Press Report

RFID delivers the barcode into the airwave and creates all kinds of options for effective transport monitoring

(Peter F. Mayer 02.2007) Already back in school we have hated those tasks beginning with "A train goes from A to B." Today, trains are not necessarily the only things about which we have to worry. However, the problems which we have to solve have become much more complex: How do I get my products in sound condition from one place to another? In view of the many possible weak spots which a logistics chain may have this is also not a rewarding task. However, radio chips (RFID) can already help you today to master this problem. In the future, hardly any company shall be able to do without RFID if the enterprise wants to provide transparency over and reliability for their logistics processes and merchandise management.

Thus, the solution "Shipment Localisation Kit", for example, which the company inet-logistics from Vorarlberg offers enables the complete transport monitoring by using RFID-technology in combination with complementary systems, in this case the tracking procedures GPS and GSM. As a consequence it is possible to record the precise location of every single package and even retrace it via the online-satellite-picture-service Google Earth with an accuracy of up to 400 metres.

Additionally it is also possible in this solution to equip the RFID-transponders with sensors. Status information, for example about temperature changes, gets recorded or transmitted even already during the transport for evaluation purposes. In the latter case the system sends an alert message in real time in the event of critical values in order to inform the logistics provider or the person who is in charge for the trouble shooting directly - and all of this happens before the cool chain might possibly collapse.