In recent years, because of the decrease in costs and increase in promotion activities by standard groups such as Auto-ID Center, RFID has been gathering greater interests from industries such as apparel, publication, appliances, and general household goods. Furthermore, RFID is considered to be more than just a tool for efficient logistics and commerce; it is one of the infrastructure technologies for ubiquitous computing society. DNP, Sun, and NTT are cooperatively studying potential applications of Auto-ID technologies to Japanese publication business. This paper summarizes the activities and the findings thus far. The issues in Japanese publication business, possible solutions using Auto-ID technologies, and an experimental prototype system are described.
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