How to improve RFID laundry management

RFID laundry management provides the perfect solution for hotels, hospitals, bathhouses and professional laundry companies that need to handle thousands of pieces of work clothes and fabrics every year - including handover, washing, ironing, finishing and storage. Through RFID laundry management systems, these facilities can effectively track and manage every piece of fabric, monitoring the complete washing process, counting wash cycles, checking real-time inventory status, and maintaining proper categorization of all linens.

Background

The textile management challenges facing hotels, hospitals, bathhouses and professional laundry companies - who must process thousands of work garments and linens annually - are perfectly addressed by modern RFID laundry management solutions. These systems transform how facilities track the entire lifecycle of each fabric item, from handover through washing, ironing, finishing and storage, while automatically recording wash counts, inventory status and categorization - solving what was previously a massive operational challenge.

• The paper-based handover of washing tasks is complicated and difficult to inquire.
• Because of the fear of cross-contamination, it is impossible to count the number of fabrics to be washed, and the mismatch between the number of washed fabrics and the tasks is likely to cause commercial disputes.
• Each step of the washing process cannot be accurately monitored and the fabrics are not processed accurately.Accurate categorization of washed fabrics saves storage space.
• It is impossible to accurately arrange the minimum safety stock of each piece of fabric.

The introduction of RFID technology will make the user's washing management become more transparent and improve the work efficiency, solving the management problems that could not be realized by other technologies in the past, such as: large quantities of fabrics to be washed statistics, handover.

System Architecture

System architecture: cloud database, computer system, mobile devices and APP, data access interface Webservice, warehouse management

1: Cloud database platform:

Hotel, laundry data sharing, hotel, washing company public data platform to store data from the hotel collection, delivery and washing company data, data put on the cloud service.

Database rules: Each laundry company builds a database: FkWash + the first letter of the name of the laundry company + code, so as to distinguish the data generated by different laundry companies. Under the washing company to establish each specific hotel unit, the washing company can manage to view the washing data of all the hotels under it, the hotel unit can only view their own washing data.

2: Mobile APP.

The APP in mobile devices is used for collecting and delivering points.

3: Data access interface

Since the mobile Android system does not directly access the background database, the data exchange between the mobile device APP and the cloud is realized through WebService, and the data upload and download is realized through middleware. This WebService is placed on the cloud service, and the APP accesses the data by accessing the cloud service-"WebService->Access data.

4: Computer system

The computer system is divided into two templates, one template for the washing company template, one template for the hotel template. All the basic data, the establishment and management of the hotel under the washing company, the label registration, the allocation of labels corresponding to various washing products, and the statistical reports of various data are carried out on the computer side. In order to reduce the middleware pressure, the computer can directly access the cloud database.

5: Outgoing management

When the washing company will collect a variety of fabrics, clothing washing is completed, in preparation for delivery to the hotel before the washing company needs to carry out factory scanning verification, the scanning channel placed in the touch screen industrial computer, printer, UHF reader and a number of antennas, in order to ensure that the label can be ready to be read to. Read the various types of grass and collect the various types of grass for comparison, if the number of mismatches will be prompted. After checking, the small ticket is printed.

UHF washing electronic label

• Product material: high-temperature resistant washing cloth
• With global unique ID identification, 860 ~ 960MHZ
• wash-resistant, High Temperature up to 200 ℃ (5 minutes), 100000 times cycle read and write test
• Can be recycled in the washing environment 200 times
• Can realize the simultaneous reading of multiple tags
• Product size: 18 × 87 × 0.7mm/20 × 60 × 0.7mm
• Where the chip position 2.0mm

Textile implanted RFID washing tags

Tag soft and thin, can be through a small cloth bag or directly sewn in the textiles to be managed, sewing location to choose easy to find the place, the tag can be used for rapid heat sealing method, to solve the problem of textile processing has been used sewing, fast and convenient.

Data Entry - Label Issuer

• EPCglobal UHF Class 1 Gen 2 / ISO 18000-6C RFID Antenna
• Compact UHF antenna for desktop and scanned textiles
• Highest accuracy for individual or stacked item scanning
• Easy installation (countertop or tabletop)

Textile Counting - RFID Handhelds

• Combined with cell phone APP application, can be configured according to the needs of the handheld operation for door-to-door.
• The handheld device is equipped with rechargeable batteries, which can be connected to the communication cable for self-charging.
• According to the user's smart phone, portable device, computer, etc. using USB or Bluetooth to carry on the wireless transmission.

Fabric Count - Clothes Passage

As each piece of fabric passes through each specific section, a reader/writer device reads and writes the information quickly and in bulk, and uploads the data to the cloud server.

Channel reader features:

• High-performance RFID reading system batch scanning of fabrics
• Modular structure can be easily incorporated into existing laundry infrastructure.
• Highest scanning accuracy for carts containing hundreds of items
• Fully shielded, no risk of stray reads