British Red Cross plan to deploy RFID technology

The British Red Cross has begun piloting a radio frequency identification system at its Bristol warehouse and London headquarters, in order to identify equipment used during emergency-response scenarios around the world. Approximately 500 assets, such as laptops, satellite telephones, forklifts, vehicles and generators, are being fitted with passive ultrahigh-frequency UHF RFID tags that will be read via handheld readers as the items are sent into the field for use by Red Cross volunteers, and again when they are returned. If the British Red Cross determines that the technology works effectively, the agency plans, by January 2014, to begin deploying the technology for field use by local supervisors, at emergency sites worldwide. The organization expects to apply tags to about 5,000 assets at that time.

The solution will include UHF RFID tags affixed to assets, handheld readers deployed at emergency sites, and management software running on the British Red Cross' own server to remotely identify who has which equipment at sites throughout the world.

British Red Cross plan to deploy RFID technology

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