HK airport boosts traffic system

Asia Airfreight Terminal (AAT) at the Hong Kong International Airport has deployed a radio frequency identification (RFID)-based truck control system to monitor and manage traffic flow at two air-cargo terminals, reports RFID Journal.

AAT serves a number of airlines, offering physical cargo handling, documentation processing and other services.

The RFID-based truck control has system replaced an earlier less-efficient smart card system that AAT had developed in 2001.

Kenya Shippers Council (KSC) has written to the tax authority seeking for a meeting to iron out challenges arising from the electronic cargo tracking system, states The Daily Nation.

The electronic cargo tracking system uses RFID technology to secure transit cargo.

Though it expressed support for the system's principle as it tries to reduce costs in terms of cargo loss through diversion, pilferage and eliminating physical escort of trucks, the KSC says the manner of introduction had raised many concerns such as the high cost of the RFID devices.

Australian technology firm Wi Protect is bidding to win New Zealand's first real-time tracking contract for hospitals, which will see patients, staff and medical equipment at North Shore Hospital electronically tagged and traced, says Stuff.co.nz.

The company has installed a theatre patient and equipment tracking system at Royal Melbourne Hospital in what is said to be Australia's first deployment of the technology.

The tracking technology is a mix of active RFID and ZigBee - an open-access protocol for the wireless transfer of data.