1、 Project background:

With the application of RFID technology more and more widely, more and more applications in life, the combination of UAV and RFID technology will greatly improve the intelligent degree of UAV. In addition to transporting cargo, UAVs play a role in many applications, enabling them to read data in flight.

The study found that UAVs using RFID card readers can read tags attached to steel drills or public pipelines with 95% to 100% accuracy. Oil fields usually store thousands of pipe fittings (steel pipes used in drilling operations) in different parts of the oil field, which makes inventory management a time-consuming task. Using RFID technology, when the RFID reader is within the scope of the items marked by the electronic tag, it can read.

But in the large storage space, it is not practical to deploy the fixed card reader, and it is very time-consuming to use the handheld card reader regularly. UAVs mounted on UHF readers can usually read passive UHF RFID tags from a distance of about 12 feet by installing RFID tags on dozens of covers or pipe insulators. This solution not only solves the mistakes easily caused by manual management, but also greatly improves the work efficiency. However, in large storage areas, customers need to arrange for a special person to "look after" the UAV in order to replace the battery in time.

By combining RFID technology with UAV, the information contained in RFID tag can be changed more widely, easier and cheaper than barcode.

The UAV equipped with RFID card reader can take the place of people to check the inventory and finish the work faster with less trouble. UAV can easily reach a high box that people need a ladder or elevator to enter. Through programming, UAV can independently navigate in space. Compared with large-scale repetitive tasks, UAV has higher accuracy and efficiency.

The perfect combination of RFID technology and UAV realizes the information control of inventory and the coordination of supply chain. In many ways, RFID UAV improves the work efficiency of the staff, greatly reduces the labor cost, optimizes the inventory level, tracks the assets and other control links. Refrigerator UAV can replace part of the manpower to complete the inventory work of the warehouse, especially when the goods are placed on the high shelf, it will be more convenient and fast to use UAV to inventory the goods. In some bad links, it will be safer to use UAV to complete the work in high temperature or dangerous space.