Intel R1000: RFID UHF storm eye?

【 RFID radio frequency Express 2007 April 13 rising 】 in March this year, is the most important news is that Intel developed UHF frequency bands highly integrated R1000 chip products.

With the debut of a high-profile R1000 product, wrapping his side's low-cost, multifunction and provincial energy consumption, aura has also sparked domestic and foreign trade experts and industry enterprises of the strong interest and buzz. RFID radio news reporter respectively within the industry, whether on Intel R1000 throws a drastic change in UHF market surveys and interviews.

Technology cost much advantage to create new business opportunities

It is understood that there are many technology Intel R1000 advantages, such as: single-chip products manufacturing cost less than $ 40, the volume of only 8x8mm, power consumption is only about 1.5W, feature highly integrated more comprehensive.

Intel has released a press release that the passive UHF RFID R1000 reader and 90 per cent of discrete components (RFID radio frequency express note: include receiving, transmission, baseband, modulation and demodulation functionality) integrated into a chip, design flexibility and further enhance the performance, lower energy consumption, even through the USB connection to your laptop 2.5W to obtain power; at the same time, support from a distance of handheld readers to distant access control readers, a wide range of applications.

In practice, UHF RFID reader has a broad development space, including supply chain management, asset tracking, access control systems, etc.

Although at present, RFID UHF technology is more mature, there are a number of standards, labels, price has decreased; however, the RFID UHF readers have become larger and more complex and more expensive trend, price from a few hundred dollars to $ 2000, consumes more energy, manufacturing components up to several hundred. And highly integrated R1000 seems to be able to resolve this issue, reduce the complexity of the chip design and production costs, enables manufacturers to produce smaller, cheaper and more innovative reader, thereby opening up new application areas of RFID.

User technical threshold lowered to promote reading and writing equipment manufacturers developing

Intel R1000 and several development tools package for sales to improve reader OEM supply of products to market faster, while also enabling end users of reader use, supply, remote management easier.

These have included Firmware. The tool supports the EPCglobal Gen 2 and ISO 18000-6C standard all models and data rate, including built-in support for dense reader mode DRM and carrier sense LBT, compliance with United States Communications Commission (FCC) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

In the development of the Intel Intel R1000 and end users, and enterprise software companies cooperate closely in the development of a set of software that can be used for device detection, management and supply, making enterprises from readers to data center can be better integration and data management.

Through cooperation, Intel, on the basis of the R1000, launched a based software solutions and software design kits (SDK), which with the leading software provider of high level application software as well as new standards compatible. At the same time, the SDK will also allow users to use common programming techniques to program on the reader, rather than having to hard to understand and use the microcontroller code.

At present, ultra-high frequency field technical difficulty high, industry experts believe that if you scale to achieve highly integrated reader chip manufacturing, you can significantly reduce technical barriers, and promote the emergence of the manufacturer of the reader; such as increasing ISO 18000-6B standards support, R1000 will further promote the UHF read/write device to miniaturization (RFID radio frequency express note: handheld, portable) direction.

UHF industry chain in rhythm with the competition and cooperation

As R1000 chips, Alien, Thing Magic and Samsung Techwin, 12 RFID reader manufacturers are also planned for the next few months, the manufacture and sale of used R1000 chip UHF RFID reader product.

If ThingMagic plans to complete the beginning of may – the reader module will use the R1000 Mercury5e and designed to be embedded handheld (PDA) or print — in the form of the encoder with Mercury4e, Mercury5e volume significantly reduced energy consumption is further reduced. There is also the Deister Germany developed two RFID reader module UDK2 and UDK20. In addition, some manufacturers also plans to use the R1000 production of micro-module, using this module, laptops or personal digital assistant to a RFID reader.

At the same time, competitive product R1000 have bright, including representatives from the United States Starport system and WJ communications company research and development of integrated chips also came to UHF "racetrack".

Of these, the company launched the Starport system SP7001 chip for UHF Gen 2 readers, advantage is small size, you can embed phone application for consumers; the disadvantage is that does not support dense reader module and cannot be used in supply chain management.

Research experts and industry enterprises the benevolent see benevolence and Moses

Research institutions:

1.VDCRFID Research Director Drew Nathanson —

UHF reader market is still relatively small, in 2006 only 5 million units of UHF RFID reader.

VDC's view, this number may be increased this year to 70 million units. RFID industry may in 2009 or 2010 began to take off, we think the R1000 chip might be solved the current RFID market in one of the most popular questions./P>

At present, the volume of UHF RFID readers generally larger, equivalent to one tablet of volume or as a single entity with the telephone, the cost of up to 2000 dollars more — mainly due to the production of materials in more than $ 200 worth of transceiver modules, the modules contain 100 multiple discrete components.

If a large number of chips, with R1000 reader price may be as low as $ 500 and a like PCMCIA card that interfaces.

2.ABI Research RFID and contactless technology researcher Mike Liard —

Obviously, R1000 is RFID market another innovation, hope this innovation can bring greater RFID technology, helps enterprises to establish and regulate the application deployment.

3.ABI Research Analyst Jonathan Collins —

Evolution is taking place, but it is not clear whether it will lead to high frequency and high frequency changes occurring substance.

Intel's R1000 of major importance: most of the people concerned about the price tag, the reader's price has been forgotten, but it is precisely this part of the neglected system cost in fact cannot be ignored.

Intel company representative:

4.

Intel RFID working group business CEO Kerry Krause –

UHF has a wide range of industry applications, UHF or conveyor belt with quick to mount 70 pieces of cargo, in collaboration with large trays on a per-hour 5-8 miles in a truck to move ... ....

Use the R1000 chips will eventually make the reader cost reduced to half of the current $ 1000 – however, this requires to achieve economies of scale.

5.

Intel General Manager RFID operations — Michael J. Reed

The successful development of R1000 chip is UHF RFID area technical innovation as an important step.

It allows the company to obtain lower-cost, lower power consumption, feature more comprehensive RFID reader to mining brings infinite business opportunities.

6.Intel (China) co., Ltd., Asia Pacific for Huang, senior marketing manager — a week

For R1000 in China market entry, sales, and other matters, because of the timing problems didn't accept RFID radio news interview, did not reveal the details.

Chinese reader manufacturers sound:

7. the General Manager of Jiangsu raifu intelligent technology co., Ltd — — Cao honghai

Intel R1000 chips do not cause great changes in the Chinese market, at least three years.

Because the problem now is out in the application of technology, this is what I have always stressed the point of view. We can say that I can keep the price down to no profit, but the market can go up or not, because there are so many applications need to address, which requires application environment and early financial, human input, the input of more time.

8. Shenzhen sense technology General Manager Feng Jian-Hua-

R1000 will significantly reduce UHF reader material costs and production costs, leading Chinese reader product design's "revolution".

Recently, because the UHF reader market size is not large enough for the product cost is mostly management and cost of sales, but as the market expands, material and production costs will appear, creating strong win, weak eliminated.

9. jiexun Electronics Co., Ltd. CEO Wu Xiu Jie-

New Intel chip, reader as low as US $ 500, but also not raised for the Chinese market, mass effect is only Intel joint industry can make the UHF reader dropped to us $ 200, which makes the domestic UHF market blowout effect.