Airport Guiding System

The pointer is a full Guiding system based on an RFID and LED technology. The system contains 2 main parts: one is the Boarding pass and the second is this platform on the floor. These platforms are spread through out the airport, especially in strategic places like lifts and intersections.

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Golf Case Study of RFId

TopGolf is a premier golf entertainment complex that offers a leisure experience like no other. By revolutionizing the traditional sport of golf, TopGolf has created innovative games that incorporate concepts from golf, darts, and bowling. TopGolf was founded in the year 2000 in London, England and expanded to the United States in 2005. At TopGolf, the fairway is made up of close, mid and long-range target greens. Each player gets 20 golf balls and earns points by hitting the balls in the target green with higher points for getting closer to the pin. The player with the most points at the end of 20 balls wins. TopGolf offers different games which have varied scoring based on target and style of game.

Challenge The founders of TopGolf wanted to turn the conventional driving range or traditional golf game into an experience that was more interesting, fun, and accessible for all types of players. To do that, they sought a way to create an authentic golf game that also measured distance and kept score, and with those ideas in mind, TopGolf turned to RFID to help craft this unique experience. One of the exciting features of TopGolf’s innovative games is that a player’s score for each shot can vary based on past shots. For example, by hitting targets consecutively players can double their score, or lose points, depending on the game they’re playing. Thus, the technology TopGolf chose needed to be sophisticated enough to remember all the targets hit by each player. And with one complex boasting capacity for over 550 people, keeping track of every player’s 20 shots is no easy feat. At full capacity, the RFID system must manage over 10,000 ball reads per hour. Another enhancement to the TopGolf game is the automated scoring, which contributes to the simplicity of the experience. To deliver this capability, TopGolf needed a scoring system that would not fail. Impinj’s RFID hardware and Rush Tracking System’s solution at the TopGolf location in Allen, TX provided the reliable scoring TopGolf needed to keep their customers coming back. How It Works At the TopGolf in Allen, Rush Tracking Systems worked with Callaway Golf to integrate an RFID tag, containing an Impinj Monza® RFID tag chip, into each ball. Tags were designed and tested to withstand the rigors of the TopGolf game and a minimum of 600 hits. At the tee, balls are dispensed when active players wave their golf club in front of a motion sensor. The RFID tag is read, and the ball gets associated with the player and activated for play. Then players hit the ball towards the target greens, and, if contact with a target green is made, the RFID system reads the ball and players receive the appropriate score and distance. The target greens are holes in the ground that, much like a dart board, are divided into sub-targets that make up different scoring zones, with each sub-target containing an RFID reader antenna. Each sub-target is delineated by a net that filters the balls to the correct RFID read point and determines the appropriate score. About 50 Impinj Speedway® Revolution 4-port readers power approximately 600-700 read points throughout the complex, at the tees and throughout targets. Readers are housed in National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) enclosures to insulate them from the extremes of Texas weather. The readers control up to 24 antennas at a time with 8-port multiplexers, which connect to the input/output ports of the Revolution readers. Rush Tracking Systems developed an on-reader software application to control the Speedway Revolution readers and multiplexers, and communicate scoring back to the host. Infonaligy provided the software for the system. Benefits RFID technology has helped TopGolf to radically transform the traditional golf game or solo driving range experience into an exciting, interactive competition amongst friends and family. The RFID-enabled automated scoring makes TopGolf’s games easy to play and allows for simple switching between different games. With RFID’s ability to measure and score shots, TopGolf crafts unique games for players of all skill levels. And while the TopGolf experience is great for novices, experienced golfers benefit as well because the system can precisely measure distance and aim of each shot. Finally, the Impinj UHF RFID technology offers read ranges that allow for less maintenance of the targets, greater read reliability, and faster scoring feedback to customers.

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Fashion Chain Launches With RFID - Brazilian Case

At its debut store, Memove is using its garments' sewn-in EPC Gen 2 tags to increase efficiency at its DC and store, as well as improve its customers' experiences. Oct. 28, 2011 Three weeks after launching an item-level RFID system at its first Memove store, as well as at a distribution center, Valdac Global Brands reports that the technology has enabled its DC to reduce the time previously required for its staff to perform inventory counts, from several days down to mere hours. At the store, located in the Shopping Tamboré shopping center, in São Paulo, Brazil, the benefits of deploying radio frequency identification have yet to be measured, the company reports. However, the RFID solution is intended to not only help the firm ensure that products are on the sales floor, but also enable customers to purchase items without seeking help from a sales clerk. The technology also acts as an electronic article surveillance (EAS) system, sounding an alert in the event that an item leaves the store without being purchased. The system was designed and installed by Brazilian RFID company RFSense, which developed the middleware that forwards RFID data to Linx Systems software residing on Memove's back-end server. Impinj RFID readers were provided by Synergy, a Brazilian systems integrator that sells a range of RFID products, solutions and services. Standards organization GS1 Brazil acted as advisor on the project.

A label with an EPC Gen 2 RFID inlay is sewn into each garment at the factory. Valdac Global Brands plans to open stores dedicated to its new fashion brand throughout Brazil. Memove targets fashion-conscious consumers between ages and 18 and 25, with the intention of being cutting-edge in its use of technology. For that reason, the first Memove store has mounted screens on which customers can watch music videos or sports games, and also provides Apple iPads for browsing the Internet. In addition, the company wanted to make it possible for customers to easily pay for purchases, without needing to queue up at a counter to wait for a sales associate. The RFID solution makes it possible to purchase apparel quickly, while also ensuring that non-purchased goods are not removed from the premises. With the "Source to Floor" solution that RFSense provided, Memove can track each of the store's approximately 40,000 products, from the point of manufacture through the DC, to the store, onto the shelf and finally at the point of sale (POS), according to Nikhil Deulkar, Impinj's senior product line manager. The company began fleshing out its RFID plans in January 2010 (see Brazil's Valdac Turns to RFID for Style and Savings), and the system went live on Oct. 7, 2011, at the Memove store and the DC that serves it. Memove's apparel manufacturers in Brazil, China and other countries are sewing an EPC Gen 2 passive RFID label into each item. The labels, developed by Haco Etiquetas, incorporate Valid RFID inlays made with Impinj's Monza 5 chips. Each label's RFID tag is encoded with an Electronic Product Code (EPC) consisting of a Serialised Global Trade Item Number (SGTIN) linked to the product's stock-keeping unit (SKU), and is read as the label is sewn into the garment, in order to verify that it is operating properly. Memove is expected to employ 5 million tags next year, Impinj reports. When the apparel is received at the distribution center, each garment's RFID label is interrogated by one of the DC's two Impinj Speedway xPortal readers. RFSense also provided the DC with a conveyor belt fitted with an Impinj Speedway Revolution R420 reader. The RFID tags are read at three separate points: when the products are received, as they are placed in storage and when they are shipped out. In this way, Memove knows which goods are on hand at the distribution center, as well as when they are en route to the store. By Claire Swedberg.

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RFID-based patient-management solution

RFID-based patient-management solution Pennsylvania's Monongahela Valley Hospital (MVH) has integrated its RFID-based patient-management system and its Emergency Department Management (EDM) software in order to make the treatment of patients more efficient, by putting more data in the hands of staff members, without requiring them to enter information into separate software systems. The integration of the two systems enables employees, using a single software setup, to learn about not just the areas through which patients passed, and when, but also their symptoms and diagnoses, and any laboratory or diagnostic testing results.

MVH is a 226-bed, full-service facility with a 220-member medical staff, representing more than 40 specialties. The hospital installed a real-time location system (RTLS) hardware from Awarepoint in 2005, to provide more automated patient location and status monitoring using RFID badges worn by workers and patients. The facility also implemented Awarepoint's AwareEDTracker software, for storing data regarding the locations of patients and staff members, as well as anyone with whom they may have met—for example, which specific patient was in contact with a particular health-care provider—and for how long. AwareEDTracker helps the hospital record its patient flow, identify any bottlenecks and assist the staff in determining, in real time, where emergency patients are located—for instance, waiting in an examining room, or undergoing diagnostic testing in a lab. With the RTLS solution in place, when an emergency department patient checks into the facility, the hospital assigns that individual a 2.4 GHz active AwarepointRFID tag. The tag is clipped onto the patient's clothing, and it transmits its ID number, via the ZigBee protocol, to readers plugged into power outlets throughout the building. Thereaders, also known as access points, receive data from other nearby access points, until the information is received by a gateway wired to a computer that links the location data and tag ID numbers in the Awarepoint software. The software can then determine the person's location with bed-level accuracy, the company reports. Over the past few years, the hospital had also begun utilizing Meditech's health-information software, enabling employees to input clinical data from each department that the patient visits. By Claire Swedberg.

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