China Post Selects Symbol For Express Mail Bag Tracking and Monitoring28 June 2006
Symbol Technologies, Inc., The Enterprise Mobility Company(TM), and its Premier Solutions Partner, Concord Unity International Limited, have been selected by China Post to supply RFID technology to track express mail bags within the postal district of Shanghai (Shanghai Post). RFID technology has been successfully deployed in the Shanghai Post Express Mail Service (EMS) operations, and is part of an on-going national pilot project co-sponsored by China's Ministry of Science and Technology to validate the benefits of RFID within China Post's operations.
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Symbol's RFID technology enabled Shanghai Post to automatically track the status of mail bags en route from individual post offices to various collection and sortation centers within Shanghai. The current process of tracking the mail bags involves bar coded tags, which while reliable, does require some manual intervention.
"The primary goal of this pilot was to validate the use of RFID in terms of productivity gains leading to faster delivery services to our customers," said Mr. Liangan Chen, vice president of Shanghai Post. "During this project we successfully proved that we can greatly improve our postal bag processing productivity over the current barcode system with nearly 100% accuracy."
China Post has verified that RFID technology can reduce the amount of time it takes to process the mail bags, because the bags can be automatically tracked as they move through various points in their processing cycle.
"This will have significant operational improvements and cost savings for China Post when the RFID solution is implemented across all the provinces in China," continued Chen. "Given the increased demand for Express Mail Service we are looking to deploy technologies that can improve productivity and help us meet our customer demands in the most efficient manner."
China Post has deployed Symbol's ruggedized and reusable RFID tags, XR400 RFID fixed readers, high-performance area antennas, and MC9000 mobile computers. Symbol's XR400 RFID reader automates high-performance RFID tag reading and writing and is certified by EPCglobal(TM) for full Gen 2 dense- reader mode support, and provides China Post with accurate read rates in environments where multiple readers have the potential to create interference with one another.
"As a leading provider of enterprise mobility solutions, Symbol is excited to build on our experience with China Post and bring measurable RFID solutions to the postal industry," said Anthony Bartolo, vice president and general manager of Symbol's Wireless Infrastructure and RFID Divisions.
The success of this project was due to close collaboration between Shanghai Post's operations team, Concord Unity and Symbol Technologies. Through joint cooperation, all parties were able to design and deliver a solution that met all of China Post's requirements. "Both Symbol and Concord Unity are now looking forward to bringing the benefits of RFID technology to other areas of China Post's operations," said Mr. Jianfei Gao, CEO of Concord Unity.
About Symbol Technologies
Symbol Technologies, Inc., The Enterprise Mobility Company(TM), is a recognized worldwide leader in enterprise mobility, delivering products and solutions that capture, move and manage information in real time to and from the point of business activity. Symbol enterprise mobility solutions integrate advanced data capture products, radio frequency identification technology, mobile computing platforms, wireless infrastructure, mobility software and world-class services programs. Symbol enterprise mobility products and solutions are proven to increase workforce productivity, reduce operating costs, drive operational efficiencies and realize competitive advantages for the world's leading companies. More information is available at http://www.symbol.com.
About Concord Unity International Limited:
Beijing-based Concord Unity International Limited was founded in 1998. Since its inception, the company has been devoted to providing industry users in China with comprehensive solutions designed for improving efficiency. The company is now one of the largest RFID solution providers, especially, in the RFID application field in China. Concord Unity is also the major partner of such RFID vendors as SYMBOL and ZEBRA, in China. The company has successfully implemented the RFID project of China Post. More information is available at http://www.concordunity.com.
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