Tracient Technologies’ Handheld HF Readers Used to Monitor Task Completion Times in Glasshouses

d'Vineripe Pty Ltd abound glasshouse tomatoes in South Australia. A key achievement indicator for d'Vineripe is how continued workers crop to complete tasks so the aggregation needs to accurately analyze anniversary worker, the row/area they are alive on and what assignment they are performing.

d'Vineripe has affianced Australian systems integrator FieldAtWork to accommodate an RFID band-aid in which workers and amazon rows are allocated HF RFID tags with a different ID number. Tags are aswell assigned for anniversary of the 8 tasks and placed on boards abutting anniversary row. At the alpha of the day, the end of anniversary assignment and the end of anniversary day the workers use Tracient’s Padl-R HF clairvoyant to apprehend their own tag, the row tag and the adapted assignment tag. The reads are accumulation logged and downloaded assimilate a PC at canicule end. The advice is analysed aural FieldAtWork’s ServiceAtWork software to actualize time area advice which is alien into an Excel spreadsheet for analysis.

Anthony Evans, Financial Controller at d’vineripe says the aggregation has been able to analyze processes that are inefficient and crop adapted action. “As our aggregation was a alpha up we accept now been able to analyze and archetype our accepted operational activities aural the glasshouse, added amount bigger against added solutions accessible aural the marketplace” he says.

Anthony believes administration of d'Vineripe’s workforce has now become added quantitative in its measures back installing the RFID solution. “We are now able to analyze workers who accept been underperforming and crop the all-important action to ensure they complete their tasks in the appropriate time frames. We intend application this abstracts to advance training programs to access abundance above the workforce. This arrangement agency we can be added targeted in our training programs.” he says.

“We just charge an RFID clairvoyant to log tag reads that we can download at the end of the day. The Padl-R HF clairvoyant has accurate ideal for this business case.” says Colin Rosen, CEO FieldAtWork. “At aboriginal I wondered how the Padl-R HFs would handle the glasshouse ambiance with it’s heat, clamminess and dirt, but the 24 readers accept performed able-bodied over 18 months after problems.”