The cost per tag is way less than 6 cent when you buy in bulk. My company purchase tags from Alien Technology and pay a fraction of that price. In Europe the frequency is 868Mhz and you can read them from over 5-7 meters with the proper equipment. The major issue is metal or water in proximity to the tag or between the tag and reader. That is why they can't put the tags flat on the cans. The tags most likely just contain a I'd number of few bytes. The communication protocol is pretty advanced though because you need to be able to handle hundreds of tags in the same area so it implements collision handling where you can tell tags to sleep when you have read them. You can also reprogram them. Let me now if you want to know more.
Björn Nilsson sounds very promising, are there other limitations to this technology that prevents it from being adopted widely as a replacement to barcodes and/or backup to barcodes?
Joel Bright I don't have so much experience using it for that purpose, but as I remember, Walmart was planning to replace barcodes with rfid many years ago. Price used to be a big issue before, not sure if it still is, maybe for really low cost items. But barcode readers have evolved as well so I guess there isn't as big of an advantage using rfid and then the downsides are still there. You need to apply the tags, they stick out awkwardly, increase cost, read range can be challenging to control so you read tags far away or miss tags that are close. Etc.
> 5-7 meters with the proper equipment Years ago, when I was doing inventory for the store I worked at, I wished I could just RFID everything. A scan of the shelves would tally things up more accurately and would take a tenth of the time I did manually counting by hand.
I love his response to "it's not that hard". If I've learned anything from 18 yrs of software engineering, things often look simple until you try and then you realize how complex it is.
What is the law? I grew up in a family that owned a junkyard, my father owns an automotive repair shop. I learned very soon that the simplest path leads to the correct answer most of the time and everything else is a distraction. The problem usually is that when working on such a complex problem so many paths are available.
I love the way he conned his buddy to get a free beer. "Can I borrow your phone? Mine has a dead battery." "I kinda think it's beer o'clock, do you want a beer?" Alright, free beer!
Dude is properly Chinese now. Back when I was in primary school in Beijing, we'd always say things like "can I borrow a piece of paper" or "can I borrow your eraser"? The papers are never returned, obviously. And the erasers are returned after we use it for a bit, meaning it's not "returned in full"-- just like his buddy's phone wallet was returned with a little bit of money gone.
Keyword is UHF RFID. I used them in a project where the task was to do an inventory in a facility as fast as possible. Hand-held readers exits which puts out 1 to 3W of power and can read thousands of tags even as far as 5-7m away under 10 seconds. Basically we just entered the room, walked around for a minute and the inventory was done. "Traditional" RFID/NFC can only deal with one active tag.
Brafilus I'd assume that you can only do that in China. Outputting more than a few hundrete mW in Europe and the US in the 868 and 900 MHz Band is illegal ;-)
none of the tags shown where active tags. all of them were passive. most of rfid is passive tags anyways. and: you require a lot less power on UHF than you do for HF tags. HF Tags are working near field (magnetic component of the HF field) to transmit energy to the tag like a transformer. UHF tags are working in far field. HF systems by the way can work easily with 10-20 tags at the same time. Its all about anti-collision which works differently for UHF systems. There is really a lot of missconception around when it comes to buzzwords like RFID, NFC and all that sort of stuff...
Really interesting conversation, I understand how all of the technology that you are mentioning works. Like a key that if detected is registered in the system. The tag is only there to be identified not to perform calculations or respond. Most shops only need to know what items are stocked, how many of each are available and what items are being taken out of the store or coming in. Thus tags that are designed to be identified in bulk just make sense. Would only have to be on the lookout for people trying to destroy tags or cover them up in faraday cages. Passively monitoring everything in the store and having security on hand can be helpful in this situation. Makes so much sense I'm wondering what is stopping the technology from being adopted as a backup to the barcode system and eventually replacing it...
The tags need to be designed in such a was that they get destroyed or otherwise damages when the sticker is removed... Does not seem like it is though.
I worked with RFID in the Late 1990s. The supplier I worked with was bought by Hughes ID (HID). They used standard HP inkjet ink to print paper tags for a project that we did with the Postal service. The standard HP ink jet ink is conductive enough to make a good antenna.
I'm Chinese and I was wondering what's inside a cashier-less store like this, then I saw this video and everything explained. Keep it coming, really wanna see more!
I live in a 3-tier city in China and we have more than 2 cashier-less stores. I think there is another checker near the door to make sure its consumer has paid for his goods before the door opens.
Checked Chinese news, 兔兔到家 (the name of the cashierless shop), seems to be an indie/small group/startup operation that launched the shop from around 2017 but probably spent years in developing all the tech. Dont know how well its doing because its pretty much unknown on Chinese news except for in Yiwu.
I live in China and often travel to tier 1-2-3 cities and villages for my work. There are only a few such stores in China. The government does not like promoting anything that reduces employment. QED. What it does not mind doing however is allowing such companies to trial their products in Chinese cities (beta testing) so that they can then export them to developed western nations that wish to replace humans in stores (or don't have people for it). Australia, USA, Scandinavian remote regions... For example, Shenzhen, a hi tech city where you only see pure electric scooters on the pavements and roads, and where nearly all our street lights are solar powered LED, and 20% of the buses are electric, where most people make smaller payments using wechat bar codes (on their smart phones), there are just a handful of such stores. I havent even seen a single such store in Nanshan, even thoug there are tens of thousands of convenience stores and shops.
In a Spanish clothing shop, they use also rfid on every label price. but the coolest thing is, they have a device what can find the location of the tag. in other words, they can find thiefs even outside of the store and also its easier after shops closed to find all laying around clothes and hang these back to the belonging places.
Christian Schnitt what is the maximum distance you have been able to read one? I'm wanting to work on an experiment to see if I can make a very sensitive antenna to pick up lost pets RF chip. It would be awesome just to reach 200 feet
This is interesting. I’ve just found out that Uniqlo now are using rfid tags on every label. At first i dont know whats the function of these rfid tags that they put on the label. Wow. Do they really able to locate the location of the item eventho they are outside the shops? Thats crazy.
Same here in Finland, in my local grocery store they put those rfid stickers on some seemingly random, and usually low value products. I guess those are the most commonly stolen items.
Man, technology has come a long way. Who would have thought, say 50 years ago, that we would be able to have a cashier-less store and paper-thin, passively-powered tags that can be scanned by just being near the counter.
Honestly, all the videos that are on this channel make me interested in things I never would have cared about before. The way they’re presented is fantastic. I love the down to earth way you go about things and the way you are obviously excited about everything you come across. Keep it up 👍
Thank you for this episode. When I saw that store in Colin's Yiwu video, I was very curious about it, and hoped you would talk about it in a future episode.
I think there are probably cameras as well, but don't remember offhand. Petty theft like this doesn't seem to be as prominent here as a lot of other places I've been. Not to say it doesn't happen, but it happens a lot less as far as I can tell. So things can be more relaxed without it being a huge problem. For instance, I see bicycles and ebikes all the time that are just locked with a simple chain through the rear wheel...
maybe in the walls near the door they have another RFID reader that verifies that the data it reads match exactly with that of a recent purchase made...you know like guards outside malls do! just a guess
@@oldskoolhead0 gets locked in* i guess you can smash the door but you also scanned your phone and in china phones are tied to your "social security" card so they can find you pretty easily probably
That concept in its entirety is mad brilliant. If you could integrate RFID or NFC into the packaging, you could almost completely automate an American convenience store. You might have to have one or two employees for a 7 Eleven or Lawson scale store in order to maintain shelves authorize alcohol, tobacco, and gasoline sales, but it would make management and operation of them way easier. I could totally get behind this business model.
The RFID-tag does not transmit anything. You saw how it loaded down the transmitter on the frequency sweep he did on the miniVNA? RFID-tags communicate by modulating how much it's loading the transmitter. Say you have a small transmitter at 850 MHz and the chip gets near and loads down the transmitter. This can be detected in the power usage in the transmitter. The tag will modulate (morse code, on/off, just WAY more complicated) and the power usage figure is decoded and data comes out :)
You are describing an NFC (near field communication) chip read process. There the item needs to be placed very close, almost touching, the reader. This was an UHF RFID chip (completely different wavelength range), that can be read from meters away. It diffracts (reflects with alteration) back the signal it gets from the reader, and that's what the reader picks up. So it actually does send a response, not just cause a "disturbance in the Force" like in NFC.
Unnamed Review Guy China still has a lot of high technology but many Foreigners don't know that China is a big innovator. China's rise has been unstoppable, and that is the trade war America has waged against China. America is bound to lose this trade war.
Those are called "UHF RFID Tags". The tranceiver is capable of reading muptiple tags at once. That means that you could have placed those items on a cash register in the shop at once (like in a shopping bag) and it would read all of them at once without a problem.
Christian von Delius if you are buying development boards (arduino, espruino, etc) or LCD panels it is perfect for that. But then you start buying big RFID readers, genuine security cameras (when it arrives first thing to do is install Dahua firmware to it and change password) and stuff like connectors or terminal blocks it goes too far. Then you discover things like RuiDeng power supply modules (only place they sell them) that are worth their money. Then you come across a Andonstar ADSM302 with free DHL shipping and you have no choice to buy it.
@@felenov So is Alibaba & Taobao better than Aliexpress? I have noticed the price of electronics keep going up and up and up on Aliexpress, my guess is simply because they can, because people will pay it. Are the prices on Alibaba & Taobao more reasonable than Aliexpress these days?
@@skins4thewin Sellers love playing with the prices. They raise the price and discount it. Or the moment the sale starts, prices go through the roof. So be careful and watch the prices, then you will be good. Also asking the seller to give more information about the product sometimes gets you a lower price
@@felenov Hm, I have only seen prices get raised from what I have seen, but perhaps that is due to the types of products I look for, which is mainly electronics and video game related items. I suppose because Americans are willing to pay more for them they feel they can raise the prices accordingly. Shame to hear that about prices going up during sales, that's a shame. Either way, do you think that either Alibaba or Taobao has better value than a place like Aliexpress? Am just curious.
Fikri Rizaldi Kamil I don't know I tried ice-cream not the fruit by itself in China, it's not as bad as they make it look but I'm not a fan and can think of many delicious fruit.....it tastes bad...
Not really an apple fan myself, but I must say your character is so energetic that I love to watch every video of yours! Keep up the good work, it is highly informing and I already learned so much from you!
I remember reading an article several years ago that Walmart was actively researching options to attach tags to all retail products but they need the price of the tag technology to less than $0.01 per tag to meet their business demands. Also recently received a pair of Five Ten sneakers owned by ADIDAS company. When I was removing the cardboard paper tag from one of the shoes and noticed the paper splitting I discovered this same type of tag was sandwiched inside. So of course I rinsed off all the cardboard paper fivers from the sticky film the antenna and chip was attached to and wound up wit someone very closely to what you have. At fist I though it was a loss prevention tag but I now think its more an asset ID tag for contactless inventory and next gen POS purposes. Great video and god I bet that durian ice cream pop was interesting! LOL
well, they could sell 100 through hole transistor for a dollar and thats including shipping cost. shouldn't surprise anyone if they could make one of those RFID tag under 2cents each.
I'm so glad Scotty is doing these videos. If you look around TH-cam, most people are just making videos about the worst things they can find in China to complain about for the bandwagon views. When I visited China it was extremely friendly towards Westerners and my only complaint is about the cigarette concentration, but that is also going down.
Whats to stop someone paying for the cheapest item and ripping off the tags and stealing a heap of other items? Is it an honesty system or is there other types of security?
besides all the Skynet and other crazy stuff, manless shops make sense as long as the system is good enough to keep the lost on shoplifting less than hiring a cashier
It's not very hard for someone to stealthly sneak a tag off of the item you take and put it on another item on the shelves, and then keep that out of the camera's line of sight, they won't know you took a extra item, and can't prove it in theory since the tag is still in the shop, plus their system doesn't alert them of shoplifting of removed tags if said unpaid tag does not go anywhere near the door. Remember that all systems can't be fool proofed, unless you weld the tags to said items so it's not removable, OR hide it on said product so one would not know where to look to remove it..
So I just started working for a company called Triple Crown, im a technical recruiter and I have learned so much about what you do and enjoy this channel even more now than before. I just spent all day looking for an rfic design engineer with mmwave experience. You should do a video on that, mmwave tech.
Those stickers look like UHF RFID tags (UHF can have pretty huge read ranges). They come in an insane variety of antenna shapes and ICs (depending if you want read only, or user writable data, or even onboard sensors if you want active tags). The copper coil ones however (like tap cards) are probably LF or HF RFID. They aren't designed for longer range reads (because you only want to read at a close proximity).
any chance of exploring an e-reader/e-ink factory, like the screens made for kindle or kobo (lots on Alibaba, would be cool to see if company photos are real or fake as well)
In USA if there would have been put a similar one there it would not have been broken into or hacked into, the whole store would just have been plain stolen.
It is actually nice that Chinese society apparently has this level of integrity that this system will work. Sad note on American society that I agree with your comment.
Amazon Go primarily relies on computer vision (and scales). Amusingly enough, the company that makes these RFID chips (Impinj) is located next to Amazon's headquarters. I assume Amazon Go relies somewhat on crowdsourced verification of their computer vision analysis (via something like MTurk), so there's probably still some humans in the loop. The real question is whether computer vision (with human augmentation as needed) will end up being cheaper than putting a tag on each item. But with tags on everything, you can get more benefits: a fridge that knows expiration dates and potential product recalls of everything inside, automated recycling sorting, seamless returns based on the unique ID of the tag, etc.
awesomeferret actually Alibaba group, giant company just like Amazon in Asia. They have 20 outlets without cashier just like the only Amazon Go in Seattle. JD.ID X , first AI based supermarket in Asia outside China in Jakarta, Indonesia. I’m an Indonesian and surprisingly JD.ID X sells stuffs with the same price like other normal supermarket and even cheaper for special deals. You don’t even need to scan or put the groceries on the scanner just walk and confirm your face.
I don’t care what you make your videos on because they are all interesting. Thanks for making both entertaining and interesting videos about life and technology in china.
I love hate how your geeky enthusiasm forces me to watch your videos! I mean, I don't get to see these things here in Canada but heck, I can't stop watching what new tech you come across and the tribulations of understanding it.
Hell yes to more RFID. Maybe even get one implanted. I have two and they're great for hacking. One even works with the local hackerspace door access system.
BigCliveDotcom is doing this for years, actually :P. Up to the point that watching some of his cheap Chinese USB chargers he got sent to from viewers has made me incredibly cautious about seeing people using them and without any reluctance handling their metal-cased phone....
I've taken apart exact RFID stickers like that from cell phone accessories (likely from China) YEARS ago. Like 8-9 years ago at least. I don't remember if the chip was that small. I didn't analyse it as well as you did. The antenna was identical though. They also sell those antennas to stick on your phone to "boost reception". Cool tech. Thanks for the video
It's just conductive ink antenna. You can get conductive ink for your printer and even for 3D printers. "It's not that hard"...... 😜🤣🤣 I love your optimism. 😂😂😂 I'd like to see your antenna results. Or rather your bumbling and stumbling into a sort of working results 🤓🤣👍 Great video man. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, I was thinking the same. I think there was another QR code for you if you weren't buying anything. I may be wrong, but I was thinking about what if there was a power cut, and you'd be locked inside
They need somebody to keep an inventory of stock and stack shelves and to set prices for the items in the system also label prices on items and notify customers of offers as well as to keep the premises clean
+Strange Earth, the RFID stickers are made with printed Silver Chloride. There's a company based in San Rafael, California called Byte Foods that sets up mini refrigerators in offices and lunch rooms that sell food.
My guess is they use rfid because it's more thief proof than Barcode. Because with barcode you can scan cheap items but you actually bring out an expensive one. Or You can even go out without even paying anything.
Bar codes dont have the ability to send information back to the reader. As far as swapping RFID tags with a lower-priced product, there are ways to verify if something has been tampered with. Such as using a product's weight as verification. Many self-checkout systems (in the USA) use this method to catch would-be bar-code swappers. This is why after scanning an item, you usually have to place the item in the bagging area (which serves as a scale) so that the added weight can be checked against the known weight of each item. They may also use a camera to make sure the product visually matches the product reported by the RFID tag
Brandy Wasay no, the majority foreigners works in china as English teacher or reporters, don’t be salty just becuz others have better technology and living conditions than u do.
Is so funny Stuart saying "Oh, you should make your own antenna....." Like how you actually explain the process you are going through. Makes me think of the phrase. "Inquiring minds want to know...."
It is UHF tag. 1st, it mean you can’t read it with HF reader. 2nd, I assuming they chosed UHF to scan all items inside the store for both inventory and security. Seems they have two type reader inside that store. 1 is native UHF reader to scan the entire store. The other 1 you use to check out is a reader that limit the coverage so it only read everything on the reader surface. I’m working in rfid for 11 years
You should definitely "design" your own antenna. Start by "making" one. And then "design" your own. That would be a great series of episodes. Get Stew and co as guests when you hit a brick wall. I can already see your "designed" antenna as the Strange Parts logo ;)
It was fun to see how RFID tags really look. My local library (in Shenzhen China) has been using them for a few years now. I saw a similar unmanned store in Quanzhou (Fujian) last year. Fun fact - Very few Chinese people were using it! They were all using the manned convenience store located opposite to it instead. Not seen any such shops in Shenzhen, but there are two such cabinets below my building with small conveniences like small milk cartons and drinks - both work on a similar principle, but using wechat. I think the Chinese are making them and beta testing them in Chinese cities, so that they can export them to developed countries where people enjoy the idea of employing fewer people (low overheads, low prices). A bit like Luck in coffee's unmanned coffee stands.
So how does the door system work? If you scan the code to get in it has to know at the door that all the products you are removing are paid for right? So it will not open the door if you have not paid for products. Then there has to be some reading of the rfid at the door as well as at the till.
Guess we are all bound to have our phone as our wallet :) In Denmark it will probably be Mobile Pay app that wins. And lol that Durian ice cream...WTF, apparently the fruit is not allowed on public transport etc cause it stinks.
Vipps in Norway; the only place I still have to use a card to pay is in the local grocery store and Burger King who both signed up with a competitor that went out of business. Ideally I'll have an app on my watch soon so I don't have to bring my phone either.
I wonder if you could adjust the response from an antenna to encode data in the spectrum. like having multiple resonance points on a fractal antenna and those resonance points are some 4-8 bit combination code. you wouldnt need a chip like this right? it could be like QAM where the exact strength of the resonance also has some binning to it that encodes information. the scanner just sweeps these fractal antennas and the answer is the energy it gets reflected back (or lack thereof).
it doesnt have to sweep the entire spectrum like expensive analysis equipment either just the expected set points of the fractals that are manufactured (the 4-8 bit combination). the scanner could also be a fractal antenna that resonates at all the expected frequencies.
I run a half marathon a month back, and after that took the number tag (that had a timing chip in it) apart, that I had attached to my shirt during the run. Under a foam pad there I found a precisely similar looking chip-antenna thing as there is in those tags, but in like a 4in wide form and a bit thinner. In places where the split times were taken the route was narrowed to like 3-4m probably and there were some plate-like antennas placed on at least one side - cannot remember precisely but might´ve been on both sides also..
@@jackdavies5331 way way less when buying bulk more like 5-10, I work for a big retail store we pay 8c for 1 water bottle, of course we buy huge amounts so maybe that's it
Why do you ask if we would like to see when you try to make your own antenna? You know we do, all your videos are amazing! Always joy and lots of fun when a new Strange Parts video pops up! :)
More info on these types of tags: -cost is fractions of cents (typically 0,1c), so well adapted to convenience store items -the frequency they work at is typically 866, 916 or 920 MHz, close to GSM frequencies which allow for more efficient antenna within the available volume -typically, the chip is very simple and just sends an identification number back -they can be read from a distance of a meter (or more depending on the reader), so I suppose that there is a reader at the exit to check that the customer does not take extra items out -the latter is probably the reason for the QR code scan: the customer is identified when coming in. At the exit, the system checks what is near the exit reader: a phone and a collection of tags. If the two do not match the bought items, the door would not open, I suppose. Presumably, they use near field communication on the phone to insure positioning within that volume.
Watching this, only one thing comes to my mind: My country Ghana and the entire African continent need to abandon our current educational system and adopt new ones that relates to practicals and creativity. How do you teach physics and the sciences at universities and import wheel-barrows? How do you teach wood technology in schools and import tooth picks? How do you teach all engineering course and yet all our roads are built by foreigners? God help me
South Africa has the same issue. The current president is gushing about the 4th Industrial Revolution benefits to the country, but doesn't take into account that a basic thing like electricity can go out at the drop of a dime. The basics aren't even properly in place, and they are already jumping over the intermediate to the advanced level of technology. For a person that is hungry and has no smartphone; of what use is free municipal wifi to that person? o.0
This is most interesting use-case of rfid. Of course I would love to see building your own rfid antenna. I have also one big question about this cashier-less, employee-less store: How do they prevent steeling stuff in case where you are in the store take for example three sodas, from two sodas you tear off rfid tags but only one soda with rfid tag you pay and get out of the store?
For some reason it fascinates me when American's (like myself) live in Asian countries. The logistics, culture change, currency change, even languages are so interesting and I love watching videos of interest where this dynamic is at play, OH and antennas too.
Does it occur to you.. what is the purpose to open a self service shop in a country with over a billion ppl? Doesn't it create an imbalance of economy, if u have a shop u expect to sell goods to ppl for money, but on the flip side, ppl need to sell labor for money also. Jobs is in direct proportion to economic output/sustainability
I've seen the future it's evil. They are putting this crap into humans and rendering it the sole means of exchange in places. Through it corporations and governments can even track your every movement. No good comes from this technology. No good ever will come from this technology. Destroy it while you still have the chance lest you be rendered branded cattle.
Thats a UHF backscatter tag like what is used with EPC global. Very different to the nearfield 13.56MHz tags. These operate in the far field and reflect RF energy by changing the resonance of the antenna and can be read up to 7m away but are effected by high conductivity or high dielectrics such as metal and water.
YES please!!!! There are versions of that coming where distance isn't quite such a factor. Such that you roll through a portal with the buggy and it picks up everyting so you don't have to even unload. Then like the store you were in there is a double door portal after paying for loss prevention.
The cost per tag is way less than 6 cent when you buy in bulk. My company purchase tags from Alien Technology and pay a fraction of that price. In Europe the frequency is 868Mhz and you can read them from over 5-7 meters with the proper equipment. The major issue is metal or water in proximity to the tag or between the tag and reader. That is why they can't put the tags flat on the cans. The tags most likely just contain a I'd number of few bytes. The communication protocol is pretty advanced though because you need to be able to handle hundreds of tags in the same area so it implements collision handling where you can tell tags to sleep when you have read them. You can also reprogram them. Let me now if you want to know more.
Björn Nilsson sounds very promising, are there other limitations to this technology that prevents it from being adopted widely as a replacement to barcodes and/or backup to barcodes?
Joel Bright I don't have so much experience using it for that purpose, but as I remember, Walmart was planning to replace barcodes with rfid many years ago. Price used to be a big issue before, not sure if it still is, maybe for really low cost items. But barcode readers have evolved as well so I guess there isn't as big of an advantage using rfid and then the downsides are still there. You need to apply the tags, they stick out awkwardly, increase cost, read range can be challenging to control so you read tags far away or miss tags that are close. Etc.
> 5-7 meters with the proper equipment
Years ago, when I was doing inventory for the store I worked at, I wished I could just RFID everything. A scan of the shelves would tally things up more accurately and would take a tenth of the time I did manually counting by hand.
CataclysmZA It's like magic when you get it to work.
CataclysmZa - Were you being paid by the hour?
We want to see the home-made antenna!
...and more durian pranks.
Cameras now have facial recognition. You would be stupid to steal from a store that functions on technology.
Nick's Stuff DURIAN IS A LOVELY DELICACY:eXpensive Delicacy to be precise. Don’t boo on it to ENTER a Cultural War!!!!!
Wow..that is a UHF RFID chip..
Yesss, make it man !!!
durian is awesome man
I love his response to "it's not that hard". If I've learned anything from 18 yrs of software engineering, things often look simple until you try and then you realize how complex it is.
woolfel I'm looking forward to him explaining all the problems he has with making his version... those are the really interesting stories
Conversely, once you get over how complex it is and it clicks in your brain, the ways to make it simpler or work better are clearer.
What is the law? I grew up in a family that owned a junkyard, my father owns an automotive repair shop. I learned very soon that the simplest path leads to the correct answer most of the time and everything else is a distraction. The problem usually is that when working on such a complex problem so many paths are available.
I'm looking forward to future videos of him trying.
Realizing how complex things are and then figuring out ways to make them work anyway is part of the fun of this profession, I say.
"my cellphone is out of battery" is the new "I forgot my wallet", I see
And charging your phone on the go is the new u turn back home.
@@ArmadusMalaysia in China, your phone is always out of battery
@@modrak my phone is never out of battery because my battery is always out of phone.
You can rent a power bank in China almost everywhere - restaurants, shopping mall, you name it. No such thing called "out of battery".
NOW IM LOCKED IN THIS FUCKING STORE!!!!!
I love the way he conned his buddy to get a free beer.
"Can I borrow your phone? Mine has a dead battery."
"I kinda think it's beer o'clock, do you want a beer?"
Alright, free beer!
Yeah, then he's the 'generous friend' asking the guy who's paying for everything if he want anything. ;)
Dude is properly Chinese now. Back when I was in primary school in Beijing, we'd always say things like "can I borrow a piece of paper" or "can I borrow your eraser"? The papers are never returned, obviously. And the erasers are returned after we use it for a bit, meaning it's not "returned in full"-- just like his buddy's phone wallet was returned with a little bit of money gone.
I'm very interested in watching you learn how complicated antennas are. :D
Hahah - spoken like a man that knows more about antennas than I do:)
For antenna beginners, go check www.antenna-theory.com/ (very informative "course" about antennas) and don't forget to take a headache pill !
@salutoitoi Wow! that website is straight out of 2002, LOL! Thanks for the jumping off point!
Louie Hannen ARE RFiD similar too contactless and Nfc CHiP’s ??????
Mnad Both of those are specific implementations of RFID.
Keyword is UHF RFID.
I used them in a project where the task was to do an inventory in a facility as fast as possible. Hand-held readers exits which puts out 1 to 3W of power and can read thousands of tags even as far as 5-7m away under 10 seconds. Basically we just entered the room, walked around for a minute and the inventory was done.
"Traditional" RFID/NFC can only deal with one active tag.
Brafilus I'd assume that you can only do that in China. Outputting more than a few hundrete mW in Europe and the US in the 868 and 900 MHz Band is illegal ;-)
Ok, my bad just checked and the fcc actually allows 1W, while depending on the Band ETSI(EU) only allows for 25mW or 500mW at best.
none of the tags shown where active tags. all of them were passive. most of rfid is passive tags anyways. and: you require a lot less power on UHF than you do for HF tags. HF Tags are working near field (magnetic component of the HF field) to transmit energy to the tag like a transformer. UHF tags are working in far field.
HF systems by the way can work easily with 10-20 tags at the same time. Its all about anti-collision which works differently for UHF systems. There is really a lot of missconception around when it comes to buzzwords like RFID, NFC and all that sort of stuff...
Really interesting conversation, I understand how all of the technology that you are mentioning works. Like a key that if detected is registered in the system. The tag is only there to be identified not to perform calculations or respond.
Most shops only need to know what items are stocked, how many of each are available and what items are being taken out of the store or coming in. Thus tags that are designed to be identified in bulk just make sense. Would only have to be on the lookout for people trying to destroy tags or cover them up in faraday cages. Passively monitoring everything in the store and having security on hand can be helpful in this situation.
Makes so much sense I'm wondering what is stopping the technology from being adopted as a backup to the barcode system and eventually replacing it...
The tags need to be designed in such a was that they get destroyed or otherwise damages when the sticker is removed... Does not seem like it is though.
I worked with RFID in the Late 1990s. The supplier I worked with was bought by Hughes ID (HID). They used standard HP inkjet ink to print paper tags for a project that we did with the Postal service. The standard HP ink jet ink is conductive enough to make a good antenna.
For real
I'm Chinese and I was wondering what's inside a cashier-less store like this, then I saw this video and everything explained. Keep it coming, really wanna see more!
I'm curious. Do you live in the mainland?
I live in a 3-tier city in China and we have more than 2 cashier-less stores. I think there is another checker near the door to make sure its consumer has paid for his goods before the door opens.
@Inexactt Lol it's 2020. It'll come to your country soon. If this is demonic part of the evil then what is TH-cam?
Checked Chinese news, 兔兔到家 (the name of the cashierless shop), seems to be an indie/small group/startup operation that launched the shop from around 2017 but probably spent years in developing all the tech. Dont know how well its doing because its pretty much unknown on Chinese news except for in Yiwu.
yes，but there are a lot other company setting this kind of shop，like “taocafe”
The store looked empty, especially the fridges. EIther really a hit and needed to refresh stock, or doesn't get much attention and is just empty.
It’s also probably really easy to steal from them. You just buy something cheap, open the door and have your buddy run in and grab all the drinks.
@@zmaxx21 I am pretty sure they have scans near the door to spot unpaid goods and surveillance cameras inside the store so police can find you easily.
I live in China and often travel to tier 1-2-3 cities and villages for my work. There are only a few such stores in China. The government does not like promoting anything that reduces employment. QED.
What it does not mind doing however is allowing such companies to trial their products in Chinese cities (beta testing) so that they can then export them to developed western nations that wish to replace humans in stores (or don't have people for it). Australia, USA, Scandinavian remote regions...
For example, Shenzhen, a hi tech city where you only see pure electric scooters on the pavements and roads, and where nearly all our street lights are solar powered LED, and 20% of the buses are electric, where most people make smaller payments using wechat bar codes (on their smart phones), there are just a handful of such stores. I havent even seen a single such store in Nanshan, even thoug there are tens of thousands of convenience stores and shops.
Wanna see that Antenna! Definitely! Nice Challenge! First of all because I can‘t do something like this I would like to see you trying this!
hakkepeter1337 Druckfehler
DIY 4G external antenna also would be nice video
In a Spanish clothing shop, they use also rfid on every label price. but the coolest thing is, they have a device what can find the location of the tag. in other words, they can find thiefs even outside of the store and also its easier after shops closed to find all laying around clothes and hang these back to the belonging places.
Christian Schnitt what is the maximum distance you have been able to read one? I'm wanting to work on an experiment to see if I can make a very sensitive antenna to pick up lost pets RF chip. It would be awesome just to reach 200 feet
This is interesting. I’ve just found out that Uniqlo now are using rfid tags on every label. At first i dont know whats the function of these rfid tags that they put on the label. Wow. Do they really able to locate the location of the item eventho they are outside the shops? Thats crazy.
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outside but not far away.like sony tags does
Same here in Finland, in my local grocery store they put those rfid stickers on some seemingly random, and usually low value products. I guess those are the most commonly stolen items.
I've even wanted to build my own tags in the past, that would be so cool!
"Surrounded by computers and browsing a smartphone." - One of the most brilliant quotes on this entire channel, hats off to him.
Man, technology has come a long way. Who would have thought, say 50 years ago, that we would be able to have a cashier-less store and paper-thin, passively-powered tags that can be scanned by just being near the counter.
Honestly, all the videos that are on this channel make me interested in things I never would have cared about before. The way they’re presented is fantastic. I love the down to earth way you go about things and the way you are obviously excited about everything you come across. Keep it up 👍
Thank you for this episode. When I saw that store in Colin's Yiwu video, I was very curious about it, and hoped you would talk about it in a future episode.
I am interested how they stop theft because if you just took off the sticker and left it in the store and took the item how would they stop you?
I think there are probably cameras as well, but don't remember offhand. Petty theft like this doesn't seem to be as prominent here as a lot of other places I've been. Not to say it doesn't happen, but it happens a lot less as far as I can tell. So things can be more relaxed without it being a huge problem. For instance, I see bicycles and ebikes all the time that are just locked with a simple chain through the rear wheel...
Strange Parts good to know. England is worse
There were cameras outside and inside in the corners. The ones inside look like the type of dome cameras that can be remotely moved with zoom etc
Darkskynet I suppose there will be security watching live then
maybe in the walls near the door they have another RFID reader that verifies that the data it reads match exactly with that of a recent purchase made...you know like guards outside malls do! just a guess
So it's like a walk in vending machine.
Which is basically a (non-food) automat, if you're old!
just a suggestion. Maybe you should trade mark the name. 🤪
Exactly my thought too! That’s a good name actually
looks like an al you can eat buffet to me lol
@@oldskoolhead0 gets locked in* i guess you can smash the door but you also scanned your phone and in china phones are tied to your "social security" card so they can find you pretty easily probably
That concept in its entirety is mad brilliant. If you could integrate RFID or NFC into the packaging, you could almost completely automate an American convenience store. You might have to have one or two employees for a 7 Eleven or Lawson scale store in order to maintain shelves authorize alcohol, tobacco, and gasoline sales, but it would make management and operation of them way easier. I could totally get behind this business model.
The RFID-tag does not transmit anything. You saw how it loaded down the transmitter on the frequency sweep he did on the miniVNA? RFID-tags communicate by modulating how much it's loading the transmitter. Say you have a small transmitter at 850 MHz and the chip gets near and loads down the transmitter. This can be detected in the power usage in the transmitter. The tag will modulate (morse code, on/off, just WAY more complicated) and the power usage figure is decoded and data comes out :)
That made hell a lot more sense than a tiny chip being able to both work and *somehow* gather enough power to rebroadcast. Thanks.
It's kind of like doing a side-channel attack, but it's the intended way of communicating with it :)
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You are describing an NFC (near field communication) chip read process. There the item needs to be placed very close, almost touching, the reader.
This was an UHF RFID chip (completely different wavelength range), that can be read from meters away. It diffracts (reflects with alteration) back the signal it gets from the reader, and that's what the reader picks up. So it actually does send a response, not just cause a "disturbance in the Force" like in NFC.
"Surrounded by computers and browsing from smartphone"
haha, good one! :)
Wow. China is beating amazon to the punch. A bit different from amazons concept tho
Would the door not open if you had anything that wasn't paid for?
Unnamed Review Guy if you also not buy anything u can scan the qrcode behind the door
Unnamed Review Guy China still has a lot of high technology but many Foreigners don't know that China is a big innovator. China's rise has been unstoppable, and that is the trade war America has waged against China. America is bound to lose this trade war.
Amazon's method is over the top. Using expensive AI and cameras to know what you pick up lmao. Even then it only works for certain items
That’s when the lasers come out.
I actually tried just that and yea as someone else said, just scan the QR code next to the door
Those are called "UHF RFID Tags". The tranceiver is capable of reading muptiple tags at once. That means that you could have placed those items on a cash register in the shop at once (like in a shopping bag) and it would read all of them at once without a problem.
What is even more cool is that 2 beers and a bottle of water only cost £1.74!
Amazing
Am I the only one who wants copies of the cool vintage posters?
did you find any hints where they are from?
Oh it's you... gr8... (btw, your vids are terrible. I hope you're learning from this guy ;) ).
They are from the National Safety Council, but I have no luck so far in finding a source that ships outside of the USA
There's always Borderlinx for that.
Wow. You're here as well.
Alibaba and taobao is such a thing where I went to buy stepper motors and ended up buying a giant and expensive microscope.
BwaHaHaaa the dangers of chinese shopping. Now I need a warehouse for all my goodies... :-)
Christian von Delius if you are buying development boards (arduino, espruino, etc) or LCD panels it is perfect for that. But then you start buying big RFID readers, genuine security cameras (when it arrives first thing to do is install Dahua firmware to it and change password) and stuff like connectors or terminal blocks it goes too far. Then you discover things like RuiDeng power supply modules (only place they sell them) that are worth their money. Then you come across a Andonstar ADSM302 with free DHL shipping and you have no choice to buy it.
@@felenov So is Alibaba & Taobao better than Aliexpress? I have noticed the price of electronics keep going up and up and up on Aliexpress, my guess is simply because they can, because people will pay it. Are the prices on Alibaba & Taobao more reasonable than Aliexpress these days?
@@skins4thewin Sellers love playing with the prices. They raise the price and discount it. Or the moment the sale starts, prices go through the roof. So be careful and watch the prices, then you will be good. Also asking the seller to give more information about the product sometimes gets you a lower price
@@felenov Hm, I have only seen prices get raised from what I have seen, but perhaps that is due to the types of products I look for, which is mainly electronics and video game related items. I suppose because Americans are willing to pay more for them they feel they can raise the prices accordingly. Shame to hear that about prices going up during sales, that's a shame.
Either way, do you think that either Alibaba or Taobao has better value than a place like Aliexpress? Am just curious.
Durian in Southeast Asia is popular and delicious
I agree with the first of your two statements:)
Fikri Rizaldi Kamil durianrider?
Durian is awesomeeeeeee
Fikri Rizaldi Kamil I don't know I tried ice-cream not the fruit by itself in China, it's not as bad as they make it look but I'm not a fan and can think of many delicious fruit.....it tastes bad...
Durian taste bad
Not really an apple fan myself, but I must say your character is so energetic that I love to watch every video of yours! Keep up the good work, it is highly informing and I already learned so much from you!
I remember reading an article several years ago that Walmart was actively researching options to attach tags to all retail products but they need the price of the tag technology to less than $0.01 per tag to meet their business demands. Also recently received a pair of Five Ten sneakers owned by ADIDAS company. When I was removing the cardboard paper tag from one of the shoes and noticed the paper splitting I discovered this same type of tag was sandwiched inside. So of course I rinsed off all the cardboard paper fivers from the sticky film the antenna and chip was attached to and wound up wit someone very closely to what you have. At fist I though it was a loss prevention tag but I now think its more an asset ID tag for contactless inventory and next gen POS purposes.
Great video and god I bet that durian ice cream pop was interesting! LOL
well, they could sell 100 through hole transistor for a dollar and thats including shipping cost.
shouldn't surprise anyone if they could make one of those RFID tag under 2cents each.
So cool!! I cant wait to go to China one day! You always show such cool stuff in your videos.
I'm so glad Scotty is doing these videos. If you look around TH-cam, most people are just making videos about the worst things they can find in China to complain about for the bandwagon views. When I visited China it was extremely friendly towards Westerners and my only complaint is about the cigarette concentration, but that is also going down.
rr kk 老哥社会主义不是这个这个词。
I hope you are not an underaged trying to get cheap beer and liquors here. ~JK
Whats to stop someone paying for the cheapest item and ripping off the tags and stealing a heap of other items? Is it an honesty system or is there other types of security?
When you scan yourself IN to open the door, they know who you are, cameras get activated in the shop, etc. So It'd be pretty tightly monitored.
in china ur citizen id is tied to phone and apps. skynet and social credit system crazy stuff lol
besides all the Skynet and other crazy stuff, manless shops make sense as long as the system is good enough to keep the lost on shoplifting less than hiring a cashier
It's not very hard for someone to stealthly sneak a tag off of the item you take and put it on another item on the shelves, and then keep that out of the camera's line of sight, they won't know you took a extra item, and can't prove it in theory since the tag is still in the shop, plus their system doesn't alert them of shoplifting of removed tags if said unpaid tag does not go anywhere near the door.
Remember that all systems can't be fool proofed, unless you weld the tags to said items so it's not removable, OR hide it on said product so one would not know where to look to remove it..
Unless the scanning platform also weighs your products on the sly and bills you for the rest later. :-)
So I just started working for a company called Triple Crown, im a technical recruiter and I have learned so much about what you do and enjoy this channel even more now than before. I just spent all day looking for an rfic design engineer with mmwave experience. You should do a video on that, mmwave tech.
Those stickers look like UHF RFID tags (UHF can have pretty huge read ranges). They come in an insane variety of antenna shapes and ICs (depending if you want read only, or user writable data, or even onboard sensors if you want active tags).
The copper coil ones however (like tap cards) are probably LF or HF RFID. They aren't designed for longer range reads (because you only want to read at a close proximity).
55 cashiers didnt like the video
any chance of exploring an e-reader/e-ink factory, like the screens made for kindle or kobo (lots on Alibaba, would be cool to see if company photos are real or fake as well)
In USA if there would have been put a similar one there it would not have been broken into or hacked into, the whole store would just have been plain stolen.
dtiydr there is though here in Seattle (Amazon), and it's significantly more high tech than this one.
Amazon is most likely collecting data for itself with all that tech.
It is actually nice that Chinese society apparently has this level of integrity that this system will work. Sad note on American society that I agree with your comment.
Amazon Go primarily relies on computer vision (and scales). Amusingly enough, the company that makes these RFID chips (Impinj) is located next to Amazon's headquarters.
I assume Amazon Go relies somewhat on crowdsourced verification of their computer vision analysis (via something like MTurk), so there's probably still some humans in the loop. The real question is whether computer vision (with human augmentation as needed) will end up being cheaper than putting a tag on each item. But with tags on everything, you can get more benefits: a fridge that knows expiration dates and potential product recalls of everything inside, automated recycling sorting, seamless returns based on the unique ID of the tag, etc.
awesomeferret actually Alibaba group, giant company just like Amazon in Asia. They have 20 outlets without cashier just like the only Amazon Go in Seattle. JD.ID X , first AI based supermarket in Asia outside China in Jakarta, Indonesia. I’m an Indonesian and surprisingly JD.ID X sells stuffs with the same price like other normal supermarket and even cheaper for special deals. You don’t even need to scan or put the groceries on the scanner just walk and confirm your face.
I don’t care what you make your videos on because they are all interesting. Thanks for making both entertaining and interesting videos about life and technology in china.
I love hate how your geeky enthusiasm forces me to watch your videos! I mean, I don't get to see these things here in Canada but heck, I can't stop watching what new tech you come across and the tribulations of understanding it.
Let me know if you want to visit Zhiyun Gimbal factory at Guilin.
Yes, absolutely! Contact me on twitter or via email and let's talk more.
Strange Parts Awesome! I'll send an email to you tomorrow!
我也想来参观可以吗？
Dji won't be happy then 🚁💔
Cant wait to see that!!!!!!
Hell yes to more RFID. Maybe even get one implanted. I have two and they're great for hacking. One even works with the local hackerspace door access system.
Wait, so now we are reverse engineering chinese made products to see how they are made? Cool!
Lol
That thing started years ago. Eg, Amazo/ delivery service. Mail boxes. Apple Pay. Let’s just say that business model is shared to all human beings.
BigCliveDotcom is doing this for years, actually :P. Up to the point that watching some of his cheap Chinese USB chargers he got sent to from viewers has made me incredibly cautious about seeing people using them and without any reluctance handling their metal-cased phone....
Something called copyright
People have already been using this. TH-camrs are just pretending for hype
I've taken apart exact RFID stickers like that from cell phone accessories (likely from China) YEARS ago. Like 8-9 years ago at least. I don't remember if the chip was that small. I didn't analyse it as well as you did. The antenna was identical though. They also sell those antennas to stick on your phone to "boost reception". Cool tech. Thanks for the video
Your energy and attitude are a joy to watch. Thanks for all you do!
It's just conductive ink antenna. You can get conductive ink for your printer and even for 3D printers.
"It's not that hard"...... 😜🤣🤣 I love your optimism. 😂😂😂 I'd like to see your antenna results. Or rather your bumbling and stumbling into a sort of working results 🤓🤣👍
Great video man. Thanks for sharing.
What if your phone battery runs out inside the store
maybe it has a motion sensor, so it opens any time someone comes close, except if they're carrying something that was not paid for.
Yeah, I was thinking the same. I think there was another QR code for you if you weren't buying anything. I may be wrong, but I was thinking about what if there was a power cut, and you'd be locked inside
Good point. The mere hypothesis gets me out of breath... haha
Slap a tag on your head and hope whoever buys you is nice.
Just borrow your friends and make them pay for everything XD
They need somebody to keep an inventory of stock and stack shelves and to set prices for the items in the system also label prices on items and notify customers of offers as well as to keep the premises clean
Man I aint know much about computers or what a RFID stands for and all of that but I dig watching you figure stuff out and solve problems
+Strange Earth, the RFID stickers are made with printed Silver Chloride. There's a company based in San Rafael, California called Byte Foods that sets up mini refrigerators in offices and lunch rooms that sell food.
This is cool, I guess. But I don't see why they don't just have a standard barcode scanning machine. Cheaper and no waste.
My guess is they use rfid because it's more thief proof than Barcode. Because with barcode you can scan cheap items but you actually bring out an expensive one. Or You can even go out without even paying anything.
Bar codes dont have the ability to send information back to the reader. As far as swapping RFID tags with a lower-priced product, there are ways to verify if something has been tampered with. Such as using a product's weight as verification. Many self-checkout systems (in the USA) use this method to catch would-be bar-code swappers. This is why after scanning an item, you usually have to place the item in the bagging area (which serves as a scale) so that the added weight can be checked against the known weight of each item.
They may also use a camera to make sure the product visually matches the product reported by the RFID tag
China is more advanced than i anticipated,that's really cool.
@Brandy Wasay yeah bro all those inovations out of china are foriegns all 1000's of them big and small
Nah, Chinese just too greedy to pay to shop keepers, so they use available technology to cut costs.
Brandy Wasay no, the majority foreigners works in china as English teacher or reporters, don’t be salty just becuz others have better technology and living conditions than u do.
@@blackricejam8984 yeah right.......
@Brandy Wasay Keep thinking like that and spread this to the world especially USA.The Chinese will very much appreciate you.
Your channel is so cool.
Is so funny Stuart saying "Oh, you should make your own antenna....." Like how you actually explain the process you are going through. Makes me think of the phrase. "Inquiring minds want to know...."
It's really amazing to see how a guy jumped to TH-cam and suddenly started a second life!
How would Collin haggle/bargain here?
Yeah right, you try that where i live and the store is empty in no time.. And not in the good way.
Can you look into wireless changing for phones and stuff?
Wait, he needs to charge his phone first
It's just copper called wireless transmission rings or something
It is UHF tag. 1st, it mean you can’t read it with HF reader. 2nd, I assuming they chosed UHF to scan all items inside the store for both inventory and security.
Seems they have two type reader inside that store. 1 is native UHF reader to scan the entire store. The other 1 you use to check out is a reader that limit the coverage so it only read everything on the reader surface.
I’m working in rfid for 11 years
it's so nice to see some plants right outside your office...looks relaxing.
pee flavored ice-cream, thats some astronaut level stuff XD
PEA I think, but food for thought! HAHA
jake if it's in China it probly real pee
Bear Grylls would love it!
it is just the durian flaver icecream
Durian either tastes like custard or rancid farts, depending on who you are and how your taste buds work.
“It’s not that hard” tell that to my electrical engineer buddies 😂😂😂
Now, do a fight: Durian vs Surströmming!
Woah, calm down satan.
You should definitely "design" your own antenna. Start by "making" one. And then "design" your own. That would be a great series of episodes. Get Stew and co as guests when you hit a brick wall. I can already see your "designed" antenna as the Strange Parts logo ;)
I LOVE WHAT YOU DO, Please don;t stop! I can,t be there in China so, you bring me closer to that country with each of your videos, THANKS my friend.
Awesome no need to talk to the cashier :)
THIS IS SO COOL!!!
Jack ma is the greatest man inChina.He created new shopping electric system and totally change life style of all Chinese.
It was fun to see how RFID tags really look. My local library (in Shenzhen China) has been using them for a few years now.
I saw a similar unmanned store in Quanzhou (Fujian) last year. Fun fact - Very few Chinese people were using it! They were all using the manned convenience store located opposite to it instead.
Not seen any such shops in Shenzhen, but there are two such cabinets below my building with small conveniences like small milk cartons and drinks - both work on a similar principle, but using wechat.
I think the Chinese are making them and beta testing them in Chinese cities, so that they can export them to developed countries where people enjoy the idea of employing fewer people (low overheads, low prices).
A bit like Luck in coffee's unmanned coffee stands.
So how does the door system work? If you scan the code to get in it has to know at the door that all the products you are removing are paid for right? So it will not open the door if you have not paid for products. Then there has to be some reading of the rfid at the door as well as at the till.
我爱你的视频。我后来想去中国学习中文，谢谢你介绍中国的技术
哈哈，难怪听起来有点不通顺。
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蛤改变了中国 I'm trying boi
你的中文很好
Guess we are all bound to have our phone as our wallet :) In Denmark it will probably be Mobile Pay app that wins.
And lol that Durian ice cream...WTF, apparently the fruit is not allowed on public transport etc cause it stinks.
Vipps in Norway; the only place I still have to use a card to pay is in the local grocery store and Burger King who both signed up with a competitor that went out of business. Ideally I'll have an app on my watch soon so I don't have to bring my phone either.
Whats your cost of living / rent in Shenzhen?
I just want to say that, they use this technology at Uniqlo in Japan. And as a engineer student I was really curious how they work. Thank you.
I wonder if you could adjust the response from an antenna to encode data in the spectrum. like having multiple resonance points on a fractal antenna and those resonance points are some 4-8 bit combination code. you wouldnt need a chip like this right? it could be like QAM where the exact strength of the resonance also has some binning to it that encodes information. the scanner just sweeps these fractal antennas and the answer is the energy it gets reflected back (or lack thereof).
it doesnt have to sweep the entire spectrum like expensive analysis equipment either just the expected set points of the fractals that are manufactured (the 4-8 bit combination). the scanner could also be a fractal antenna that resonates at all the expected frequencies.
where is the blonde guy from?
Pretty sure he is Finnish, from Finland I mean
Lauri Hakkarainen siltä vähän vaikuttiki
Torille?
Durian is delicious bro😂 I can take two or three whole fruit
2 bucks for 2 beers and a water? wtf
Keezo that's not that bad
Bas V dude I'm saying it's cheap af haha
I run a half marathon a month back, and after that took the number tag (that had a timing chip in it) apart, that I had attached to my shirt during the run. Under a foam pad there I found a precisely similar looking chip-antenna thing as there is in those tags, but in like a 4in wide form and a bit thinner. In places where the split times were taken the route was narrowed to like 3-4m probably and there were some plate-like antennas placed on at least one side - cannot remember precisely but might´ve been on both sides also..
don’t know how came past this channel but I learn loads thanks
Don't steal tampons like Linus
Don't steal Linus like tampons
Nah, Linus only returned tampons without actually returning them.
Except they weren't tampons
that chip is mark of the beast
End times are near!
sheila ally The sheep are to blind to see it. They will be lined up and gladly accept it.
Perhaps so ... I do not fear the BEAST .... yet.
The profit margin on bottle water is huge, idk why he said it's tiny when it's not
Not really when it's 20-30 cents a bottle
@@jackdavies5331 way way less when buying bulk more like 5-10, I work for a big retail store we pay 8c for 1 water bottle, of course we buy huge amounts so maybe that's it
@@veritasDL I'm talking the cost to the consumer. That's how much I pay for an individual bottle
Why do you ask if we would like to see when you try to make your own antenna? You know we do, all your videos are amazing! Always joy and lots of fun when a new Strange Parts video pops up! :)
More info on these types of tags:
-cost is fractions of cents (typically 0,1c), so well adapted to convenience store items
-the frequency they work at is typically 866, 916 or 920 MHz, close to GSM frequencies which allow for more efficient antenna within the available volume
-typically, the chip is very simple and just sends an identification number back
-they can be read from a distance of a meter (or more depending on the reader), so I suppose that there is a reader at the exit to check that the customer does not take extra items out
-the latter is probably the reason for the QR code scan: the customer is identified when coming in. At the exit, the system checks what is near the exit reader: a phone and a collection of tags. If the two do not match the bought items, the door would not open, I suppose. Presumably, they use near field communication on the phone to insure positioning within that volume.
Will u visit India?
Nitish singh he already did
stop wipe sht off with your hands and eat with hands afterward. Eat like a human, use a spoon or chopstick.
Calm down. What made you feel that that was appropriate?
Nitish singh What does India have? India is the poorest country in the world.
Watching this, only one thing comes to my mind: My country Ghana and the entire African continent need to abandon our current educational system and adopt new ones that relates to practicals and creativity. How do you teach physics and the sciences at universities and import wheel-barrows? How do you teach wood technology in schools and import tooth picks? How do you teach all engineering course and yet all our roads are built by foreigners? God help me
South Africa has the same issue. The current president is gushing about the 4th Industrial Revolution benefits to the country, but doesn't take into account that a basic thing like electricity can go out at the drop of a dime. The basics aren't even properly in place, and they are already jumping over the intermediate to the advanced level of technology. For a person that is hungry and has no smartphone; of what use is free municipal wifi to that person? o.0
When you said pea flavoured , I thought you meant pee flavoured
Probably taste the same...
Oh it is in the 900mhz range it should be pretty easy to design and build an antenna. The ARRL has a ton of info on building uhf+ antennas.
This is most interesting use-case of rfid. Of course I would love to see building your own rfid antenna. I have also one big question about this cashier-less, employee-less store: How do they prevent steeling stuff in case where you are in the store take for example three sodas, from two sodas you tear off rfid tags but only one soda with rfid tag you pay and get out of the store?
Coming to America once min wage is raised to $15 :)
People here would wait for someone to open the door and walk out with the entire store, we're a different breed around here mate.
不会英语的我竟然看完了，真的希望有中文字幕
我把后面的约跑看成了约炮
右下角设置那里有字幕可以自动翻译成中文，虽然会有很明显的机翻感觉，但可以看得懂
sad for you，加油兄弟
Yea
电脑板谷歌浏览器有自动翻译
6:49 Pee flavored. Glad to know it's not just me into that stuff. United we stand, together we pee.
This is fucking fascinating. I have no idea why you don't have more subs. Big ups dude just found your channel.
Bc of TH-cam won't promote or will restrict everything positive about China. For fREEdoOm！！Woohoo！
For some reason it fascinates me when American's (like myself) live in Asian countries. The logistics, culture change, currency change, even languages are so interesting and I love watching videos of interest where this dynamic is at play, OH and antennas too.
I always like foreign people reaction eating durian.
I am Indonesian and I like it. It doesnt even smell bad to me.
Sorry for my bad english
Does it occur to you.. what is the purpose to open a self service shop in a country with over a billion ppl? Doesn't it create an imbalance of economy, if u have a shop u expect to sell goods to ppl for money, but on the flip side, ppl need to sell labor for money also. Jobs is in direct proportion to economic output/sustainability
Ive seen the future and you shopped at it
I've seen the future it's evil. They are putting this crap into humans and rendering it the sole means of exchange in places. Through it corporations and governments can even track your every movement. No good comes from this technology. No good ever will come from this technology. Destroy it while you still have the chance lest you be rendered branded cattle.
Thats a UHF backscatter tag like what is used with EPC global. Very different to the nearfield 13.56MHz tags. These operate in the far field and reflect RF energy by changing the resonance of the antenna and can be read up to 7m away but are effected by high conductivity or high dielectrics such as metal and water.
YES please!!!! There are versions of that coming where distance isn't quite such a factor. Such that you roll through a portal with the buggy and it picks up everyting so you don't have to even unload. Then like the store you were in there is a double door portal after paying for loss prevention.