Contemporary container tracking solutions are not only very cost-effective, but also good for increasing ROI for fleets. Utilizing the Internet powered mediums that include electronic file transfer, Radio-frequency identification (RFID) and Bar Code, container tracking system in India has witnessed a sea change in the past 10 years. These new-age solutions are playing a great role in controlling, recovering and securing containers right from the start to finish of their life cycle.
Unlike GPS based location application, the tracking solutions that make use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tell not only about the container's exact location, but also the whole archived history right from the moment the vessel was acquired for transportation.
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) utilizes high power electromagnetic fields to very efficiently identify and track tags attached to the particular objects. The passive tags in the system collect power from a nearby RFID reader's interrogating radio waves whereas the active ones have a local power source.
A proficient container tracking system very efficiently carries out better regulatory compliance and both internal and external auditing and global trade needs while driving up cost-effectiveness of the fleet.
Some of the most significant advantages one can have from a fully automated container tracking framework are strong focus on quick reporting or event-triggered exceptions.
The system addresses almost all the problematic areas of the fleet’s overall performance including excessive dwell or transit times, grounded containers, or any kind of high damage.
Another salient benefit of this system lies in its high performance capability of ranking customers’ and suppliers’ locations in the order of "first to worst", in terms of the container fleet performance in totality.
Advantages of Radio-frequency identification (RFID)
Just contrary to barcodes, RFID tags are capable of storing huge amount of data. Moreover, the tags follow instructions and commands of the reader as well.
RFID tags can be utilized to track consignments and all the recent records of the performance of the containers.
RFID technology is versatile in nature, and as a result, both small and large RFID devices are into play now exactly as per the applications.
Tags can be both read-only as well as read/write unlike barcodes.
An RFID system has ability to scan different items at a time.
The system permits one to very minutely scrutinize all contents at once without any need to run individual barcode scans on every item.
Non-RFID solutions generally come with a single or limited capacity identifier for different objects, but RFID tags have more capacity for information storage.