Ginza to be covered by RFID

In a very interesting trial being held in Japan, the famous shopping neighborhood of Ginza is being blanketed by 10,000 RFID tags to see if they help in giving location-related information to visitors to that area. The exercise is being carried out under the Tokyo Ubiquitous Network Project and participants will be handed out prototype readers developed especially for the project.

The system will hopefully provide information to shoppers visiting this busy area in at least four languages – Korean, Chinese, English, and Japanese. The trial is scheduled to begin on Jan 21 and run till March.

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