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Fujitsu Software Develops GPS RFID Tags
Dec 27th, 2006
by
Darren Murph While
we've got both GPS receivers and RFID tags handling very important duties around the world, Fujitsu has gone and unveiled
a GPS unit with built-in RFID capabilities to provide the best of both worlds. The Tag Locator V2 sports the locating abilities
we've come to know and love, promising accurate longitude / latitude measurements between "three and five meters,
and bundles in an active RFID tag that operates on the 429MHz frequency band. Once the GPS receiver beams out the location
data, the device then communicates the RFID information via "a unique ID," and can purportedly channel its data
to any reader within 200 meters. Designed primarily to provide constant streams of precise data in airports, garages, and
other locales that manage a plethora of equipment / vehicles (or lucrative PS3 boxes), the units should hit shipyards soon
at ¥20,000 ($169) a pop. The GPS component of the tag first detects its location with the
accuracy of 3-5m and then sends out the location data along with its unique ID to an RFID reader. It uses the 429MHz frequency
band and the communication range is about 200m. Designed primarily to provide constant streams of precise data in airports,
garages, and other locales that manage a huge number of equipment / vehicles; these tags could be used to track cars in a
large car dealer shop, etc. To know more about Fujitsu ‘Tag Locator V2’, click
here (in Japanese).
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