New Fujitsu RFID Can Handle The Heat

There’s a new RFID application, driven by an advance in the technology. While RFID tags are already appearing in school uniforms, they are now finding their way into the uniforms of medical supply and semicondunctor manufacturers. A barrier to entering these fields was that their uniforms call for being sterilized regularly with high temperatures. Now, Fujitsu has created a flexible, UHF-band RFID tag that can withstand temperatures of up to 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

These 1 gram, flexible tags can help track and update the status of batches of up to 100 uniforms, scanable simultaneously. They withstand much more than the 212 degrees Fahrenheit that such uniforms undergo for sterilization.