Thursday, May 22, 2008

RFID Sushi


Two of my favorite things, technology and raw fish! I never really thought these two things would go together so well. At Pintokona, a Kaiten Sushi (conveyer belt sushi) restaurant in Roppongi all the plates are fitted with RFID chips. These chips serve two purposes. First, the chips are used to track how long the fish has remained on the conveyer belt. After 30 minutes the chefs are alerted and the fish is removed ensuring only fresh sushi as the plates pass by. The second function makes adding up the cost a simple wave of a magic wand. Normally at Kaiten sushi they count up the plates based on color and tally the total - sometimes may lead to overcharges or undercharges, but here all they have to do is pass a RFID scanner over the plates. The UHF tags embedded under the plate can take even hot dishwashing cycles. Now that's way i called eating my sushi in technological style! When is Malaysia gonna implement this?

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Pricing for RFID labels

https://www.digikey.my/product-detail/en/avery-dennison-rfid/700067/1543-1052-ND/5135122