Fujitsu has announced the availability of UHF-band RFID (radio frequency identification) document management tags, which enable improved management of important documents, such as loan documents, contracts and mail.

The new tags will be available from 30 September. The tags overcome one of the drawbacks of conventional RFID tags, which is that they previously could not transmit signals when stacked tightly together.

However, it is now possible to simultaneously read the new tags even when spaced only 2mm apart in a stack of documents.

As a result, customers can use a handheld RFID tag reader to efficiently manage tagged documents, even when they are stacked or packed in boxes.

In addition, when using this system, whereas it used to take three seconds to read the signal from just one document, 100 documents can now be read in just four seconds, dramatically reducing the workload of businesses managing large volumes of documents.

And because the tags can be read while documents remain stored on shelves or in cardboard boxes, the document management tags help to prevent leaks of personal data, enabling secure document management.

The new technology has been developed by Fujitsu RFID and point of sale subsidiary Fujitsu Frontech