Railroads face a complex set of economic and operational challenges like competitive freight pricing, asset utilization and competition with trucking, capital expenditure levels, industry consolidation and debt management. Technology applications from GAORFID can aid the rail industry to evolve business solutions in enhancing revenue growth while reducing cost through efficient operations, maintenance, asset utilization and capacity management.
The GAO RFID systems technology provides exact location and status of any individual objectives mentioned above, and predicts their dynamic changes from the system, particularly the change of rail-wagon throughput at the marshalling sites, interface between local railways, confine interface. This enables timely, accurate and integral information and decision assistance for the management of train transportation and the customer. The system contains the sub-systems of Confirmation, Freight Billing, Transportation Planning, Train Marshalling, Train Dispatching, Real-time Tracking of Train and Container, Prediction of Train Throughput and Revenue Run, etc. GAO RFID provides end-to-end Railroad / Transit application management services
APPLICATIONS
A GAO RFID Railway system is available in a number of configurations designed to economically meet a full range of service requirements. Reader systems provide automated tracking of railcars via RFID tags, and make railcar location information available to railroads for asset management and other purposes.
Traffic and Passenger Information: The system provides accurate and reliable information about where a train is located. This real-time information is forwarded to IT systems and used to update the passenger information displays at stations and terminals.
Operation and Maintenance: Precise information about the configuration of wagons within a train can be provided automatically by the system. This information can be integrated with other systems such as track inspection systems, so that the recorded information can be automatically matched to the actual wagon, thus eliminating errors.
Location of the Train: The System with the help of the reader determines the location of the train by reading the tag identity as the train passes over the tag at speed. This location data is transferred to the onboard system and can be used to update passenger information automatically
Controlling and Positioning of Trains: Some onboard systems require a precise position of the train, for example to control stopping positions. The reader accurately reports the position when the train passes over an ID-tag.
In combination with requirements new applications can be rapidly prototyped and deployed. In addition to the standard configuration, our team of experienced engineers can design systems to meet specific application requirements. Some of the customized applications developed to integrate with the system
Track Inspection System
Signal Asset Tracking System
Safety Audit
Inventory and Maintenance
Equipment Distribution and Management
Car Accounting Systems
Rail Yard Information Management
FEATURES/BENEFITS
The System stores tag data including time, date, train direction and speed.
It also responds to inquiries via modem and interfaces to scales, video systems and diagnostic and monitoring devices.
Timely data to increase capacity, speed, automation and operational flexibility
Arrival and departure data for signal and control operations
GAO Products for demanding RAIL RFID Applications
RFID technology developed a range of readers and ID-tags that fulfils the tough requirements of the rail industry. These products are used worldwide in railway applications which require identification and positioning at high speed, with high precision and in demanding environments.
GAO ID-tags
The ID-tags are mounted on the front, side, top or underneath each individual vehicle or on the sleepers in special tag fixings. The ID-tag is an extremely resistant, totally encapsulated and maintenance free. It has a predictable life of 6, 8 or 10 years, depending on model.
GAO Fixed Reader
Standard readers are suitable for Rail track-side installations. Readers can be installed at key locations such as stations, terminal entrances or maintenance locations. The reader identifies the ID-tag at a range of up to 6 meters and at passage speeds of up to 300km/h.
GAO Handheld Reader
The Handheld a 2.45 GHz RFID reader. The versatility of the industrial PDA together with the flexibility of RFID technology makes the Handheld reader an ideal supplement to stationary readers in applications such as train maintenance. The reader allows for quick and reliable on-the-spot identification and verification of objects such as wagons.
GAO Heavy Duty reader
Heavy Duty readers are ruggedized, designed to withstand environmental factors such as temperature, moisture, shock and vibration. This allows them to be mounted directly on the outside of vehicles. This reader can be used to provide positioning information for onboard systems on a train.
GAO RFID has a solution for the unique challenges of your rail or inter-modal operations. To learn more, please contact us at sales@gaorfid.com.
GAORFID Technology Solutions Team
http://www.articlesbase.com/technology-articles/rfid-for-railway-industry-96180.html
RFID Technology also enters in the world of Pharmaceutical, distributors, and hospitals to discourage drug counterfeiting, both for drugs intended for humans and animals. The report of The World Health Organization shows between 5 to 8 percent of global pharmaceuticals is counterfeit. In some countries, it is higher and between 25 to 40 percent. RFID can help in tracing, say, antibiotics supplied to poultry feed manufacturers as well as hospitals.
Counterfeiting has led to more demand for food without drug input. Some chicken feed for the hobby farm and backyard chicken ark market is now protected by RFID to ensure feed is pharma free.
In the fight against counterfeit drugs RFID have it’s own additional benefits. The pharmaceutical industry runs on the data information of throughout the process of drug trials, manufacturing, distribution and retail sale. RFID is known for it’s tremendous ability to uniquely identify each item and securely capture date without during whole supply chain. Pharmaceutical industry is blessed by RFID technology:
Supply Chain: RFID has ability to deep insight, visibility and efficiency during the supply chain. RFID present a good chance to provide 100 percent visibility of inventory, making it easier and quicker to handle goods transaction to the right place in the right channel. The technology improves productivity in shipping and receiving, reduce touch labor, increase the assurance of shipping and providing accuracy, and expanding product availability at the retail store, thus reducing customer complaints and charge backs.
Pharmaceutical responsibility and Brand Protection: Technology helps to reduce the responsibility at every point of supply chain, reduces the inventory losses. Every year 6-10 percent of retail inventory is stolen and diverted. Benefit of the new technology is presented when returns are properly shipped from right manufacturer, at proper price. RFID also helps to prevent “gray market” distribution, which costs companies and their customers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
Pharmaceutical Product: RFID provides Safety, Recalls, and Regulatory Requirements. RFID take care about the expiration dates and improving expiration management. The technology can store preliminary information that satisfying regulatory requirement. RFID reduce the time spent to identifying products targeted for recall and reducing the likelihood of a mass-market recall of branded products by zeroing individual items and capturing manufacturing data.
RFID technology improves the drug usage tracking during whole clinical-phase testing. Technology Improve the reliability and speed of the United States Food and Drug Administration to drug approval process by improved tracking and accountability. So the use of RFID is going to be standard for pharmaceutical companies.
RFID solution implemented for many more different fields:
Corporate Security
Fraud Prevention
Legal & Regulatory Affairs
Loss Prevention
RFID Technology
Security Operations
Supply Chain
Transportation & Distribution
RFID made data maintenance easier. Data capturing, managing, and reviewing data anywhere and anytime affect your business directly or indirectly. Dynamic maintenance of your huge data and any kind of asset provides you better flexibility.
Diana
http://www.articlesbase.com/technology-articles/rfid-pharmaceutical-services-71410.html
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From Sprinwise - a digest of new business ideas:
“When we wrote about RFID-enabled pokens last month, we noted that business professionals might prefer something slightly less cute than pandas on their keychains for exchanging digital contact details. As if on cue, Virginia-based Mingle360 recently launched the MingleStick, a small, sleek keychain device that serves as an electronic business card.
The MingleStick is a single-button device with an infrared sensor on one end and a capped USB connector on the other. When two users meet, they both point their MingleSticks at each other and click the button to create a successful connection, which is indicated by a small green light. At the end of the day, they can each plug their device into their computer; the Mingle360 website automatically launches and they can log into their account to view the connections they made that day. Address book, calendar, messaging, group organization and content sharing features are all available through the company’s MingleManager application, as are privacy controls that let the user decide how much information to share with each new acquaintance. Currently, the MingleStick is aimed at organizers of trade shows and other events. Service pricing includes a setup fee, security deposit and per-device rental fee that begins at USD 20 but is negotiable based on volume and other factors. Branding opportunities are also available.
The MingleStick has already been used at multiple trade shows, conventions and singles events, and provides yet another excellent example of the digital lifestyle lubricants that are increasingly blurring the lines between online and off. It’s also the first we’ve seen offered on a rental basis for events, sidestepping entirely the problem of achieving the critical mass that would otherwise be necessary to make the devices useful. One to try out, partner with or otherwise get involved in early….? “
Website: www.mingle360.com
Contact: connect@mingle360.com
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A photographic album, or photo album, even a digital electronic photo album, is a collection of a series of photographs, generally in a book, even if it’s a virtual one. Some albums have compartments which the images may be slipped in to; older style albums were simply books of heavy paper which photos could be glued to or attached to with adhesive corners, or pages.
Online photos can be uploaded and made into a coffee table style photo book. Different online services offer options such as photo editing, varied sizes, varied bleeds, layouts, cover design, colors, for digital electronic photo album etc.
Some services even enlarge the idea of a digital electronic photo album by allowing a photograph to become part of many photo albums, add comments and keywords to these photographs and use these keywords as the mean to create new digital electronic photo album. Some online photo albums provide services such as photo printing and options to upload pictures to your cellular phones.
There are many software programs available to organize images in folders or digital electronic photo album, such as Adobe Photoshop Album and Picasa. These programs generally allow for sorting and ordering of different images, tagging the images, and viewing them in slideshows or printing them. These programs commonly allow the user to perform basic edits such as cropping, red-eye removal, and some basic “one touch” enhancements for color and lighting.
Storing digital images in traditional photo-albums needs the growth on photo paper and placing it on the pages of an empty photo-album. With Photo-Books, a real book with your own images and texts can be created. The follow-on book is printed via digital color printers and bounded together, and looks exactly the same as the initial concept.
Professional printing and binding services offer free software for easy creation of photo-books with professional layouts and individual lay outing capabilities. Because of the integrated design and order of workflow, real hardcover bounded books with your own pictures and text can be produced very cost effectively.
Share your photos with friends and family, make different photo albums for all your special occasions, let your friends and family comment on your photos, and even allow people to rate your photos.
The user shall be able to specify a set of photos for inclusion into an album, and have the system automatically layout the album using a predefined template. Photo selection shall grow linearly with the number of photos.
James Dawson
http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/the-brand-new-digital-electronic-photo-album-is-now-free-just-for-you-123622.html
Imagine the hospital of the future where unnecessary expenses will be cut and more patient lives will be saved. Say goodbye to the inefficiencies of the old hospital and welcome the new, highly cost-effective system of asset and personnel tracking, patient care, and billing, the keystone of which will be radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.
GAO RFID envisions such a world, as we are a leading RFID solutions provider. The applications for the healthcare industry are several, asset tracking, patient tracking, staff location, baby monitoring, blood bank distribution, etc. Here we define two such applications:
Asset Tracking:
Healthcare facilities invest millions of dollars in upgrading and maintaining expensive equipment that aid the healthcare professional in the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients. It is incumbent on these professionals to maximize the use of such machines to maintain cost controls and yet meet the ever evolving and extremely dynamic needs of the patients. When the equipment needed is not readily available this leads to many undesirable outcomes:
(1) Staff are then sent scrambling through many corridors, sometimes over many floors to find the equipment they need,
(2) The Facility procures added machinery that taxes capital resources while existing assets remain under-utilized and
(3) The patients very well being could be at risk without the machine available at the time it is needed.
RFID technology solves all of the above by simply affixing an RFID tag to the equipment and strategically locating readers throughout the area of operations where the hardware is needed. In this way, as the device passes through a read point, it is registered in the applications software in real time to be in that area. In this way, staff will know what area of the facility each piece of equipment is located when they really need to have it. The results are less time wasted for healthcare professionals scrambling to find equipment, better utilization of existing assets that reduces capital expenditures and most importantly, a patient gets the best care available reducing the likelihood of liability because of poor health care services.
Patient Tracking Solutions:
Hospitals and Health Care facilities are more concerned these days about having the ability to accurately track their patients. Whether it’s dispensing medication or identifying the individual for procedures or pulling up a history of treatment on a patient; RFID technology is a way to manage the information much more efficiently.
An RFID system is used for accurately locating and tracking people, equipment and objects in a hospital. The system is designed to track hospital assets, curb excess expenditures, increase safety and ensure security and access control by placing small radio frequency identification devices, or ‘RFID tags’ on people and objects.
Hospitals and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are facing daily challenges especially when responding to disasters, such as severe weather conditions, toxic chemical spills and terrorism. They need to manage a large quantity of patients from the disaster area to nearby hospitals effectively and efficiently.
The responsibility for the safety of patients, who may be missing from hospital beds or emergency wards rests with the healthcare worker. RFID makes tracking patients easier giving care takers the ability for fast, accurate identification and verification.
Encoded RFID Bracelet data can be read through bed linens, so patients don’t have to be disturbed when sleeping. They can be used with fixed readers in doorways and corridors, to help staff keep track of ambulatory patients.
RFID Bracelet solutions can encode patient information in RFID tags to have better tracking performance especially when access to a remote database is not available.
RFID Bracelet solutions provide a convenient, one-step solution for patient IDs. Text or graphics are produced directly on the Bracelet. There is no need for handwritten or typed inserts, or stick-on labels, which saves time and eliminates a potential point of failure.
Newborn Baby Tracking Solutions
For the most part, the Maternity Ward is thankfully a great source for joy and celebration as new family members are welcomed into the world. The ward staff shares some of this joy by playing their part throughout the labor and the post-partum care of mother and newborn child. However anxiety levels rise for the patients, families and staff when there are complications during the labor and/or when the newborn needs neonatal care. In many of these instances the baby and the mother need to be separated, a scenario that creates anxiety. Anxiety can easily turn to anger and a possible law suit when there is a mother-baby mix up; the wrong baby being sent to the wrong mother for the crucial early bonding period, breast-feeding etc.
RFID technology will help both these difficult and challenging situations. At the time of admittance the mother is provided with a patient’s RFID tag that will start the process of tracking all procedures relevant to that labor. Once the child is born, an ankle tag is provided to the baby as well and immediately cross-referenced to the baby’s mother and the mother’s tag.
Family Access to Babies in Neonatal Care:
In the case of the newborn needing neonatal care, family members are almost as anxious as the new mother, to greet and bond with the new family member. When the newborn needs to be in an intensive care unit (ICU) this becomes very difficult due to the restricted access in the ICU. RFID solves this problem by making available to families the ability to view on a computer monitor outside of the ICU the key data about the baby, a photograph, the height, weight, skin color and temperature after keying in, for example, the mother’s family name and first name.
Mother-Baby Mix-ups Eliminated:
Even when the mix up is uncovered moments after the mistake is made, this can cause heightened levels of anger and dissatisfaction with the services rendered. Any mother-baby mix up is a potential liability to the hospital. This scenario can be guaranteed not to happen when staff follows a procedure of reading the baby’s tag and then reading the mother’s tag and re-confirming the match that was initiated at the birth.
GAORFID Solution:
GAO RFID can bring a turnkey RFID solution to your asset tracking and patient tracking challenges for any medical facility including the hardware, software and systems integration services. To learn more about how RFID technology can help solve your patient tracking needs, please contact us at sales@gaorfid.com.
GAORFID Technology Solutions Team
http://www.articlesbase.com/technology-articles/rfid-solutions-for-healthcare-industry-96183.html
A chicken ark RFID system for tagging poultry has recently been launched by Zigbee Systems, following a range of successful applications in a number of livestock industries.
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This is another demonstration of the flexibility of RFID and how ubiquitous it is becoming.
RFID Sniffer workshop in Amsterdam
A chance to nake an RFID sniffer and netwrk with like-minded people. Continuing the Zapped! workshop tradition, but in the Netherlands. There are still spaces at this workshop if you get a move on.
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I know some are the clocks on the microwave, DVD player, coffee maker, etc., but could some also be just electronics that you simply plug in and leave plugged in, even while not using, like a lamp? I just need someone to help me specify how i can tell vampire electronics to ordinary electronics.
Not so much lamps, but anything with a transformer on it. For instance a phone charger, will constantly convert AC to DC as long as it is plugged in, even if it is not charging a phone battery. Then anything that has lights, or clocks that stay lit continuously.
It is well known that the adoption of RFID is happening around the globe. But where are the success stories and in which market sectors? One industry that has realized the benefits of RFID technology for several years is the Livestock industry.
There are a host of challenges facing livestock farmers today. The livestock owners faces increased competition in global markets, disease control and better breeding practices to name just some of the issues. In the past, other technologies, such as bar coding were attempted to track livestock. There are, however, problems with bar codes, such as the time and labour to scan each bar code, and the bar codes were often dirty or damaged, making it difficult or impossible to read them.
RFID technology answers the needs for livestock owners who look to improve profitability and reduce risk in the herds they manage. RFID systems are being used as a means of identifying farm animals and collecting data far more quickly and efficiently than can be done by writing down numbers by hand or scanning a barcode on a plastic tag in an animal’s ear. Government agencies too, around the world, are in favor of RFID, because it enables them to link a unique identification number for each animal to a database that includes information specific to that animal, including date of birth, inoculations, sex and breeding specifics.
The GAO RFID Livestock Solution:
As a fast growing company, GAO RFID has been specializing in the livestock identification. A GAO RFID Tag (Readable/ Write-able) would dramatically improve the ability to track livestock with long range and high throughput capability and maintain accurate and up-to-date information. Being able to identify animals and link them to the herd they came from and every location they went to in the supply chain helps control the spread of diseases, such as BCE, bovine tuberculosis, hoof-and-mouth and other diseases. Several countries, including Canada, are moving forward with national ID plans that require RFID.
To learn more on how GAO RFID can help you manage your herd for greater profit and less risk; please contact us at sales@gaorfid.com.
GAORFID Technology Solutions Team
http://www.articlesbase.com/technology-articles/rfid-solutions-for-livestock-industry-96182.html
With RFID technology, commercial, government, and increasingly smaller private fleets can provide hands-free access to their maintenance depot. More recently companies are using the systems to collect, track, and report operations and maintenance data for all of their vehicles.
Benefits of using RFID Systems:
* Provides faster and more accurate vehicle check-in, re-fueling, weighing, maintenance, and check-out
* Tracks the location of cabs, trailers, and other fleet vehicles within the RFID-enabled parking lots, maintenance depot, and storage facilities
* Vehicle maintenance can be automatically recorded and tracked
* History of fleet inventory can be maintained
Increasingly attractive for vehicle hire operators, simple systems are now even being used for relatively small fleets of speciality vehicles such as VW campervans available for hire to track maintenance data.
