RFID Tracks Military Families' Household Goods

"The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has long been using RFID to tag and track shipments of materiel used by troops. Now, a new project is employing the technology to track the personal belongings of soldiers being moved to new posts overseas. Having performed successfully during a trial in August, the RFID network is continuing its operation as a live application, with plans to expand the network to other shipping channels. The system tracks personal belongings between two U.S. military bases for the DOD's Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) arm, which manages household goods transportation programs for military service members. Symbol Technologies' UHF EPC Gen 1 tags are being attached to individual boxes, some items and the plywood shipping crates—known as lift vans—used to transport belongings between Fort Lewis, Wash., and Grafenwohr, Germany." Source: rfidjournal.com