Israel invents new smart labels

This site compiles reports: In the next four months, Israeli Power Paper Technology Company will announce a plan to produce smart labels. The tag can support sensor monitoring of food and pharmaceuticals.

The tag will be named PowerID Plus and is expected to begin production in the first quarter of 2005. The design consists of an RFID chip, an antenna, a sensor, and a printed battery cell technology. The sensor will be able to detect temperature and humidity conditions. The company stated that it expects that some customers, especially retailers, will be interested in the trial of this label. According to the number of tags ordered by the order, the price of the tag will be between $0.8 and $2.

Power Paper also revealed that it is developing another more advanced smart tag that will be made entirely of printable carbon-based materials, from antennas to batteries to chips. The company is using BiStatix ​​technology authorized by Motorola to do this work. Power Paper expects to put the label on the market in 2006 and the price will be $0.05 or less depending on the order quantity.

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Power Paper's printed battery cell technology: Power Paper's patented technology uses a special ink-like material to create almost any shape, any size battery. With this technology, very thin disposable batteries can be produced and can be bent like paper. The fabricated battery does not require a housing and is therefore suitable for use as a power source in disposable products. For example, disposable medical devices, smart cards, and smart signs.

BiStatix ​​Technology: BiStatix ​​is ​​a low-cost RFID technology developed by Motorola. It provides a breakthrough solution that combines the low cost of barcodes and automatic data collection. This technology can replace bar codes and traditional RFID for postal mail tracking detection, airline baggage tracking detection, and commercial product management. BiStatix ​​took advantage of Motorola’s patented dual technology data reception, allowing the simultaneous use of traditional bar code systems, new BiStatix ​​enhanced bar code labels, and single BiStatix ​​tags. In addition, BiStatix ​​can be easily applied to current bar code devices.

BiStatix's antenna section uses not a metal but a special type of ink. This ink can be used to print on almost any surface. The size of the silicon chip is about the size of a grain of salt and can stick to BiStatix's printed antenna. According to Motorola's claim, this breakthrough makes the cost of the label only a few pence. This cost is much lower than the PIT tagging technology currently used for tagging sea turtles, and it is much more powerful than the cable tagging technology in providing information.