Taiwan Library Tracks Magazine Browsing with RFID

Taiwan’s National Library of Public Information wanted to bring visibility into its hundreds of magazines on display, as it digitizes its periodical system.

This summer they enlisted the support of RFID technology company EPC Solutions to digitally track these physical magazines and their readership.

The five-story library has a periodicals section with 53 individual display racks containing a total of 600 different journals. The library has 47,183 volumes that must be tracked including those that are no longer on display.

They came to EPC Solutions to deploy an automated solution that would help identify when each magazine was handled and for how long.