taiwan’s electric scooter rider get a charge from rfid
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If you’ve ever been to an Asian country, I believe you would find scooters like swarms of locusts buzzing around the streets. In Taiwan, there are 23 million residents on the island with 15 million scooters. A gas powered scooter emits a huge amount of exhausts as well as noise, both of which are unhealthy for our respiratory system and hearing. But, there’s a solution…e-scooter, which is a newly developed answer to Clean Transportation around my hometown just like TESLA. But, there are some limitations with e-scooters as compared to gas powered scooters. Most prospective users care about two weaknesses of e-scooters, 1. battery recharging takes much longer than refilling a gasoline tank. 2.“range anxiety”, “you might ride it out but couldn’t ride it back” . Our BES (“Battery Exchange Station”) can eliminate these two major concerns. But, can KENTFA manage a BES and most important of all, how do we manage batteries? RFID makes battery manageable. Our solution requires a passive UHF RFID tag on all batteries to monitor all battery movements inside the cabinet of BES and to perform the vital tasks, 1.Real time battery monitoring 2. Incoming battery ID validation 3. BES is also equipped with a passive HF RFID reader to read the subscriber’s card and to determine if the ID number is valid. For the pilot run in Kaohsiung city, all e-scooters participating must have a KENTFA supplied battery since every battery needs to be RFID tagged. KENTFA will propose to the EPA that an industry standard be established for a common specification for scooter batteries. Users might turn in their current batteries and get new, tagged batteries so that they can use a BES. How does BES work?( Please visit our website: www.kentfa.com.tw).The e-scooter aims to replace the gasoline powered scooter. Carbon emissions for an e-scooter is only 17.5% compared with that of a gasoline powered scooter.Page13, this slide shows carbon reduction in two ways. The one highlighted in red shows the carbon reduction attributed to the substitution of gas powered scooters with e-scooters. The other highlighted in green shows the battery in a BES transforms the carbon into a storage battery while the capacity falls below 80%. According to KENTFA’s business plan, the overall green contribution is close to 200K tons of carbon reduction which is equivalent to planting 2.7 million trees. There are 580,000 gasoline powered scooters in Kaohsiung, 15 million in Taiwan, and 63 million in the world as of 2012 with a worldwide estimate of 150 million by 2025. If we could totally replace them with e-scooters or other green bikes, the world would see about 43 million tons of carbon reduction. In other words, we would need to plant 2 billion trees to get the equivalent amount of carbon reduction today and in 2025, we would save 4 billion trees. Even though human beings have spoiled the Creation, we still have chance to fix it. We believe BES is one of the answers to save the Earth.TRANSCRIPT
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Presented by Morris ChiuKENTFA Advanced Technology Corp.
Taiwan’s Electric Scooter Rider Get a Charge From
RFID
RFID Green Award
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A small island with population of 23 million, congested with 15 million scooters…
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You don’t need to bear it anymore
A Way out
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How to resolve the problem of lengthy recharging and limited
driving range ? BES makes it possible to exchange a
battery in 80 seconds rather than recharging a battery for several hours.
BES extends the driving range of scooters.
But, how can we manage the batteries ?
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RFID Makes Batteries Manageable
Place RFID Tag on the batteries of all suppliers Track which battery is exchanged and by whom
through UHF and HF without manned assistance. Collect information about each battery, scooter’s
I.D. and consumption data.(“Battery pedigree”) Recycle battery easily with RFID.
KENTFA was retained by Environmental Protection Administration to implement a pilot run installing 30 BES in Kaohsiung City.
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Micro Film “How does BES work ?”
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Profile of BES and RFID System Inside
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Challenge : RFID in a Metallic Surroundings
We developed a near-field antenna fit for each rack, with a cable running through a slot to each battery.
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Challenge : Enhance tag durability
We designed a new tag to overcome the challenges1. Small form factor required2. RFID reads inside a metallic environment3. Maintain battery viability after several
hundred temperature cycles.
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Why does BES deserve Green Award?
Battery Recycling
Creating a Green Environment
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Amount of Carbon Emission for Varied Vehicles
Source: Industry Technology Research Institute of Taiwan; Ministry of Communication & Transportation, Taiwan(R.O.C.)
Unit: gCO2/km
e-Scooters emit the least amount of CO2
Automobile 256.5
HEV 126.8
EV 77.7
Motorcycle 112.4
e-Scooters 19.7
Bus 47.7
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Overall Green Contribution by KENTFA
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 20180
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
3426832
2732854666
95648
136640
0140
2934
13972
33533
61478 Tranformed to Storage Batteries(ton)
Substitute for Scooters(ton)
yearSource: Business Plan of KENTFA
Kaohsiung Taiwan Global 2012 Global 2025 -
10,000,000 20,000,000 30,000,000 40,000,000 50,000,000 60,000,000 70,000,000 80,000,000 90,000,000
100,000,000
396,255 10,247,985
43,041,537
88,815,870
CO2 Reduction(ton/year)
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Return on InvestmentFrom Kaohsiung to the World
Source: EPA of Taiwan, R.O.C. ； eCycle Electric ；American Forests
KENTFA 2018 Kaohsiung Taiwan Global 2012 Global 2025 -
500,000,000
1,000,000,000
1,500,000,000
2,000,000,000
2,500,000,000
3,000,000,000
3,500,000,000
4,000,000,000
4,500,000,000
136,640 396,255 10,247,985 43,041,537 88,815,870 6,210,909 18,011,610
465,817,500
1,956,433,50
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4,037,085,00
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CO2 Reduction Equivalent Amount of Trees Planting
Dream ItAchieve It
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God Created the Earth
BES can Save the World
Morris Chiu is sitting on the Board and in charge of main operation in Kentfa Advanced Technology co. Ltd. Prior to joining Kentfa; Morris was the management committee member of an IP appraiser owned by Taiwan Valuation Group. He previously served as CFO and/or financial director of companies listed in TWSE including solar wafer, automation machinery and optical lens. More earlier Morris also worked about 10 years in financial sector and then joined KPMG corporate finance team as a managing consultant. Next, he was invited by the former Minister of Finance Chen-Kuo Lin to build up Taiwan Asset Management Company from the scratch. He swiftly became the leading expert in turnaround management and achieved success restructuring an optical storage company in 2007.
Morris received his bachelor degree from Taiwan University and MBA degree in National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan.
Speaker Biography
Morris Chiu
T: 886-936928980F: 886-7-3391228
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