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Tracking Reusable Metal Shipping Containers Using Passive RFID

Overview The evaluation focused on tracking large steel shipping containers and their contents as part of a parts distribution system. This paper looks at two main problem areas; tracking the containers throughout their lifetime using a permanent durable hard-tag, and using a standard print, encode and apply RFID label as a shipping label. The scope of this paper is only on the performance of various tagging options required to meet the demands of the shipping label and container tag.

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Publisher	Paxar	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2007	Downloads	18
Format	White Papers
Topics	RFID

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