19-04-06 10:04
Age: 2 yrs

BY: HADA, HISAKAZU; KAWAKITA, YUUSUKE; UO, YOJIRO; NAKAMURA, OSAMU; MURAI, JUN

This paper is to report our publishing experience of a book with an Auto-ID compliant RFID tag in the Japanese market. Processes on the publishing of a book can be divided in to many phases. Let us assume the source tagging concept as one of the models for book and its distribution process. It first starts with numbering of a RFID, then the RFID tag is embedded in the physical production of a book, and finally sequence of testing to check if the RFID can be read properly even during the hard delivery processes would be performed. In addition to this, there are requirements on books from user side; libraries, marketing, and various other events including some applications at consumer’s home, hopefully for the lifetime of the book. Therefore, there have been active participants on the publishing industries for RFID-related testing in the past. Especially in Japan, partially because of Japan employing the resale price control system, the manufacturing and delivering process of books are different from ones in other countries. This difference should be studied carefully when designing the RFID related processes. The actual publishing includes a lot of processes and players which have been missed to be involved during the past demo-based experiences. In order to experience these new experiences on the manufacture of a book, the Auto-ID Center Japan researchers have involved with the design of a process for a publishing company to publish a book with an Auto-ID compliant RFID with EPC™ numbering system. The three issues are addressed in this paper: 1. Embedding the RFID, 2. Process for the resale price maintenance system, and 3. Information notice regarding the existence of the RFID in the book. Since the book was published about two weeks before the time of writing this paper, this paper just report the manufacturing process and the notices supplied by us. Very preliminary information regarding the feedback or post analysis are discussed.

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