Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

New China facility to optimize RFID applications

Friday, May 14, 2010

To provide real-life conditions for evaluating and optimizing RFID applications NXP Semiconductors announced the opening of the RFID Applications and System Center in Tianjin, China.

Within the center, NXP has constructed a variety of environments for trialing different RFID applications, including electronic certificates, secure payments and energy monitoring.


The new facility accommodates to label customers, system integrators and end users with its customized antenna design, read/write device optimization, customized RFID test environments for fashion, medical, logistics, warehousing, industrial production and animal identification application systems.

The NXP RFID Application and System Center offers experimental and test equipment, capable of providing label design and label product performance analysis, to assist in the development of fully optimized solutions. [end] 

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