Tuesday, 21. August 2007
Topic: COMPUTER - on August 21, 2007 at 2:41:00 PM CEST
Real time location systems are the new buzz in RFID
A new acronym is being banded around the RFID world - that of RTLS. What is a real time location system (RTLS)?
The simplest definition I have come across is that it is a system of finding the position of assets using active RFID tags. The tags broadcast a signal, which is received by three reader antennas. The time each signal is received is passed on to a software system that uses triangulation to calculate the location of the asset.
At the beginning of August I had a briefing with Josh Slobin, director of marketing at AeroScout, one of the pioneers in RTLS.
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