Colombian logistics and security firm deploys RFID-based information solution

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(2006), "Colombian logistics and security firm deploys RFID-based information solution", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 78 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2006.12778eab.011

Colombian logistics and security firm deploys RFID-based information solution

Colombian logistics and security firm deploys RFID- based information solution

Keywords: Shipping, Water transport engineering, Cargo boats

To enhance visibility, management and security of Colombian container shipments, Emprevi Ltda. is deploying Savi Technology's SmartChain Transportation Security Solution (TSS), which leverages real-time information from active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies. By providing Emprevi with value-added services for its customers, Savi TSS will help Emprevi to generate new business opportunities and enable its customers to cut costs, improve inventory management, decrease safety stock, and reduce the potential for drug trafficking and smuggling, theft, loss, or terrorist intrusions.

Emprevi Ltda. (Empresa de Prevencion y Vigilancia Ltda.) is a Colombia-based provider of logistics and security services for importers and exporters, including major US-based public companies in the pharmaceutical and healthcare, consumer product goods, food and beverage, transportation and logistics services industries. Emprevi plans to integrate Savi TSS into a new Emprevi service offering called, “Global Trade Control,” which will provide its clients with continuous online monitoring of cargo containers and their contents, and rapid detection and deterrence of potential security breaches.

Beyond tracking container movements within Colombia, Emprevi plans to extend end-to-end visibility of these shipments by linking their service with SaviTrak, the global information service provided by Savi Networks. SaviTrak provides real-time, information services on the location, security and integrity of containerised cargo shipments as they move throughout a global network of RFID- enabled ports and inter-linked supply chain checkpoints.

The Savi Regional Cargo Visibility and Security Network, powered by Savi TSS, will provide Emprevi's customers in Colombia with real-time information of RFID-tagged containers that are transported by truck or rail to and from Distribution Centers in Cali and the Port of Buenaventura, which handles a large portion of Colombia's foreign trade volume. Plans call for extending Savi TSS through Emprevi's Global Trade Control offering to additional clients and facilities in Colombia.

Savi TSS is based on RFID technology and software solutions developed since 1989 that have successfully tracked more than 1.5 million shipments in real-time. Savi TSS includes the Savi Transportation Security Application, a rule-driven, event and process management software application integrated with Savi's SmartChain Enterprise Platform. Savi TSS produces state and exception reporting that is essential to ensure that containers and cargo have not been tampered with, and can incorporate data fed from a variety of Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC) devices, such as RFID, electronic seals, biometrics, sensors, and global positioning tracking systems (GPS).

Savi Technology's active RFID devices are based on ISO 18000-7 standards operating at 433.92MHz, and the company is actively involved with the maritime industry to further develop standards for container tracking and security. Savi's solutions are built on an open technology platform accommodating multiple and interoperable AIDC technologies used to track items, carton, pallets, containers, and transport vehicles such as trucks, ships and rail cars.