Arnold Clark Automotive, a U.K,-based automotive dealer with 145 dealerships that sells over 200,000 vehicles per year, is leveraging active RFID to enhance revenue and improve inventory and operational management at its flagship in Stafford. The Stafford dealership maintains an inventory of 1,000 automobiles over a 12 acre area and using an active RTLS, employees [...]
BMW has installed a real-time locating system at its assembly plant in Regensburg to reduce labor associated with bar code scanning and to reduce production mistakes. The Tool Assistance System requires each vehicle assembly to be fitted with an ultra-wide band (UWB) tag. As the vehicle assembly platform moves down the production line, exact 3D [...]
University Hospital, part of the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University, has implemented an RTLS solution for multiple applications. The 366 bed facility is tracking traditional equipment such as IV infusion pumps, wheel chairs and beds in an effort to improve asset utilization. In addition, the hospital implemented RTLS for key assets [...]
The State of Florida’s “95 Express” project will use RFID to establish toll collection in a variable pricing model intended to control traffic congestion. The I-95 corridor between Fort Lauderdale and Miami has become increasing congested with over 290,000 vehicles per day. According to the Florida department of transportation, it is cost prohibitive to expand [...]
Ditan Hospital in Beijing, China, which specializes in infectious diseases, will use an active, Wi-Fi based RTLS solution to monitor people, processes and equipment. Each patient and staff member is supplied with a two-way communication tag, which allows location monitoring and call features for emergency. Further transports that move and transfer medical waste can be [...]
ThermoKing, a producer of temperature control systems for transportation infrastructure, including trucks bodies, ship and air containers, and rail cars has implemented a wireless parts replenishment system. The system leverages active tags placed next to parts containers for parts reordering. Each tag has a push button call feature that signals the materials management systems that [...]
The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are leveraging active RFID to automate the collection of clean truck fees to generate just under $1M each day, depending on cargo volumes. The Clean Trucks Initiative is part of the ports’ Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP), which calls for a 45% decline of “harmful pollutants” by [...]
The British reality show 2009 Celebrity Big Brother will use active RFID track the movements of housemates to augment the existing 24 hour camera coverage. The system is designed to monitor individual locations, and with whom those individuals are associating, providing a tool for program psychologists to assess behavior. It also enables the show to [...]
The U.S. DoD announced the RFID III contract has been awarded to Savi Technology, Systems & Process Engineering Corporation (SPEC), Northrop Grumman Information Technology and Unisys. The awards allow each of the providers to compete for future active RFID needs. The Army established the $428M indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, which includes hardware, software and services. The [...]
St. Joseph’s Health Center a 431 bed hospital in Syracuse, NY has installed active tags inside refrigerators and freezers to monitor temperatures for items that need to be maintained with certain temperature bands, including blood, vaccines, tissue samples, pharmaceuticals, and organs. The active tag provides more continuous monitoring and allows alerts to be sent wirelessly [...]