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Deutsche Post DHL (DPDHL) began using EPC UHF RFID technology to provide its customers (especially overseas envelopes and packet customers) with information on arriving or leaving the Frankfurt Sorting Center. This helps the customer determine when the package arrives at the destination. When the goods reach 16 destination countries, DP will use the in-facility RFID reader and antenna to read the data and update the data to the customer. A number of other postal operators have begun to install the system at the request of the International Postal Service (IPC), a 24-nation cooperation organization across Europe, Asia and North America.
DP is Europe's largest mail service operator. The company has an international mail, light goods delivery business, last year's revenue of 1 billion euros. All DP international courier service will pass the Frankfurt sorting center.
For the postal industry, RFID is not new. Like other IPC members, DP has installed UHF RFID readers at key facilities, making it easier to monitor the quality of international mail services. In addition, DP also installed in the international mail terminal UHF reader, process monitoring and improvement.
DP The international hub in Frankfurt is equipped with an RFID reader for the integrated antenna for reading the small tag ID number attached to the sorting system.
DP Dirk Pandikow said: "From this year on, we began to consider the technology on the hands of the commercial. We launched the Lndernachweis service. Each package has a two-dimensional code for tracking. Scan the two - dimensional code, the sender can know the e - mail sent and receive time, while the goods during the transport of things, the sender is not clear.
The transnational tracking of envelopes is more difficult than large cartons, and envelopes are usually smaller, so the two-dimensional code on the envelope is also harder to scan. Pandikow said that the current location of the two-dimensional code system does not have an international standard. As a result, postal operators typically use manual methods to receive international mail, sometimes re-affixing labels in the country of destination. DP said that the number of small pieces of growth rate is very fast, which also makes automatic tracking system becomes more and more important.
With this system, the shipper is required to attach a DP-supplied RFID tag to automatically track messages via the Frankfurt hub.
After the RFID tag is bound to a specific package, the sender can enter the unique ID number on the Lndernachweis website and send the information to the RFID chip. Then, the sender can visit the site to view the time for the small pieces to arrive or leave the Frankfurt hub.
At present, the system is providing business in 16 countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The reader and antenna are installed in the post office of each destination country. These tags will be read again when they are delivered to the customer. In this way, the German sender can view the latest state of the envelope.