Fujitsu has announced the development of a 64KB ultra-high frequency RFID tag with high capacity FRAM, featuring memory capacity sufficient to store large volumes of aircraft part and maintenance history data, while supporting a number of different radio frequencies to enable traceability worldwide.

The semiconductor manufacturer claims the tag’s 64KB FRAM memory is the world’s highest capacity to date. It adds the tag will enable highly efficient global aircraft maintenance operations by ensuring precise and rapid management of each aircraft part. The tag complies with the EPCglobal Class 1 Generation 2 standard supporting a variety of radio frequencies, which vary by region, and thus provides for global traceability.

Fujitsu says the new tags were developed in response to the aviation industry’s need to raise the quality and efficiency of aircraft maintenance by improving traceability of parts. It adds: “In line with this trend, a need has arisen for high-capacity RFID tags which can store not only part identification codes but also product and part maintenance history data.”

Sales of the tag are set to begin in the first quarter of fiscal year 2008 (April-June 2008).

Source: identityloop.com