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Article: Company Utilizes Savi's RFID-Enabled Software
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- Sea Technology
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Compass Publications, Inc. Aug 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Savi Technology (Sunnyvale, California) and Mitsui & Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) have joined with an international exporter in an attempt to utilize active radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions to track the location and security of intermodal cargo shipments between countries. Financed by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and overseen by the Japan Federation of Freight Industries, a recently completed smart container field trial was the first government-sponsored program conducted in Japan utilizing active RFID to help monitor ocean container shipments.
Using Savi's Transportation security System software and a variety of Savi's battery-powered active RFID tags, the ...