Largest Deployed Passive RFID Pilot Worldwide in the Air Cargo Industry Improves Quality and Lowers Costs
Lufthansa Cargo and Mojix® today announced the successful completion of a pilot deployment of the MOJIX STAR™ passive RTLS (Real Time Location System) system. This RFID installation at the Lufthansa Cargo Center in Frankfurt, Germany is the largest scale such pilot application of passive RFID to date in the air cargo industry. Lufthansa Cargo is testing this innovative technology to locate single cargo shipments, pallets and containers on a real-time basis enabling better control of loading and shipping processes, sustained improvement in efficiency and quality of processes, and reduced costs. After extensive tests and simulations Lufthansa Cargo will apply this new solution in a set of real processes, to be followed by a fully deployed pilot installation integrated into all real processes of Lufthansa Cargo in Frankfurt.
"Lufthansa Cargo proves again its leadership in deploying innovative technologies", says Karl-Heinz Köpfle, Board Member Operations at Lufthansa Cargo. "Our target is to integrate the RFID technology into our handling processes to increase the reliability of loading and transport processes. The tracking of air cargo processes in real-time in large facilities is a real competitive advantage for Lufthansa Cargo. We want to pass these new improvements and benefits of automated RFID based data exchange on to our customers in the near future."
"We are very pleased to partner with Lufthansa Cargo in their industry leading RFID initiative to realize new benefits from innovative technology" says Dr. Ramin Sadr, CEO & Founder, Mojix Inc. "Our RFID solution demonstrates how breakthrough technology can support higher efficiency processes for our customers."
The Mojix STAR system offers the advantages of compliance with a global tag standard as well as the capability to both read and locate RFID tags. Any passive UHF tag based on the global standard EPC Gen2 can be used. These standard EPC tags cost only a few Eurocents and are as thin as a sheet of paper. The Mojix technology enables reading of passive RFID tags and retrieves information about the location of the tag and thus the location of the associated cargo shipment. Contrary to conventional passive RFID systems, that typically can only identify tags at pre-defined choke-points, the Mojix system can locate passive tags within a very large coverage area with accuracy of about 1 Meter. This technology enables use of RFID for more effective location of goods, more precise aggregation of pallets of good and assets, and improved accuracy in track and trace processes.
Lufthansa Cargo AG
Lufthansa Cargo ranks among the world’s leading cargo carriers. In the 2009 financial year, the airline transported around 1.5 million tonnes of freight and mail and clocked up 7.4 billion revenue tonne-kilometres. The Company currently employs about 4,500 people, worldwide. Lufthansa Cargo focuses on the airport-to-airport business. The cargo carrier serves some 300 destinations in 90 countries with its own fleet of freighters, the belly capacities of Lufthansa’s passenger aircraft and an extensive road services network. The bulk of the cargo business is routed through Frankfurt Airport. Lufthansa Cargo is a wholly-owned Lufthansa subsidiary. In the 2009 financial year, it posted revenues totalling 1.9 billion euros.
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