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SBB CFF FFS Cargo begins the installation of devices RFID on own railway wagons
They will be equipped about 5.000 cars of the 6,700 total ones of the company
November 14, 2016
Railway society Helvetic SBB CFF FFS Cargo is equipping own fleet of railway wagons of devices RFID, installation that it will begin in these days and it will be concluded at the end of 2017 when they are equipped about 5.000 cars goods of the 6,700 total ones of the company.
System RFID (radio-frequency identification) works with a system of reading situated on the railroads that transmit electromagnetic waves and with a dispositive RFID placed on the wagon goods that reflects the waves and can therefore be identified from the system. On every wagon two devices will be installed.
The system of reading on the railroads reports in which moment a wagon is journeyed and the relative data to the railway wagon recorded in the system customers allow to know also what transports the wagon. With technology RFID, the system automatically transfer in place of cargo information on the disposition of the wagons or generate an arrival warning and of departure every qualvolta a customer wishes to be informed on the arrival of a train.
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Railway society Helvetic SBB CFF FFS Cargo is equipping own fleet of railway wagons of devices RFID, installation that it will begin in these days and it will be concluded at the end of 2017 when they are equipped about 5.000 cars goods of the 6,700 total ones of the company.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
