China Boosts Border Crossing Efficiency and Security Using TransCore's eGo Products; Deployment Highlights International Scope of Border Crossing Issues.Business/Photo Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available 9th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 2002 TransCore announces that Shenzhen Customs in Shenzhen, China is using the company's eGo(TM) radio frequency identification See RFID. (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. ) products as part of a multimillion dollar automatic vehicle and driver detection and identification system. This intelligent border crossing application is expected to facilitate the flow of low-risk traffic and goods while assisting customs agents as they combat smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain between Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. and mainland China. Shenzhen, designated as a special economic zone in 1979, has become a major center for manufacturing and trade as well as a main conduit between China and the special administrative region A special administrative region may be:
"China is dedicated to providing a world-class border crossing system that will serve as a model within the country and to the international community," said Xu Ji-ren, director and general manager of Sichuan MCS Engineering Co., Ltd., the system installer and integrator of TransCore's RFID sensor equipment for this project. Shenzhen Customs will initially deploy 100,000 tags using TransCore's eGo technology, along with 80 UAP/915 readers for 80 traffic lanes. Long-term expansion plans for the whole of Guangdong Province Noun 1. Guangdong province - a province in southern China Guangdong, Kwangtung , where Shenzhen is located, will require additional equipment. How the System Works The Shenzhen Customs system assigns unique electronic identity numbers to both drivers and vehicles, encoded in tamper-resistant wireless communication windshield tags. One tag is permanently mounted on the windscreen and one tag is assigned to the driver. The driver inserts the "driver tag" in a hanger mounted on the windscreen when he or she is in the car. As the driver and vehicle approach the customs lane, both tags are read by the reader and a match is made. Using these lane-mounted readers to scan all vehicles automatically, the border system allows low-risk, compliant vehicles and drivers to be identified, screened and to pass quickly through the border check point and enables customs' personnel to rapidly screen out non-compliant, high-risk vehicles and drivers for further inspection. This application of TransCore's RFID technology solves two key problems facing busy border crossing zones worldwide: the need for the unhindered unhindered Adjective not prevented or obstructed: unhindered access Adverb without being prevented or obstructed: he was able to go about his work unhindered flow of traffic and goods while enhancing security. Background China has been a pioneer in the use of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) for vehicular traffic management and law enforcement applications. In 2000, Sichuan Provincial Public Security Bureau in Yibin City was the first to deploy TransCore's eGo tag technology for an electronic vehicle registration (EVR EVR Enhanced Vapor Recovery EVR Electronic Video Recording EVR Equine Viral Rhinopneumonitis EVR Extravehicular Robotics EVR Expanded Virtual Register EVR Exudative Vitreoretinopathy, Familial, Autosomal Dominant EVR Eläinten Vapautus Rintama ) system that allows authorities to automatically monitor vehicles for registration and inspection compliance, as well as for emissions, taxation and traffic record status. In addition, TransCore's eGo products are also in use throughout China such as in Beijing, Dalian, Tangshan, Shenyang, Tianjin, Nanjing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hunchun, Yibin City, Ziyang, Chongqing and Qingdao in similar AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. system applications. TransCore is at the forefront of global efforts to apply ITS technology to strengthen border crossing efficiency and security. In late August of this year, the company demonstrated the first-of-its-kind secure freight management system for the Washington State Department of Transportation The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), led by a Secretary and overseen by the Governor, is a Washington governmental agency that constructs, maintains, and regulates the use of the state's transportation infrastructure. , the Northwest International Trade Corridor & Smart Border Crossing Program. The system verifies the integrity of shipping containers entering the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. from Japan and monitors the movement of freight as it travels over the U.S. Interstate in commercial vehicles and passes between the United States and Canada. TransCore has ITS border crossing installations at Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario; Otay Mesa, Calif.; Peace Bridge in Buffalo, N.Y.; San Clemente, Calif.; San Ysidro, Calif.; and El Paso, Texas. About TransCore TransCore is a privately held transportation services company with 1,700 employees and more than 80 locations throughout the world. With installations in 39 countries, 80-plus patents and a world-class manufacturing facility, TransCore's expertise in providing system-based applications that improve transportation efficiency is unparalleled. For more information, visit www.transcore.com. Note to editors: Photos are available. Note: Photos are available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. 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