Tagging the Trains

Logistics Insight Asia - Technology & Market Trends, 8/10/2008

TagMaster’s S1470 CableTag is the latest addition to the Swedish company’s heavy-duty family of RFID Tags. The new tag is designed to suite a range of applications within metro, light-rail and mainline transportation systems.

The CableTag provides demanding transportation applications with a reliable means of transferring variable data from one system to another, using TagMaster’s RFID technology. Developed specifically for use in the railway industry, the CableTag is suitable for both vehicle mounting and track-mounted applications. The CableTag combines advanced features and a small, light design to provide customers with a highly cost efficient solution.

The S1470 CableTag is 2.45 GHz heavy-duty ID-tag, which is programmable via a serial interface. The CableTag is designed for applications where variable data from an external system needs to be stored in the tags memory. The data stored in the CableTag can be read by TagMaster’s range of RFID Readers.

In addition to identifying a train passing by, many railway applications need to transfer real-time information from the train to a trackside system, or vise versa. The CableTag makes this possible by enabling its programmable memory area to be dynamically updated via the serial interface. The CableTag can also be track mounted and connected to trackside systems. In this configuration, a train-mounted reader is able to read variable information in the CableTag and make this available to systems onboard the train.

TagMaster, www.tagmaster.com