Last week at RFID Europe my good friend Giovanni Grieco from CAENRFID http://www.caenrfid.it/ showed me his new temperature logger which is based on passive ISO 18000 6c technology. This is a really clever concept where you programme the tag prior to use and set the temperature parameters. The tag is then placed in the shipment and despatched through a coldchain network. The temperature can be read as the tag passes through an RFID gate or you can simply press a button on the tag and you get a red or green light to show whether the preset temperature has been exceeded or not.
I was chairing the RFID session at Post Expo in Copenhagen yesterday where we had a really enthusiatic audience of about 40. I had one of the CAEN tags and used it to illustrate some points during the Q&A
The postal world now has an extensive passive RFID reader network deployed. If we can persude the network operators to make some small changes we could create a temperature aware network - and be able to attract a different type cof business.
I would love to hear of any use case results from companies using Giovanni's new tags
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