Tires are supposed to leave tracks – not track us.

RFID can in NO way be used to TRACK anything. It merely reads the information that is contained on the device. Keep in mind that RFID is a relatively short-range technology. You can't put a tag on a tire, put the tire on a vehicle, and then read that tag as the vehicle is driven from one place to another.

You need a GPS to track. Suppose someone did want to track the movement of a tire. They can scan the RFID, then IF there is a GPS device on the vehicle, only then can it be tracked in real time.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services is one of the leading transportation and logistics companies of the U.S. To keep this leadership position, the company invests in new technology and innovations in transportation and logistics field. Today there is an aggressive thrust on RFID research and development in logistics, supply chain management, and tracking. The efficient implementation of RFID technology in J.B. Hunt logistics will benefit the company to stay ahead of the pack in the transportation sector. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. An RFID tag is an object that can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification using radio waves. In this case, we will be applying RFID technology to tires so that J.B. Hunt can have a better management of their tire system. The tire system management can be articulated as providing the tire management team with accurate information about the tire inventory at each Terminal/Maintenance facility and also the pressure on each tire of every truck at any given time. J.B. Hunt Transport Services is in need for a RFID system design. The system design includes defining the hardware and software architecture, components, modules, and interfaces for implementing RFID in their tire tracking management system. Along with a tire tracking system, J.B Hunt, is also interested to implement a pressure reading technology to their system. The Senior Vice-President at Information Systems Department at J.B. Hunt, Ken Mangold is working closely with the University and willing to provide necessary information and support material regarding the project.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services currently has no means of tracking tires, in addition their measures of reading tire pressures are inefficient and time consuming. In order to measure the pressure of each tire they must send a technician to visit each truck and manually read the pressures. The company also suffers from a wide extent of theft of new tires by truck drivers. When brand new tires have been placed on trucks, there is no guarantee that these same tires will remain on the truck. Often, the brand name tires that were placed on the truck are replaced by a used, lower quality, and unknown brand tires. To prevent this problem a tire tracking system can be very helpful. The next cost mounting event happens with tire warranties. All tires are purchased with at least a 10,000 mile warranty. The company hardly ever benefits from the warranty because of the lack of information about each tire. Safety measures are considered when a tire is not inflated to the standard pressure level. If the tire pressure is low, a tire might explode and become hazardous on the road. Every business wants their product to be transported in a safe truck with good tires. The amount of dollars that is being lost everyday can also hurt the company in the long run.

Can RFID Be Used to Track the Movements of Goods Across the Country? .

Radio frequency identification can be used to monitor the movements of goods across the country. Keep in mind that RFID is a relatively short-range technology. You can't put a tag on a pallet and then read that tag as the pallet is driven on a truck from one place to another. Typically, RFID tags are attached to products and then, once those goods are loaded onto a truck, the tags are read and associated with a specific vehicle bound for a particular destination. When the goods arrive, the tags are interrogated and a central database is updated, indicating the goods arrived at the new location.

If there is a GPS device on a truck, the vehicle and the goods it is carrying can be tracked in real time. Sometimes, there is an RFID reader on the truck that will read temperature-sensing tags, and this information can be communicated via GSP. So if the temperature increases within the truck compartment, an alert will be sent to the central station.

The important thing to understand is that RFID is a truly automatic identification technology. As goods are shipped to or arrive at any location, one need not spend a lot of time and labor to count items or scan bar codes. The data can be captured automatically, making it possible to collection information about billions of items moving through thousands of locations, with very little additional labor.

Your Nissan Mexicana has been located. How dare you post facts! Now you're gonna make Parsons cry.

The Illinois Tollway uses a 915 MHz passive RFID for electronic toll collection. The range is about 40 feet.

The RFID device itself is about the size of a roll of quarters.

I don’t understand how Deckard and hondo can be so stupid about the functions of a RFID....what it can do and cannot do. Well, never mind. on second thought, I can.