Taiwan-based RFID (radio frequency identification) solutions specialist GIGA-TMS has newly released its Scannel-branded RFID tunnel system designed mainly to track pre-shipment production progress at manufacturing plants.
Along with the rapid development of e-commerce and logistics, diverse logistics tracking systems and apps are proliferating to help suppliers and end consumers monitor shipment volume, inventory and shipment arrival time.
Brain Ma, Scannel's lead project manager, said that most RFID solutions are applied to logistics and retail aspects, but his company's RFID tunnel system is used to detect pre-shipment operations at manufacturers.
The system features tunnel-type UHF (ultrahigh frequency) RFID readers and RFID tags, allowing backstage monitoring center to immediately learn which employee cutting which bundle of fabric at which machine, and to track and confirm the volume of any given product from multiple ones ready for shipment, according to Ma.
With a reading accuracy of up to 99.585%, Ma disclosed, the system has been well received among overseas garment makers, especially those of high-price sports jerseys.
Ma said that UHF RFID can read tags from anywhere between 1cm and 10-15 meters, much longer than the 1.5 meters allowed by low-frequency (LF) and high-frequency (HF) RFID.
In the US, all the Wal-Mart supply chain partners are putting UHF RFID on their products, Ma indicated, adding that GIGA-TMS has used UHF RFID to create the world's first and only solution for tracking citizens taking public shuttle buses.
