NEC TOKIN is one of a handful of manufacturers in Japan providing wide-ranging technology and know-how through total solutions from media cards, tags, reader/writer terminals (reader/writer) and other hardware to IC card OS and access control systems software. For example, most manufacturers for tags purchase finished modules called Clip On Board (COB) from semiconductor manufacturers and process these for card and other types to be sold. However, NEC TOKIN does not manufacture IC circuits, but performs consistent production whereby it purchases wafer forms from semiconductor manufacturers, cuts them thinly and precisely, divides them into individual chips, designs and attaches antennas to a shape matched to the purpose and processes them to cards and tags. This keeps costs down yet provides high quality. Another great advantage of NEC TOKIN is its analog design, antenna and simulation technologies cultivated over many long years. Some might wonder why handle analog in this digital age. Yet, analog technology is vital to an RFID world using radio waves. Radio waves are extremely delicate where just the slightest environmental impact such as the shape of a room, the location of steel framing, or where people gather most often prevents its performance from being realized. In this situation, site engineering, such as simulation technology to analyze environments, arrange devices, design antennas to be attached to tags and verify that they function correctly, is key to realizing high performance. Tags and readers/writers also do not resonate radio waves if communications distance and power consumption, etc. do not match, making it difficult to receive radio waves up to the distance originally intended. In response, NEC TOKIN, with its two-way analog technology on the tag and reader/writer side, can provide the perfect system configuration. NEC TOKIN has materials technology for various tag types and the know-how to manufacture high quality cards with proven results in telephone cards, etc. There are actually many types of tags. For example, tableware such as dishes at revolving sushi restaurants is washed in very hot water to maintain hygiene. As a result, processing technology using heat-resistant resin conforming to the Food Hygiene Law is required for tableware tags. For employee and student IDs, the smoothness of the card surface must also be maintained in order to apply a leuko layer for printing facial pictures and names on the card surface and for printing out the remaining balance. Or, for tag types affixed to metals, performance drops when radio waves are emitted to the metallic side, thus it is essential to have a method of creating a layer without radio waves being emitted to the metallic side. Whenever customers request us to do something in a particular way, or have questions about how to realize their visions, NEC TOKIN is ready and fully equipped to provide the perfect system configuration to respond to any requests or questions from its customers. The NEC TOKIN RFID is already being used in many locations, and the company provides a full lineup of products from 125 kHz to 2.45 GHz. NEC TOKIN would like to use its high technology and full capabilities to play a wider role in the forming of a fundamental ubiquitous society in the future.