Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology "won the first prize in the
2015 College IOT and RFID Project Competition

Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology attend the 2015 College IOT and RFID Project Competition organized by GS1 Taiwan to compete withother 16 local teams from 13 colleges/universitiesand 6 teams from 2 colleges in Mainland China s. The competition was unprecedentedly fierce. As a result, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, with its "Application of RFID Technology to Golf Security Mechanism," won first prize and the prize money $30,000 NT.

【Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, with its "Application of RFID Technology to Golf Security Mechanism," won first prize and the prize money $30,000 NT in the 2015 College IOT and RFID Project Competition.】

To promote the application of IOT and RFID,GS1 Taiwan organized theCollege IOT and RFID Project Competitionfor the 6th consecutive year.The finalists included 7 teams in the fiercecompetition. Recently it held the finals and award ceremony in Taipei Caesar Hotel, where the finalists brought the actual show and competed with vivid presentations before 6 teachers and experts from academic institutions and related industries.

Professor Choa-Tang Yu from the Department of Electronics, STUST, led his team of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to propose a golf course hitting safety mechanism, trying to solve the problem resulting in people being frightened or accidentally hit in a golf course duet to environmental constraints or human error.Their work is very practical and has commercialized value. When such a mechanism is built in a golf course,a group of players can avoid mistakenly hit those in the preceding group; this can significantly enhance the security of a gold course, so that the public can have fun and play safely on the course.