RFID-SYSTEM OF IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE TRAFFIC FROM PEPPERL+FUCHS. RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION

How to automate vehicle traffic control, encluding human factor?

Every place, where it is necessary to track the vehicle traffic, to control the access to the facility or to evaluate the efficiency of the vehicle use, there is an acute problem of the human factor influence, which gets one of the main problems in the process of automation, as it leads to the errors, delays and failures. It results in losses.

This is a problem for many businesses, warehouses, freight terminals, transportation companies, their major target is the efficient management of vehicles and freight traffic.

It can be solved by instructing employees, optimizing traffic within the territory by maintaining documentation of various complexity. Unfortunately, all this does not solve the problem radically, and only slightly reduces it. How can it be solved, if it is necessary to control the arrival time of the vehicles, for example, to instantly change the transport access to the specific area? How to ensure smooth entry and exit of the vehicles from the enterprise, minimizing the time spent at the checkpoint at the same time? What shall be done, if it is necessary to automatically record the vehicle traffic at different points of route?

To solve these problems, CSC-AUTOMATION offers Pepperl+Fuchs RFID-system for identification and control of vehicle traffic.

RFID technology stands for Radio Frequency Identification and allows to use radio waves to automatically identify objects of different types. It’s a wireless, contactless technology that transmits information from the mark (tag) to the read/write head. Tags serve as a data storage unit. They provide information on products, goods, or even people and ensure connection between the data and material flows. Identification systems are used in logistics for identification of objects and are the first step to optimize costs and to improve quality through the automation of the production processes, production cycle time reduction, quality control and flexibility in project planning and production.

CSC-AUTOMATION and Pepperl+Fuchs offer a wide range of products to ensure your successful work. Global presence of Pepperl+Fuchs, flexible production capacities, and due superior service allow us to provide customized solutions for the reliable operation.

With RFID system it is possible:

● to record events, such as arrival and departure time;

● to track vehicle traffic within the facility or at all points of the route;

● to control the vehicle access to the territory, or to a certain area (for example, only for VIP cars, for special vehicles);

● to get useful statistics about the work of the vehicle for a certain time interval (the average downtime to repair, time spent in the parking lot, number of loading/unloading operations per day/month/year, frequency of the vehicle washing, etc.), in order to optimize business processes;

● to respond to the events specified in the system, for example, in case of failure to follow the given conditions, to send a notice or to start video surveillance;

● to display vehicle traffic directions in graphical or tabular form. Display of the vehicle list in particular reading area;

● to search for the vehicle within the enterprise or on the given route.

● to accelerate processing of arriving vehicles, as well as to control the traffic of trucks based on the itinerary sheets.

Basic benefits of RFID technology from Pepperl+Fuchs consist in the following:

● no need in a contact or line of sight to read data; the data can be read through the mud, paint, steam, water, plastic, wood and so on;

● high speed and accuracy of reading of large volumes of data with the ability to edit, delete and add information;

● passive transponders (without self-contained power supply) have almost unrestricted service life;

● RFID tags have a lot of information and can be intelligent (for example, they can report to the certain readers different parts of the recorded data);

● the information recorded in the RFID tag can be encrypted and inaccessible to unauthorized readers;

● RFID tags are reliably protected from the external influences;

● tag location may be free with respect to the reader.