The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced that it will support having RFID technology implemented to tag and track “baggage-loaders, fueling trucks, and other maintenance vehicles.”
This announcement came after it conducted a trial at the Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. Four million dollars has been allotted to fund this trial project that is being completed at Newark. However, the trial project there only uses RFID to track 80 vehicles, while a concurrent project at JAXPORT in Florida is using RFID to track baggage.
The vehicles in Newark are being monitored by equipment provided by I.D. Systems. I.D. Systems’ gateways were joined to nodes on a network located around the airport. Based on this, someone driving a vehicle could be tracked when the RFID Vehicle Assisted Communicator, linked to a GPS unit, transmitted a 900 MHz signal to the gateway.
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