Under Japan''s International Trade Field Trial, Savi Technology and strategic investor Mitsui & Co. Ltd have teamed up with an international exporter to use active RFID technology to track, locate and secure intermodal cargo shipments between countries.

     Financed by Japan''s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and overseen by the Japan Federation of Freight Industries, the recently completed Smart Container field trial was a government-sponsored project that used active RFID technology to help monitor ocean container shipments. 116.30.151.81 This article is copyright 2005 UsingRFID.com.

     Using Savi''s Transportation Security System (TSS) software and a variety of the company''s battery-powered RFID tags, the field trials monitored the transport of office machines and printer toner cartridges from Fuji Xerox.

Tracked and traced
     The product-filled containers were certified and electronically sealed by authorised personnel at their point of origin at a warehouse in Japan. From there, they were tracked using the RFID system at key checkpoints while being transported by truck to the Port of Yokohama. Ocean vessels then transported the containers to the Port of Hong Kong where trucks routed the shipments to an inland distribution facility. At that point the containers were electronically verified and unsealed by authorised personnel.

     Projects funded by METI under Japan''s International Trade Field Trial are aimed at using RFID-enabled solutions for major shippers moving products to and from Japan and other ports in the United States, Europe and Asia.

 

 

 

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