2023-06-26 21:27:00
The garbage cans in the district of Heidenheim have been equipped with RFID transponders since 1996. This is a technology used to transmit data without contact using radio waves. The chips in the bins tell the recipient device in the garbage truck who owns the bin, so that the amount of rubbish can be posted to the correct account. Around 30,000 residual waste and organic bins in the district still have old chips that work at a frequency of four megahertz. These must be exchanged for new chips with a frequency of 134 kilohertz. “The manufacturer stops producing the old chips,” explained Dr. Sebastian Meier, head of the district waste management company, the waste management committee of the district. Since the readers are no longer manufactured either, the chips can no longer be read at some point, even if they still work.
Pilot test with own employees
In July, the district waste management company started a pilot project in Dettingen, in which three teams of their own staff exchanged the chips on the garbage cans on Thursdays. The affected households will be notified a week in advance. With the help of this pilot test, they want to find out how many tons are affected and whether the chips can be exchanged on site. If this doesn’t work, you have to replace the entire barrel, says Meier.
Norbert Bereska (CDU) asked whether the new chips are being purchased from the same company or from another. He found it annoying that an existing, functioning system was being abolished. According to Sebastian Meier, there is a second company that sells the relevant technology, but their chips have the problem that the RFID transponders would fall out of the bins. That’s why they decided to go with the same company that made the old 4 Mhz chips.
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