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Texas Instruments Case Study: Protecting Valuable Products During Distribution
Overview A bonded warehouse in the UK stores expensive single malt whiskies, which are subject to theft even by the warehouse employees. Pallets carrying these stocks are also subject to being misplaced in error, thus delaying ontime deliveries. To prevent these problems, it was necessary to ensure that forklift trucks moving pallets would pass correctly along pre-set routes. Deviations might mean that employees were taking product off to a hiding location intentionally for later theft, or were just misplacing stock in error. To create this security system, the company built a grid of transponders suspended from the ceiling. The forklift trucks are equipped with RFID readers. Routing details are downloaded to the forklift truck from a central computer via a radio frequency communication link.
| Publisher | Texas Instruments | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | June 2004 | Downloads | 1 |
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