AVANTE Announces Real-Time Locating System Using Patent-Pending Weighed ZONING Technology.PRINCETON, N.J. -- The key for effective asset and supply chain management is having visibility as close to real-time as possible. Some of the real-time locating asset management applications have yielded return on investment in less than a year from reduced inventory and more efficient business operations. There are two basic mechanisms used to determine the positions of assets tagged with an active RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. . The first method is the traditional triangulation triangulation: see geodesy. The use of two known coordinates to determine the location of a third. Used by ship captains for centuries to navigate on the high seas, triangulation is employed in GPS receivers to pinpoint their current location on earth. time-lapsed method. This method uses the times of arrival of response signals from the responding tag to a set of readers to deduce the position of the asset. This method requires more costly tags and readers that have nanosecond (1) One billionth of a second. Used to measure the speed of logic and memory chips, a nanosecond can be visualized by converting it to distance. In one nanosecond, electricity travels approximately a foot in a wire. internal time clock accuracy. The second RTLS RTLS Real-Time Location System RTLS Return To Launch Site RTLS Run Time Library Services uses the "free space signal loss" or RSSI RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator RSSI Received Signal Strength Indication RSSI Russian Space Science Internet RSSI Railway Systems Suppliers, Inc. RSSI Received Signal Strength Intensity RSSI Required Supplemental Stewardship Information calibration technique. Both these traditional methods are not effective for locating assets in environments that do not allow direct signal paths between the tag and the reader. AVANTE has developed a patent-pending "ZONING" technology based on discrete power signals received by the readers in a grid. AVANTE ZONER(TM) active tags transmit at several discrete power levels. Each of the discrete signals carries both the ID of the tag as well as the ID of the signal strength. Physical location is deduced from power-distance ZONING using signals received by the RELAYER(TM) readers at different locations away from the tags. This innovative approach produces 1-3 meters locating capability for assets for both indoor and outdoor facilities. Besides being lower in costs using lower power, this "ZONING" reader network costs about 1/10 of the traditional RTLS. The ZONER(TM) tags can be polled as a group or response-on-demand to interrogation interrogation In criminal law, process of formally and systematically questioning a suspect in order to elicit incriminating responses. The process is largely outside the governance of law, though in the U.S. based on ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 18000-7 interface protocols. AVANTE patented RFID technology for article tracking for supply chain visibility and security ("Article Tracking System and Method", US 6,883,710). "This patent covers the innovation of gathering RFID tag data in different tracking stations that are distributed over wide areas. The data is shared between stations to users over the Internet and other communication means," said Dr. Kevin Chung, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AVANTE. ABOUT AVANTE AVANTE is located in Princeton, NJ (www.avantetech.com) and looking to collaborate with 3PL and system providers to secure and facilitate the global supply chain management. Please visit us 2005 MARINE SECURITY EXPO (Booth 768 www.marinesecurityexpo.com). |
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