According to Kurzweil, a tech­nique for print­ing radio fre­quen­cy iden­ti­fi­ca­tion (RFID) chips on paper has been devel­oped by Uni­ver­si­ty of Mont­pel­li­er sci­en­tists (France).

The technique uses a thermal evaporation process to deposit thin aluminium coil antennas on sheets of paper, which can later be used for packaging or printed material. The researchers claim this is a cheaper way to produce RFID tags, allowing the technology to replace both barcodes and QR codes.

RFID is the use of a wireless radio system to transfer data from a tag attached to an object, for the purposes of automatic identification and tracking. One of our client AdvanceMedicalTracking is also using this technology as a production management tool in the hospital environment.