TAM - Transport

In many areas of the upstream supply chain, the biggest benefits are in the complete automation of asset tracking. The reason for this can be that it is not so important to know the details about the individual asset, but rather knowing that the asset, or a collection of assets, have passed a certain check point without any human interaction.

In areas like e.g. container transport and tracking, where most of the handling is performed with heavy machinery like forklifts and cranes, it is cumbersome to introduce wireless asset tracking based on manual reading. From a logistic point of view, history and condition of each individual container is not of primary interest, while location and status are crutial to streamline transport and the supply chain. At the same time, it is important that the unique individual container (and assets inside) can be identified for picking, loading and unloading.

TAM - Transport is a solution that combines different RFID technologies (Active and passive) and exploid the strenghts from both technologies to achieve long distance presence identification, asset movements and close individual tracking. By mounting receivers at strategic places like e.g forklifts, entry gates and offshore cranes, asset transport can be tracked automatically and with high accuracy while unique identification of individuals among several identic assets will still be possible.