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Atlas Cold Storage Warms Up To RFID By Mary Catherine O'Connor
March 14, 2006
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At the start of this year, another 200 Wal-Mart suppliers were expected to start RFID-tagging cartons and pallets of their products set for delivery to the retailer's RFID-enabled distribution centers in Texas. One logistics provider—food industry warehousing and distribution services company Atlas Cold Storage—is providing the tagging as part of its service to one of those suppliers.
Atlas believes its customers' RFID adoption has created a new area where it can provide services. For more than eight weeks, the company has been testing a new system to tag shipments for one of its largest ice cream manufacturer clients in order to meet Wal-Mart's tagging mandates.
To that end, Atlas turned to Ship2Save, a Montreal-based RFID services company. Ship2Save provided a manual RFID tagging system using a single Psion Teklogix 7535 handheld computer with an AWID RFID interrogator (reader) added, a Printronix RFID tag printer-encoder, tag number management and database software and a PC. The services company developed the system, which uses Alien Technology's 96-bit EPC Gen 1 Class 1 tags.
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Mary Catherine O'Connor is the associate editor of RFID Journal and
RFIDJournal.com. She provides a wide variety of news and feature stories for
both the Web site and print magazine. Prior to joining RFID Journal in late
2004, O'Connor served as an associate editor with Modern Media Partners, the
media and events firm that produces many of RFID Journal's conferences and
educational seminars, including the annual RFID Journal LIVE! conference.
Before working for Modern Media, she worked as an editor and writer for a
range of magazines and Web sites devoted to adventure travel and outdoor
recreation.
