Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

RFID (or Radio Frequency Identification) is a versatile tool in the vehicle telematics industry as it allows data to be passed from one place to another. The system passes information from a tag to a reader and has many uses in vehicle telematics from identifying a driver to taking the temperature inside a trailer, or even tracking trailers in a yard. There are two types of RFID tags, active and passive. Passive tags allow a reader to identify a tag when it moves into the reader’s electromagnetic field; it doesn’t have a battery so cannot transmit any data to the reader. However, Trakm8’s RFID tags are active (they have a battery in them) which allows them to send various types of data to the T8 or T8 Mini unit. This allows Trakm8 to put RFID to many different uses, including -Driver ID -Temperature monitoring -Asset monitoring