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Alibaba Taobao Unmanned Convenience Store Coming!

2017-07-10

Never had thought about that the unmanned stores would come to us quickly, until now, Alibaba, No.1 E-commerce company in the world, had built his unmanned stores recently. And Jack Ma said that they would built more than 100 thousands of these type of stores in future 5 years.

RFID Retail

Let's take a look at how this amazing store work:

1. People scan the 2D code with their smartphone and enter the store.

RFID Unmanned Retail

2. Clients choose their items freely.

RFID Unmanned Retail

3. Walk out of the store, and payment completed automatically!

RFID Unmanned Retail

The key for unmanned store is automatic items identification system and personnel identification system. For items identification, UHF RFID is a mature technology with high accuracy and low cost. Since every items with an RFID tags, the payment system with RFID reader could detect the items and help complete the payment.