Dr Henry Chan, Associate Professor of the Department of Computing, and his team has developed an Air Cargo Processing System using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to help enhance Hong Kong’s competitiveness in the air freight forwarding industry.

The system has three distinguishing features. First, the system is equipped with a Flexible RFID Encoder and Decoder (FRED) so that essential air cargo data can be written onto RFID tags for identification and processing purposes. FRED has won a Silver Medal in the 38th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. Secondly, the system comes with an integrated RFID gateway with movement detection capability for both air cargo check-in and check-out operations. Thirdly, the system has a tag rewriting mechanism for flexible updating of RFID data. Details>>