RFID chip and ice creams

Filed in archive Implementation on May 25, 2010

Now get the taste of RFID technology with your favorite ice cream flavor. Izzy's Ice Cream Café in St. Paul, Minnesota is putting to use RFID technology for giving real time updated on flavors available in its dipping cabinet. It offers more than 100 flavors but serves only 32 in its dipping cabinet at any point of time. The cabinet come equipped with readers capturing every flavor's corresponding labels embedded with an RFID tag.

The reader captures information 22 times every second and is sent to a system which updates website of the parlor so that customers get to know what is available even before they enter the store. Colored dots are projected on the wall of the store or TV behind the counter so that the customers get to know the flavors available.

Whenever a new flavor is placed by an employee in the dipping cabinet, it is swapped by RFID tag in front of the tub with one corresponding to that flavor. Customers signing up will get text messages and e-mail updates whenever the favorite flavor gets served.