CENTURY RFID streamlines, secures and optimizes operations with its self-checkout machine

RFID technology is developing in Retail sector for several years and it is consolidating its presence in certain specialized segments that are setting trends and opening the way to the rest of wholesale and retailers.

The CENTURY group is one of the first and largest providers of RFID consumables. The company based in Hangzhou - China and that owns production centres in different regions of the country supplies a massive quantity of unique-code labelling elements which are distributed through its network of partners, worldwide. The company takes a step forward in the development of retail-oriented technology, launching a specific range of RFID hardware aimed at streamlining, securing and optimizing processes at "self-checkout" payment stations.

The CER900 system is a self-checkout point of payment desk that includes a 19”video touch-screen terminal for the customer to interact with the device, simply and intuitively. The solution is mounted inside a highly ergonomically designed, lacquered steel cabinet. An electrically shielded drawer is included; this is where the purchased items are directly inserted by the store clients, so that their corresponding RFID identification codes are read and computerized processing of collection and automatized stock management adjustment follows.

Also included in the set is a thermal printer for purchase tickets. Likewise, in order to offer a complete solution, Century's engineering team has gathered the demand of stores managers, to combat the fraudulent detachment of anti-theft / RFID hard tags from their pins; the widely standardized way to the protect garment that complement the RFID soft source-tagging that uses to be originally imbedded. To eliminate the threat of unauthorized hard-tags/pins decoupling, the intelligent electronic detacher AUTOTAG has been added to the CER900 machine, in its RFID version that reads the tag ID simultaneously to the operation of detaching the hard-tag of its pin.

When the system detects that the purchased article passes through the self-checkout and it has been duly paid, if the garment would be protected with an anti-theft hard RFID tag, the 19” touch-screen display will ask the client, to undock the tag at the AUTOTAG reader-detacher, releasing the garment from its protection. If the product does not include hard-tag identification, it will certainly have an embedded soft RFID label added at source (in its manufacturing process) and the customer will automatically be advised to deposit the item in the reading drawer of the CER900 device.

With this technological combination developed entirely by CENTURY, the self-checkout sequence rises to its most complete level, speeding up the process of reading RFID codes, freeing the products correctly charged to the client's account and optimizing times, increasing the clients' satisfactory purchasing experience and the profitability of sales in retail environment.

By another hand, in order to grant customers a full round service, Century has built an open-platform solution that can combine stores' management software with the RFID platform, on demand of our customers and in close cooperation with the retailers' software department. Application can be developed by specialized partners, Century will support them.

A binding software is also available, for warehouse stock management RFID processes. Century has one of the wider RFID labels/tags range. There is always a way to match whatever standard or specific request, normal hard-tag locking or AUTOTAG encoded lock, with RFID or hybrid  RF+RFID, AM+RFID technology built-in in a smart and cost effective manner.

More information: http://www.century-cn.com/ - contact our Regional Directors.