Archive for the ‘RFID’ Category

In Fort Saskatchewan, RFID Goes Out on a Limb

Monday, May 16th, 2011

The Canadian city is using passive EPC tags to track the maintenance of its trees, playground equipment, garbage cans and parks. Apr. 28, 2011—when workers maintain trees and parks or empty public garbage cans in Fort Saskatchewan, a city of 18,000 residents in Alberta, Canada, they keep record of their daily activities via radio frequency… Read more >>

Hong Kong’s Airport to Tag Bags

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

This year, one of the world’s busiest airports is deploying 120 RFID readers and buying 1.5 million smart labels to track luggage. Hong Kong International Airport is deploying the largest RFID network undertaken so far in Asia and has awarded the contract for RFID equipment for tagging and tracking baggage to Matrics. The project, set… Read more >>

County tracks waste pickup using RFID

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Government waste management agencies have deployed RFID technology to keep track their vehicles, services and amount of waste collected. Private waste collection agencies have been doing this since a few years and municipal agencies are not following suit. Monroe County, Miss., is employing an RFID-based system to track its garbage trucks, document the waste carts… Read more >>