ThinFilm Printed Electronics NFC Smart Labels for Internet of Things

Thinfilm is a Norway-based company focused on expanding the traditional Internet of Things into a much broader Internet of Everything using the benefits of printed electronics. Thinfilm’s NFC Barcode and Smart Label product platforms use 13.56MHz Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to communicate from Thinfilm labels (placed on everyday things, at the item level rather than the box/palette/case level) to NFC capable devices, including smartphones and industrial readers. The 128-bit NFC Barcode is manufactured on Thinfilm’s printed-dopant polysilicon (PDPS) manufacturing platform, which enables high-performance transistors capable of handling wireless communication and NFC frequencies and data rates. The payload consists of a mix of fixed ID ROM bits, which cannot be electrically modified for security purposes, and dynamic bits that can the assigned to sensors. Thinfilm recently announced OpenSense technology, which transmits information about the state of a seal (factory sealed or previously opened) to a smartphone. This is being demonstrated in Barcelona in the form of a Johnnie Walker whisky Smart Bottle, which can communicate a unique identification number and dynamic sensing data to a smartphone. The OpenSense technology can lead to improved consumer engagement and can be used to verify authenticity of the underlying product while the seal is still intact. Next, Thinfilm’s temperature sensing Smart Labels integrate batteries, sensing circuitry, optional visual printed electrochromic displays, and NFC wireless transmission function into a single self-contained smart sensing system. These systems use NFC to tell a smartphone or other compatible device whether a food or pharmaceutical shipment stayed within specified temperature limits or whether it became too hot or too cold during transport. That simple data can help caretakers, retailers, and supply chain partners to make smart decisions by providing a real time indication of the temperature behavior (within limits vs. exceeded limits), and the big data pushed to the cloud with every interaction will help brand owners and others to make smarter business decisions based on trends captured by thousands or even millions of units active at any point in time. Learn more at www.thinfilm.no
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[@ZeroControl]

Stating it again , You do a very good job of reporting what you are showing , with the way you polity ask intriguing and informative questions towards it all .. I like your style..

[@LudicFallacies]

That's one smart lady!

[@kumarnaikbanavathu2055]

Wow such a cool demo on NFC technology..

[@ZenoDiac]

This is very cool and quite useful for more precise statistics on consumer products.

[@vedant6633]

It tests the continuity

[@incrediblymediocrevideos3053]

This looks very promising! Might be something to invest in.

[@harveywoodsllc]

Absolutely. Very good presentation.

[@Rainbow__cookie]

Soo nfc is the future
Cool i think

[@ZeroControl]

1.3 billion units per year : are they going to be recyclable ? : maybe you can kind of reuse it ? :Yeah , we don't want that filling the waste stream : Green battery company , very earth friendly . Nice interview done.. Great job..

[@royaltymarketingstudios]

Cool tech.

[@brightlee9437]

wow, now need cellphone scan to tell if a bottle has been opened?

[@BasiC7786]

Well, you can still do it the old way.. but you're only really sure. So there is not really ability taken from you, is it?

[@rosebarnes9625]

The objective is to detect tampering, not to tell an idiot who is too lazy to look themselves...

[@jwuethrich8385]

some kind of electronics to tell it was open? gee wonder why the label has that bit going up into the seal. could that possibly be a tearable flex cable loop aka wire? have they invented things that can switch electricity based on the presence or absence of electricity? would transistor be a good name for such an invention? soo many questions. I would have at least asked to demo the bottle contents. also idk that it really would be that hard to do with silicon...nfc chips arnt known to have a lot of gpio pins but you dont have to use an nfc chip to get an nfc tag. for instance the attiny85 can be configured to be a wirelessly powered/reader powered nfc tag by simply attaching a coil to its clock pins and flashing the right code

[@SianaGearz]

I did find it a bit ridiculous that they had to pretend that a wire rip sensor is a super secret technology.
BUT they're doing something interesting, genuinely bendable semiconductors. They are necessarily low-density and thus custom/semi-custom designs, you won't get a microcontroller core on there, or a lot of logic, so getting as little as an NFC tag and some logic out of it might be less trivial than it seems. Something like a temperature sensor diode, that requires some precision to it, manufacturing consistency, and that it's not overly susceptible to other environment influences such light and bend radius.

[@vladislavreutov3807]

Im still waiting for those printable one time use cellphones from Ultraviolet

[@pattilacey8450]

Can you refer me to a company that would make feminine wearable temperature skin sensors that I can submit my flower photos for part of the design? (for athletes, child-bearing or disabled women, etc)

[@stojanovicmiljan]

This Johny Walker thing wouldn't really need to be done with electronics at all.. they could use QR code for that..

[@charbax]

It needs to be reliable to know if the bottle has been opened with as contents could be expensive. So NFC signal needs to change depending on if it's been ever opened/tampered with..

[@stojanovicmiljan]

Just put a seal or some sticker that ripps. It cost almost nothing.

[@charbax]

The whole point of flexible electronics is that it also costs almost nothing. They can print these by the billions just as you'd print normal stickers that have no smart functionality in them. This bottle thing is just one use case, it might tell you on your smartphone app the time when it was opened and it might also tell you if bottle has been near too low or too high temperature or near too much humidity or anything else, there could be millions of other ideas for using flexible electronics, basically anything that you can think to do with a basic PCB you can now get it printed onto a plastic substrate and it be flexible.

[@stojanovicmiljan]

I don't know.. iI feel this internet of things technology is really forsing itself on us, without the real need in many cases, just for the sake of making general public accept it.. Smart and programmable internet of things could be as much as frightening as it is usefull.

[@pokemon4275]

Isn't this the same as having an RFID tag?

[@ww3586]

633 data base tell us the number

[@ZeroControl]

This will help with people stealing other peoples products ..

[@Rainbow__cookie]

Now this is an avangers level tread

[@Ruano0o]

Its called "beta" sample.

[@Borristhebeaver-xg5eb]

400th like.