Authentification of medical cartridge with RFID

With RFID technology Murata supports safety in medical care.

Authentification of drug ampule can prevent medication error and also enable antomatic recording of medication doses.

Difficulties in the medical device market

- Failure or error in checking the times of use and expiration date.
- It contributes to the reduction of manpower at the medical scenes.
- Verification by barcode on the package cannot guarantee the information of the product without package.

Users can automatically verify that the correct part is used within specified use time and expiration date.

Other value with RFID

- Encode device setting/prescription history inside memory for each drug ampule.

Store product information and usage history in rewritable memory (User memory, EPC memory). Password lock function prevents memory falsification.
Each IC has unique, non-rewritable serial number, which can be used to verify product information.
Near-field communication eliminates the space between reader writer and tag.
Non-contact reading can avoid the risk of wear out. reader writer and tag can communicate even when contaminated with chemicals, etc.

- Small and robust design which can be embedded into products, maintaining current product design.
- Near-field communication prevents accidental reading of surrounding parts.
- Murata can support not only tags but also reader writer integration and antenna design.

- RFID tags azre incorporated into consumable parts and reader/writer/antenna.
- Read and write operations are performed by attaching consumables to the main unit.