CSL CS101-2 EPC CLASS 1 GEN 2 RFID HANDHELD READER
USER'S MANUAL, VERSION 1.0
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12.9 Vehicle Tracking in Maintenance Depot
Use Case
In maintenance depot, vehicles arrive for maintenance and checking. If the activities of
vehicles inside the maintenance depot can be tracked, better arrangement of vehicles
maintenance can be achieved.
Current Approach
Vehicle maintenance is tracked manually. Human errors may occur such as omitting particular
maintenance checking on a vehicle.
Suggested Approach
RFID technology can be applied to track vehicles’ activities inside the depot. Once a vehicle is
tagged, it's movement can be recorded anywhere in the RFID enabled depot. The process is
completely automatic in the sense that the vehicle does not have to stop for being recorded.
Moreover, no staff is involved in the process and thus human errors can be eliminated. The
vehicles’ movement record gives accurate maintenance checking and repairing history which is
important for vehicle management such as identifying obsolete parts.
Recommendation
One of the challenges in tracking vehicles in maintenance depot is that high tag resolution is
required. Cross reading of tags by different entry points would affect the accuracy of
identifying the vehicles in the lane. This problem can be overcome by shielding the capture
points such that each capture point would only read tags that are corresponding to it.
Furthermore, the CSL CS-461 reader allows filtering of tags by both RF Signal Strength
Indicator (RSSI) and read count to prevent cross reading of tags by read points in multiple
lanes.
