RFID tags have become increasingly popular and have quickly grown over the last couple of years as well as being widely used in various businesses and industries owing to their high versatility. These readers can be integrated with other tracking systems like barcodes to create a tailored solution and are widely used in inventory tracking, asset tracking and help to improve the business and organizational process. 

Here are a couple of ways how RFID tags are used in the transport sector in India. 

Ways to use RFID in the transport sector

RFID tags in India are widely used by the department of electronics and information technology as well as in providing technological solutions to Indian industries. Keeping this objective in mind the national RFID program project was started and implemented in Mumbai and this used RFID technology which supposedly was a huge advantage to the transportation sector. This technology came highly recommended by a committee as well as the ministry of road transportation and highway that ensured that all toll plazas have this type of innovative solution applied. 

Railways were the main means of transportation and so required special attention which is why RFID solutions were instilled for the automatic identification of wagons as well as enclosure of pilots. Each wagon was tagged at different yards and trackside readers were placed at different locations. This was used successfully by the government to tag all wagons at major stations and connect all nearby households in the city through this initiative. RFID was also used in sports, recreation, and several other industries with importance given to the transportation sector which was the core of the RFID industry. 

Among other uses, RFID is also widely used in convention halls, theme parks, concert venues, and more which use RFID-enabled wristbands to optimize the way they manage and plan events. These bands when tapped to a reader can grant them access to any event, venue, program, and managers can later on use this technology to see the interaction and popularity of each event, the time, or day people attended it, and much more. This allows them to gather statistical data and even track attendance, follow up with employees and get reviews and feedback for the events. 

The Takeaway

RFID has taken the world by storm and is used so much in daily life, inspite of some people not knowing what it’s used for. This technology helps make life easier, more efficient and allows managers and even leaders to track certain statistics and numbers which would otherwise take a very long time to do. This allows them to run each program successfully as well as sporting events and make sure that the decision they take or information they get each time is the right one. RFID comes with a lot of benefits and industries are slowly understanding the importance it provides them as well as the various uses it offers them to get ahead in the long run.