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“ETS technology is making the world smaller, safer and more effective by allowing people to monitor their assets, valuables or vehicles from anywhere in the world.”

Electronic Tracking System (ETS)

Indoor RFID Tracking

 

Passive RFID systems can be used over short-ranges where the objects to be tracked pass through a small number of known narrow points that can be automatically monitored – such as a pallet of goods passing through a door in a warehouse. Passive RFID systems are only capable of recording the movement of objects at those specific choke points and loose visibility outside of those points.

Active RFID provides superior performance where real-time tracking is required throughout a larger or more complex area, such as within a hospital, industrial or office building with many corridors, doors and rooms. Battery powered active tags have far greater signal range and the active readers are generally cheaper, thus making deployment more cost effective overall. An active RFID system is viable where the objects to be tracked are higher value, mission critical, have a consequential impact if not quickly located, or there is an additional security, regulatory or health and safety requirement for such information.

TagMobile is the brand name of the RFID Centre active real-time location and tracking system which incorporates both hardware and software in an integrated solution.   TagMobile is a highly configurable system that provides superior indoor positional accuracy to all other systems as it uses patented tri-technology allowing the intelligent tag to ascertain its location with 100% certainty. TagMobile will locate and record the movements of people and objects anywhere within its predefined reader network. It can govern those movements with a system of rules based on associated events and actions such as an asset passing into a particular zone within the building. The following diagram shows TagMobile system architecure within a hospital environment:

 

TagMobile is scalable from a standalone department system to a campus wide network and can be customized to meet user’s specific process requirements. TagMobile can be installed as a completely wireless system using WiFi or Ethernet TCP/IP or a combination of the two to send positional data back to the central system with the lowest implementation costs.  With appropriate password security authorised staff can then access the server to view the location of those assets or people from anywhere within the organisation.  

Tag Mobile gives customers the ability to manage the following:

  • People and Asset Visibility

  • Asset and Item Protection

  • Evacuation Management

  • Dwell Time or Time and Attendance

  • Area Detection

  • Access Control

  • Mobile Resource Optimisation

Organisations will achieve the following benefits

by using TagMobile:

  • Secure facilities

  • Protect personnel

  • Reduce asset loss

  • Locate assets/equipment

  • Optimise mobile resources

  • Increase workforce productivity

  • Compliance to process

  • Perform real-time stock

  • Improve estate utilisation

 

Item Locator System

 

Item Locator is a unique patented system for assisting staff to quickly locate items inside a large single building space such as a warehouse or factory, or over a wide open area such as a storage yard or a construction site.  Item Locator is particularly suited to instantly finding objects in difficult environments where there are many similar looking items in close proximity, or where the search area is large.  

Item Locator is scaleable and so may be used to tag anything from a handful up to thousands of items, which can each then be instantly located within a square kilometre area.  The system has been designed to focus solely on the items being sought at any one time and so is optimised to find between one to ten items in any single search.  The items in questions may be anything such as high value assets, components, plant, mobile equipment, pallets of goods or even people etc.  The items are tagged in advance and when sought the associated tag is woken up by a radio signal. The tag position is ascertained and the tag emits a loud beeping noise and flashing light so it will be quickly located by searching staff.a

The Item Locator System can be installed as the primary means of finding items or as a secondary back-up method if the formal systems fail. An example application is where key parts are required quickly for mission critical maintenance, but they are stored in brown cardboard boxes with hundreds of other similar boxes stacked on pallets across many warehouse racks.  The warehouse system in theory provides the formal location of where such an item ‘should be’, but if it has been put away incorrectly, moved or misplaced it could take hours or even days to find it through a manual search of all the racking.  By contrast the Item Locator system helps staff find the required items within minutes.   

Traditional RFID systems do not perform this task very well without a significant multiple reader implementation across the whole site which is expensive, inflexible and time consuming.  For large area coverage a traditional RFID system could take weeks of planning, configuration, implementation and tuning effort.  By contrast our Item Locator system is quick, easy and cheap to implement as it only requires one transmitter to be installed in the centre of the site or building which can cover a large area up to one kilometre square.  Our Item Locator system is the closest to ‘plug and go’ as is possible for an RFID system to be and can be installed and delivering value in under an hour.

“ETS technology is making the world smaller, safer and more effective by allowing people to monitor their assets, valuables or vehicles from anywhere in the world.”

Outdoor GPS Tracking

 

GPS is the technology of choice for outdoor tracking of vehicles, assets and staff over a wide geographic area.   Where an object needs to be tracked outdoors and also within buildings, then a combined RFID and GPS tagging system can be used as GPS alone does not provide indoor positioning.

RFID Centre can provide complete tracking systems including GPS personnel, asset or vehicle mount units and a unique flexible web based application software system called Universal Tracker.  Tracking information is made available to multiple end-users over the Internet from a dedicated password protected web server. The system provides control, visibility, security, safety and real-time management of remote resources such as assets, vehicles and staff.  

 

The Universal Tracker GPS software can be rapidly configured to represent the key information associated with any object class that your organisation wishes to track – so it can literally ‘track anything’ through one consolidated system. Most GPS tracking systems assume that only vehicles needs to be tracked and so have hard-coded only the handful of fields associated with vehicle information. By contrast our Universal Tracker system has been designed in such a flexible way that it allows customers to represent many different mobile object classes or resources such as plant, equipment, products, machinery, containers, consignments, vehicles, loan workers – so they may be all tracked and optimised.

The system adopts the customer’s naming conventions, icons and terminology for any object class such that it can be rapidly implemented and instantly understood by staff users.
An overview diagram showing how the system is used to track vehicles is shown below :

 

Universal Tracker System Features :

  • Overt or covert installation of vehicle or asset GPS units, plus small form factorpersonnel GPS units

  • Long battery life units with regular data reporting via the GSM/GPRS mobile phonenetwork back to the server

  • Geo-fencing - create multiple user defined boundaries and zones

  • Create custom rules associated with vehicles or objects passing into or out of thezone that may trigger further actions or messages

  • Issue alerts by SMS, systems messages or e-mail if rules or conditions are triggeredsuch as a zone boundary being crossed by a specific vehicle or object class

  • View object movements in real-time by configurable tables or through on-screenmapping with different icons for each object class

  • Real-time position reporting

  • Automatic arrival and departure notification with date/time stamp

  • Snail trails and journey reports

  • Supports combined GPS and RFID reporting – know where your vehicle is and whatload is inside

  • Route history log and reporting including downloads to MS Excel spreadsheets forfurther analysis

The MotorTag Electronic Permit System


MotorTag is a unique in-vehicle electronic tag that can be used for vehicle identity, security, access management and parking applications.  For example to allow entry into secure sites, to capture vehicle specific information, to manage parking areas, for on street permit parking and to instantly verify vehicle and driver details. The tag is attached to the inside of the vehicle windscreen and unlike paper based permits MotorTag cannot be copied and so provides greater security.

 

MotorTag is superior to other technologies in this space, as it does not require contact between tag and reader and it operates in the optimum distance of between one and ten metres to the reader. The system can be configured with both handheld and static readers, while it is designed to provide very accurate singularity of read – in other words, a specific vehicle can be uniquely identified amongst numerous other vehicles in the immediate vicinity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

System Overview
MotorTag provides a secure electronic parking management system, consisting of the following ele1ments:

    • A more convenient and secure electronic parking permit will replace any current paper permits, which is still easily attached to the inside of the vehicle windscreen.

    • Security staff or parking attendants carrying handheld readers will wirelessly interrogate the target vehicle tag, which will provide a unique permit number.

    • The permit number is relayed to a central database via the mobile phone GPRS data network if the parking area is remote or by WIFI wireless network if the parking is on-site.

    • The specific permit, vehicle and driver data is located within the database and the relevant information is sent back to the handheld device within seconds.

    • Permit, vehicle and driver information are displayed on the screen of the handheld reader, enabling the security or parking staff to instantly verify the permit, vehicle or driver.

   

Unique Features of MotorTag

  • MotorTag is an active electronic tag, displayed inside the vehicle windscreen,with a five year battery life

  • MotorTag can be read from one to ten meters

  • MotorTag can contain vehicle ID data or simply a unique number that triggersvehicle information retrieval from a secure back-end database

  • A lost or stolen MotorTag can be remotely deactivated

  • Permits can be read and verified in a 180° arc around the front and front-sideof the vehicle

  • The MotorTag signal is focussed using beam technology to enable singlevehicle identification

Examples of MotorTag Applications

Based on the flexibility of the MotorTag system, it could be used across various industry verticals in a host of different applications, including the following:

Low Complexity Applications

  • Electronic parking permits

  • Electronic vehicle identification

  • Cashless parking systems (Replacing Pay & Display)

  • Visitor parking permits

  • Corporate car park vehicle and driver authentication

Medium Complexity Applications

  • Users checking vehicles in and out when using corporate pool vehicles from a shared fleet

  • Logging the entry and exit of vehicles at a central depot such as busses and taxis going out to service or coming back at the end of shifts

  • Logging rental cars out to customers or logging them back into stock after the rental period and inspection

  • Automatically capturing vehicle details entering or exiting secured perimeters, such as military vehicles at a high security base

Advanced Complexity Applications

  • Granting vehicle access in barrier access control systems, such as lifting a boom or lowering a bollard

  • Managing the movement, location and responsibility of vehicles between a network of car dealerships

  • Logging the arrival of a specific vehicle at a facility and initiating a downstream activity such as having the vehicle maintained, washed, loaded or decanted.

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