Customer service enhancement using passive RFID

Author

Li, Xingguo ; Wang, Tong ; Chen, Junjie ; Chen, Junyan ; Qian, Zhenpeng ; Pollard, John K. ; Liu, Shaohua ; Yu, Junsheng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Commun., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

16-18 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

5

Lastpage

9

Abstract

A customer service system is described that augments the shopping experience of consumers. The system uses customer information contained in passive Radio Frequency Identification, RFID tags to alert sales-assistants to probable needs of the customer. These needs may be derived from previous consumption patterns and this enables personalized services to be provided. The system is transparent to customers who carry "Hospitality" cards. These are Ultra-High Frequency, UHF passive RFID tags that may be read accurately at a distance up to 2.2 m by an example remote RFID reader. This reader is connected to a database and Bluetooth-enabled short-range radios that communicate with receivers held by sales-persons A market research exercise has been conducted in order to investigate customer requirements and to gage the possible reaction to the system by shoppers in Beijing.

Keywords

Bluetooth; customer satisfaction; radiofrequency identification; service industries; Bluetooth; UHF passive RFID tag; customer information; customer service enhancement; distance 2.2 m; hospitality cards; passive radio frequency identification; Bluetooth; Consumer electronics; Customer service; Databases; Flowcharts; Frequency; Marketing and sales; Passive RFID tags; RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; Bluetooth; UHF RFID; customer service; passive RFID; sales database;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications Technology and Applications, 2009. ICCTA '09. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4816-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4817-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCOMTA.2009.5349248

Filename

5349248