocol, any reader support this protocol can compatible with the NFC tags, including the NFC enabled smartphones. The software can be APP running on the smartphones, so that people can track the products via a smartphone.
Any NFC-enabled smartphone can verify and get the traceability information during the entire life of the products, Mr. Chen - the CEO of Shenzhen ASCEND IoT Technology Co., Ltd said: "Once the products was unpacked, the reader and system will recognize that and make a record for it, the system has hold all of the information including the place of origin, cycle of growth and production date, and more."
"The company has designed and produced many kinds of NFC tags which will be tagged on the packing or products directly," said Lv, the senior technical engineer of Shenzhen ASCEND IoT Technology Co., Ltd. “For example, we pack a NFC chip in a foot ring for the chicken baby, the foot ring can not be removed until the chicken is on the dinner table to ensure the precises of the traceability information, people can scan the foot ring to get the information of the whole chicken life just by using a smartphones, and in just a second, it provides highly safety and traceability for the foods.”
We design different kinds of NFC tags to compatible with different products, there still many work to do to perfect the NFC traceability solutions.