Tracient Technologies’ Handheld RFID Readers Used For Recycling Bin Distribution

Australian councils are starting to authorization their recycling contractors tag anniversary bin with an RFID tag so that every bin can be recorded as it is emptied. That way the architect can accommodate the Council with an analysis aisle and allegation alone for those bins that accept been emptied. To accredit this the bin’s consecutive amount and abode charge to be accurately commutual with it’s different RFID tag at the time the bin is delivered.

Mastec is a arch Australian architect of accepted debris bins, recycle bins & blooming decay bins. The aggregation aswell has bin accumulating affairs with councils above Australia. Datanet, a South Australian based solutions provider, has developed a bin identification band-aid for Mastec whereby every bin is apprehend by a Tracient Padl-R HF RFID clairvoyant as the bin is delivered to the residential address. The tag ID is beatific via Bluetooth to a Motorola MC70 Handheld Terminal which has the Datanet bin identification band-aid active on it. The advice is again beatific aback to Mastec’s axial database via a Telstra NextG Data Connection area it is akin up with the bin’s consecutive amount and address.

Travis Thomas, the Datanet Account Manager in allegation of the Mastec activity says “Mastec asked us to advance a band-aid that utilises their absolute handheld computers, Motorola MC70s. These accessories accept the barcode browse capability, Bluetooth and GPRS but not RFID so we bare a cheap, simple to use RFID clairvoyant that we could affix to the MC70s via Bluetooth. Tracient’s Padl-R HF readers accept accepted ideal."

Another claiming for Datanet was selecting a clairvoyant that could be acclimated calmly by the debris contractors, workers not about accepted for their abstruse adeptness or affliction of abstruse equipment. “You will be harder apprenticed to acquisition a beneath techno adeptness blazon than the debris man and they are application the Padl-R HF readers no problem” says Neil Clarke, Datanet’s CEO.

Sixteen readers accept been in use by the contractors for 6 months now after any problem.

Neil Edmond, Tracient’s Sales and Marketing Manager already has several affairs in North America analytic to use the Padl-R readers for the aforementioned purpose. “Curbside recycling is a hot affair appropriate now. We apprehend added absorption in our readers for this purpose in New Zealand, Australia and the United States in particular” he says.